{"id":532,"date":"2025-12-04T14:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/?p=532"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:18:03","slug":"sharing-digital-innovation-highlights-from-our-staff-digital-network-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/2025\/12\/04\/sharing-digital-innovation-highlights-from-our-staff-digital-network-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Digital Innovation: Highlights from Our Staff Digital Network Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our latest Staff Digital Network meeting<\/strong> was all about practitioners sharing real classroom examples of how digital tools are enhancing learning and teaching<\/strong>. It was an inspiring evening filled with creativity, collaboration, and practical ideas to take back to schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Live from Blackburn PS: Coding Club in Action<\/mark><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We kicked off by joining the Digital Xtra Coding Club <\/strong>live at Blackburn Primary<\/strong>, where pupils from Blackburn<\/strong> and Murrayfield Primary<\/strong> showcased their work with the LEGO SPIKE Essentials kit<\/strong>. The girls spoke confidently about the skills they\u2019ve been developing – collaboration, communication, and problem-solving<\/strong> – and wowed us with their latest creation: a pinball machine complete with lights and a motor to release the ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Promethean ActivSuite in Practice<\/mark><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Next, Sam from Riverside PS<\/strong> shared her experience using the new Promethean ActivSuite software<\/strong>. She highlighted the Whiteboard feature, describing it as the perfect balance between the inbuilt panel whiteboard and ActivInspire – simpler than Inspire, and it saves directly to the laptop. Sam demonstrated how she annotates images, resizes content while keeping annotations, and uses the spinner tool on her laptop to create lists in advance – currently for her Advent Calendar pupil recipient. A fantastic example of making interactive teaching more efficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Creative Expression with Adobe Express<\/mark><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We then had examples of pupils using Adobe Express to express themselves digitally, at Winchburgh PS<\/a>, shared on behalf of Nicola. Highlights included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n