With the borders opening up Aussie trainers have been busy supporting schools around the country. Training highlights included a series of Minecraft sessions that Adrian ran in Western Australia and Paul’s Apple creativity sessions with the students at Holy Family Primary School in Adelaide. As the end of the year approaches, Aussie trainers’ schedules are jam packed
The high demand for training across Aotearoa has made for an action-packed month! Even though it’s been a crazy busy time, we’ve loved every minute. With our two newest trainers on board to help share the load, we’ve had a blast helping teachers integrate the latest digital tools into their classrooms and supporting education leaders
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It’s been an action-packed few weeks for Aussie trainers. Now borders are opening up again we’re traversing the travel lounges, treading the tarmac and jumping on planes to take tech training to even more schools and organisations around Australia. While Paul was running Apple workshops for secondary teachers across Queensland, Adrian, Sam and Glen caught
Delivering more tech training than ever before means more teachers and students are achieving more. We love that! And since our Kiwi-based trainers have been flat tack helping more and more schools, we have just hired two new recruits to our NZ team. Scottish-born, Tauranga-based Jim is a former high school maths teacher (minus the
Kickstarting the month was an exciting iPad masterclass, I hosted across the ditch in Auckland. Twenty keen primary and secondary school teachers seized the opportunity to explore the creative possibilities on iPad with me. It was awesome to see plenty of magical ‘aha’ moments amongst the keen primary and secondary school teachers who seized the
Last month was jam-packed with fun in-person events and workshops around the country. We also welcomed two new trainers to our growing team in Aotearoa who jumped in feet first to deliver their first ever UTB STEAM Camp! UTB’s Apple guru, Paul Hamilton kicked off July with an exciting iPad masterclass in the first week
The Aussie team have been out and about working with schools across Australia and around the globe this past term. Giving teachers coaching on how they can implement change and training in the tech tools that can be used in meaningful and powerful ways with students is the core of what we do. A great
