Category: Education

3 Ways to Jump Start Your Professional Development

We’ve all rocked up to a professional development session doubting it would deliver what we needed. But with the right mindset you can get the most out of PD no matter the context.  Get your head back in the game with these top tips and before you know it, you’ll feel that exhilarating passion for

Add a Dynamic Soundtrack to Storytelling

Take your digital storytelling to the next level by giving your students the opportunity to create custom, dynamic soundtracks for their stories.  Perhaps a story calls for a suspenseful musical composition or an upbeat soundtrack. Setting the scene is easy with Garage Band, the ideal tool to create a soundtrack that compliments your students’ writing

Screen Recordings: 3 Good Reasons You Should be Using Them

Over the past year education methods have undergone a radical transformation thanks to Covid. Overnight (quite literally!), many teachers were forced to radically change the way they delivered the curriculum.  Without the luxury of face to face contact, teachers had to find new ways to connect with students and new ways to deliver differentiated, personalised

Fake News and Getting Google Search to Work For You Ep 27

Get Notified Of Future Episodes: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcast | Stitcher | TuneIn + Alex | Podcast Addict | Podchaser | Deezer | Listen Notes In this Episode: To see all the OutClassed episodes go to utb.fyi/outclassed Podcast Episode Highlights: Coming Resources and links mentioned: Transcript: Mike Reading 0:19 Hey, welcome back

Google Drawings Top Tips

  With Google Drawings a lot of people don’t realise that it actually sits inside Google Docs. Inside Google Docs you actually have the Google Drawings tool. Under insert you’ve got Drawings and now there are two places that you can get a Drawing from. The ‘New’ is going to open up and what you

How to video broadcast inside a channel on the Teams iPad App

 With Google Drawings a lot of people don’t realise that it actually sits inside Google Docs. Inside Google Docs you actually have the Google Drawings tool. Under insert you’ve got Drawings and now there are two places that you can get a Drawing from. The ‘New’ is going to open up and what you

Curriculum Mapping: A Design Thinking Approach Part I

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

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