Georgina Dean
Georgina's Sessions
One of these three workshops will be repeated on both days, depending on interest.
Turn Your Primary Classroom into a Collaborative Learning Hub
Calling all Primary Teachers!!! This workshop is perfect for teachers who know Google Workspace apps, but aren't sure where to start with a classroom full of children with 1:1 Chromebooks. Whether you're a primary school teacher familiar with or brand new to Google Workspace—or just looking for creative and interactive ways to integrate technology into your lessons—this interactive workshop is designed for YOU!
You’ll build practical skills and confidence to transform your primary classroom into a vibrant learning hub using Google apps creatively, making your life easier and your students' learning more engaging. Here’s a sneak peek: master the art of creating assignments, collecting student work, and providing effective feedback; discover fun and interactive activities for students to write stories, design presentations, and express themselves visually across various subjects; foster teamwork, communication, and peer learning in your classroom; utilise Forms to create interactive activities to assess student progress and understanding (but in a fun and engaging way!); and learn how to leverage Workspace tools to cater to diverse learning styles and abilities within your classroom.
Expressive Learning with Creativity
How often is learning expressed in meaningful ways across your teaching and learning practice? Adobe Express is a digital creativity tool that gives you and your students the creative freedom to share your educational journeys in personalised ways, making it easy to spark the candle-of-curiosity and foster a connected community, by harnessing the power of creative storytelling. In this workshop, you’ll discover some impactful storytelling techniques, from creating your own personal brand and supporting your students to build theirs, to vividly sharing these stories through video, to using Adobe’s NEW Animate from Audio tool, as well as using Adobe’s NEW Generative AI integration called Firefly to bring the magic of storytelling to life! Whether you’ll be taking for your first risks at trying to create digitally for the first time, or you’re a media specialist, there’s always a new layer of imagination to experience.
A Sketchnoting Masterclass for Educators
Have you ever tried to harness the creative power of those doodles found on the corners of your student workbooks or assignments? If a sketchnote-a-day, engages learning in every way, then this session is just what you’re looking for to build doodling into your lesson delivery! Sketchnoting is about expressing ideas creatively, in meaningful ways that help learners make connections and retrieve information. This workshop will explore what the science says about the power of sketchnoting. We’ll introduce the basics of sketchnoting, and then explore various mastery elements — such as containers, connectors, expressions, and daily doodles— which will all boost your sketchnoting skills and unleash your students creative note taking abilities. Whether you’re just beginning your sketchnoting journey, or you’ve been dabbling for years, you’re sure to find a creative-gem to add your sketchnoting toolkit.