Author: Kelly Kenyon

Getting Started in AI with Students

Using AI with students is a daunting endeavor, especially when thinking about where to start. This blog post offers a roadmap for getting started with AI in your classrooms and using the platform Magic School AI.  As IT leads, we know the importance

Creating Flowcharts in Canva

Make your Flowcharts stand out with Canva Everyone loves a good flowchart to help productivity or to understand processes around the workplace. Still, far too often I am left disappointed by the lack of wow or confusing graphics with many

Using the Scratch Backpack in the Classroom

Take your Scratch builds to the next level with the Backpack feature Often, we want our students to code in Scratch, but we don’t want to have to waste valuable learning time finding or recreating all the elements they need

Introducing Chromebook Screencast

Introducing Chromebook Screencast

Screen recording is now a native tool inside the Chromebook  Screen recording is one of those tools that can be used by teachers and students in a variety of ways to help impact teaching and learning. Chromebooks now have a

Introducing Google Classroom Class Visit

Visit another person’s Google Classroom or give visiting rights to a reliever for a few hours.   Class Visit in Google Classroom is a new feature that allows you to have temporary access to another person’s Google Classroom in your school  

Introducing Practice Sets for Google Classroom

Save time and let Google find helpful resources for you  We all know that teachers are time poor, finding and making resources to help students understand concepts independently can be time consuming. Let Google take some of that workload and

The Magic of Mark-up for Photos

Use your photos app for more than just a standard image.  One of the great, yet under-utilised, features of an iPad is its ability to Markup photos. This is a great tool for teachers to use in their classrooms to

Maximise Engagement with Addons in Google Classroom

Stop the tab attack. Assign your students tasks from other apps to complete inside the Google Classroom tab, using addons.  Google Classroom provides a great environment for teaching and learning. But many of the activities we use to help embed

Using a Chromebook Touchpad

Master the Chromebook touchpad and get the most out of your device.  Are you new to a Chromebook, or are you confused by the touchpad gestures? Whether you have no idea how to right-click on the Chromebook or want to

Using Canva and QR codes to Enhance Learning

Canva and QR codes are a match made in heaven. QR codes are not a new concept thanks to Covid-19 and tracking apps, but have you ever thought of using them in the classroom? As a quick and easy way

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