EdTech Training
Enabling the digital storyteller (2.5 hours)
“Humans have been telling stories for thousands of years and these stories help people to connect, learn, share culture, ideas, values and history. They create a sense of belonging that unites.
The 21st Century has provided us with a host of tools to make these stories digital with drawings, photos, spoken word and video that can be combined to share a narrative. So why not put your students ideas and passion for technology to good use and bring an age-old practice into the modern world.”
You will explore: A comic strip creator, Adobe Spark and Flipgrid.
Fast, free, formative assessment (2.5 hours)
“Learn to find and create fast assessment resources in Forms, Kahoot & Quizlet. ideal for the busy teacher.”
Hands-on with a range of formative assessment tools including Forms, Kahoot and Quizlet
Adobe Spark Post (1 hour)
“Take a step to becoming a creative teacher. Unleash your creativity and make eye-catching graphics to use in websites, videos, social media or printed material."
You will explore Adobe Spark Post and create your choice of a Classroom Banner, Flyer or Video Graphic.
Adobe Spark Page (1 hour)
“Take a step to becoming a creative teacher. Unleash your creativity and create a single page website to support your students"
You will explore Adobe Spark Page to create a webpage for your teaching.
Adobe Spark Video (1 hour)
“Take a step to becoming a creative teacher. Unleash your creativity and create a short video to introduce a topic or welcome video for your class"
You will explore Adobe Spark Video to create a welcome video for your class or introduce a new concept.
Differentiation with Quizlet (1 hour)
“Learn how quickly you can create differentiated material for your students that work in both classroom based and remote teaching. You will leave the session having created 7 different games by typing just a few words about a topic of your choice."
You will explore the free features in Quizlet, the library of resources and Quizlet live games to engage your learners.
Quizlet Premium features (1 hour)
“Take Quizlet further, creating differentiated material for your students that work in both classroom based and remote teaching. "
You will explore the premium features in Quizlet, the library of resources and Quizlet live games to engage your learners.
Add this session to the beginners session for a thorough exploration of a great assessment tool.
Twitter for Education (1 hour)
"Take the fear out of social media and build your Personal Learning Network"
You will create an account, learn good twitter practice, following others, retweet, search using #Hashtags, add pictures and photos to your tweets.
Riding the Wakelet Wave (1 hour)
"Curating and sharing collections of your favourite resources has never been easier. Wakelet can bring together files from YouTube and your Drive Docs, Images, Videos, text, links and Tweets all in one place. Take a look at how students can use Wakelet, we will explore this further in the session"
You will create and share your first collection and learn how to work in shared spaces and with templates.
Nearpod (1 hour)
"Nearpod makes every lesson interactive with quiz questions, matching pairs, polls, draw it and fill the blanks type activities"
You will create a simple lesson adding several of these features to build in engaging lessons for your students
Nearpod (2 hours)
"Nearpod makes every lesson interactive with quiz questions, matching pairs, polls, draw it and fill the blanks type activities and content such as Sway, Nearpod 3d and VR"
You will create a simple lesson adding activities and content to build in engaging lessons for your students
Flipgrid (1 hour)
Description: "Empower student voice like you have never done before. Start video discussion threads in this simple, free and accessible tool that really builds community. "
You will explore how other educators are using Flipgrid, create your first FlipGrid and Flip Hunt treasure trail activity.
Screen Recorders Demystified (2 hours)
“Explore the difference between 3 popular screen recorders and how you might use them for teaching and learning,"
You will create and edit a screencast using Screencastify, trim and either save to your Google Drive or YouTube.