Category: Live Lessons
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Patterns in History: From Past to Present
Along with providing CLPL for our teachers in the form of Live Lessons, our team here at Edinburgh Learns Digital like to make connections with local places that our young people can explore for free in their own time. Last week saw the beginnings of a new friendship with the National Museum of Scotland. They…
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Safer Internet Day 2025
Given that Safer Internet Day falls on the February break for us here in Edinburgh, we wanted to make sure that our learners still had the opportunity to join in, and they really did – over 200 classes across the city! The theme this year is Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from…
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Live Lesson: Autumn Animation
As winter approaches and the nights grow longer and darker, we found a delightful way to lift our spirits and bid farewell to autumn: an Autumn Animation live lesson! Over 1,000 enthusiastic learners joined us from their cozy classrooms to craft their own autumn animation masterpieces. Using Keynote, students were guided through the process of…
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Celebrating Eurovision with Apple’s Numbers: Live Lesson
Calling all Spacemen, Divas and Heroes! Eurovision season is upon us with Swedish city of Malmö hosting after Loreen stormed to victory in Liverpool in 2023. The excitement has travelled as far as Edinburgh with learners in our primary schools getting involved in the musical buzz that the annual song contest brings. Learners in our…
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Spring with Sketchbook: Live Lesson
To coincide with the day Spring finally arrived in Scotland, the team at Edinburgh Learns Digital were streamed live into classrooms across the city, supporting over 1200 Primary school pupils to creatively use the Sketchbook app to connect with nature, exploring stylised drawing and using technology to support them. Spring with Sketchbook consisted of two…
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Burns Goes Digital Live Lesson
This month we celebrated Burns Night with a series of digital live lessons centred on using apps such as Pages, Keynote and GarageBand. Learners had the chance to create some original Scots poetry, a piece of Scots music, and pair this with a moving haggis animation. Teachers were welcomed to an information session where the…
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Christmas AR
This week we ran a live lesson focusing on learners creating scenes in Augmented Reality (AR). The lesson itself was based on creating a Christmas scene, which was fun to do at this time of year, but the children also learned how to use AR to enhance their learning and support their literacy, numeracy, critical…
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