Are you looking for ways to encourage creativity in the writing process? Are you working with younger students and wondering how iPads could be used meaningfully? Explore ideas that allow younger students to draw and tell their stories and stitch ideas together with the Clips app. Capture their thinking and develop their oral language skills - all while having fun!
In this session you will learn how drawing can be a valuable teaching and learning tool in many curriculum areas. You will learn how drawing can be scaffolded for all learners, drawing over photos as a guide. You will learn how to use layers and animations to bring drawing to life for storytelling or to show knowledge and understating of concepts.
Not all musical compositions involve writing chord progressions and melodies. This hands-on immersive session will introduce sampling and looping as an alternative method to traditional music composition. In addition to creating in GarageBand, you will gain an insight into how to smash your creation with Keynote and iMovie.
If you’ve ever wondered how you can create effective and relevant animations that help explain curriculum concepts, this is the session for you. Using the life cycle of a water bottle as part of the Science curriculum as a basis, participants will learn how to create visually impressive animations in Keynote with audio narration and text to enhance classroom activities.
The iPad has evolved to become a multimedia behemoth, and we can utilise this to create engaging multimedia eBooks. During this session you will learn how to incorporate animations from Keynote and music from GarageBand into a Pages document, and export your final product into an eBook, viewable on all platforms. This skill can be used by teachers and students to create engaging pieces of text, digital portfolios or curriculum documents.
Encouraging and allowing creativity as part of a presentation tool can be an essential part of the teaching and learning process. In this session we will have a look at how to use common apps in a variety of ways to showcase student learning.
This session is aimed at educators who are curriculum leaders in their school. We explore key elements of leadership and learning, to leverage the technology in learning and teaching and consider strategies that drive and shape innovation in your school.
