It’s been a tough term with extended lockdowns across the country. We hope the holidays have given you some respite from the pressures of the lockdown juggle, and have seized the opportunity to refresh and refuel for the final sprint to the summer holidays! We’ve included some bright ideas to ease your lockdown load and
Spring is here and after these school holidays, we’ll be on the homeward stretch to Christmas! With the country in lockdown over the past month or so our trainers have been busy! To ease the load and seize the opportunity to turn lemons into lemonade, we offered teachers around New Zealand and across the ditch FREE
This month we continue to share our top tips, tricks, tools and resources that are bound to engage students and make you more efficient and creative in and out of the classroom. Content Overview 1 Tech Tools for Teachers: Bookmaking system, elink2 Trainer Tip: Apple Keynote3 Learn on Demand: Free 30 Day Access4 Lesson Planning
This month we continue to share our top tips, tricks, tools and resources that are bound to engage students and make you more efficient and creative in and out of the classroom. Content Overview 1 Tech Tools for Teachers: Bookmaking system, elink2 Trainer Tip: Apple Keynote3 Learn on Demand: Free 30 Day Access4 Lesson
Reflecting, evolving and innovating to create an even better experience for our teachers and their students is at the heart of why we exist. When we first created our newsletter back in 2018 it was jam-packed with useful tips, tricks and articles. Then along came Covid. Realising how much we missed the all-important personal connection
Reflecting, evolving and innovating to create an even better experience for our teachers and their students is at the heart of why we exist. When we first created our newsletter back in 2018 it was jam-packed with useful tips, tricks and articles. Then along came Covid. Realising how much we missed the all-important personal connection
Our trainers are asked frequently if we have a curriculum map linking Digital Technologies to other curriculum areas, across age groups and levels. The answer is yes, but not for you! Curriculum Mapping needs to be aligned with school wide strategy, values, community and more. There is no one size fits all. In order to create a meaningful, useful, relevant map that serves your learners many things must be considered. This blog series explores how you can do just that.
For the UTB Show’s final episode, we’ve pulled out all the stops by rounding up the whole UTB training team who share their favourite tech tools (cue delightful track “My Favourite Things” from The Sound of Music). These tools really are better than “raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens”! Each trainer gives a super
Different events, meetings, tasks and reminders appearing on different devices can be downright confusing, not to mention annoying. Operating multiple calendars on different platforms will inevitably result in missing important meetings and events. But there is an easy fix. There are many ways to sync Google Calendars and iCal so that all your devices are
G Suite users will sometimes be presented with a login challenge before they can access their account. This normally can be done by receiving a verification code on their phone, but sometimes this is not possible, such as with students. Employee IDs can be set in G Suite and then used for login challenges, even in the case where the users aren’t employees.
Here in New Zealand our Digital Technologies curriculum has only existed for a few years and has only been expected to be taught in schools since the beginning of 2020. Our trainers are asked frequently if we have a curriculum map linking Digital Technologies to other curriculum areas, across age groups and levels. The answer
Like all of you, the UTB team have had ‘same same, but different’ experiences of 2020. However, there is something that I know has sustained us all through the challenging times when ‘normal’ has seemed like a long lost memory. Our work with you.
Being able to connect with you, and continue to help you, through these times has truly been one of the joys of 2020. Thank you for that opportunity.
