Thinking Creatively: Leading Whole School Innovation

Virtual Event

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.

Free

GarageBand: Creating Compositions with Live Loops

Virtual Event

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.

Free

Telling Your Story with iMovie

Virtual Event

In this workshop we will learn how to use the features for movie creation in iMovie and get ideas for how those techniques can be used in creative ways to tell your story. We will also explore the various visual and auditory cues and the message they are telling.

Free

Keynote: Creative Observational Animations

Virtual Event

This task at its core is designed as an Observational Skills Project for students using Animation in Keynote with an optional integration of soundscapes in GarageBand. Students are required to marry their Metacognitive Skills with their Digital Technologies Skills to create, observe, interpret, recall, and display prior learning knowledge. There is some creative prep work for teachers in Pages, though if students use MacBooks or you would like to extend students’ creativity within this task, the students may engage this portion of the task in Pages.

Free

Creativity with Keynote in Special Education

Virtual Event

In this session, you will discover how students can use the Keynote app to express and share their learning in a range of creative ways. You will have the opportunity to explore some of the features of Keynote and will gain handy hints and tips for creating engaging and accessible activities for your students.

Free

Create, App Smash and Integrate with Clips

Virtual Event

In this session we will explore ways to redefine learning experiences with Clips by integrating drawings and animations created in Sketches School and Keynote. We will look at exporting and sharing content, tips and tricks, plus how we can weave different areas of learning through this workflow, using these amazing, open-ended apps.

Free

Pages: A Springboard for Creative Expression

Virtual Event

Come along to this session and learn how to utilise the functionality of Pages to build a scaffold that will capture the creative expression of what your students know, understand and can do. We will explore features that support teachers to intentionally design opportunities within a digital portfolio to make thinking visible in powerful ways that support differentiated instruction.

Free

Getting Creative with the Writing Process

Virtual Event

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!

Free

Creating a Multimedia eBook on iPad

Virtual Event

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.

Free

Podcasting with GarageBand: From Script to Stream

Virtual Event

In this workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of setting up a podcast using a range of recording equipment - from simple to a little more complex with multi-track recording. We will look at how to get started with scripting and generating effective artwork. We will also touch on the necessary requirements needed to publish to the Apple Podcasts service.

Free

Swift Playgrounds: Who Needs a Calculator?

Virtual Event

Swift Playgrounds on macOS and iPadOS is a great starting point to learn to code. In this session you will learn how to incorporate Swift Playgrounds into your lessons - it is an incredibly powerful programmable computer! See how to use Swift to model simple problems. Become aware of the role of Numbers alongside Swift Playgrounds to enhance student understanding.

Free

Leading Student Agency as STEM App Designers

Virtual Event

Students see solutions everywhere they go. They are often the most insightful problem finders and solvers we’ll meet. This session with provide free templates and workflows designed to deepen learning and empower and support teachers to structure problem based learning activities. The focus will be on social enterprise via app design.

Free
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