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Accessing Edinburgh Learns
This Digishort is for Edinburgh education staff.It shows how you can access the Edinburgh Learns site for staff. The Edinburgh Learns Site is a secure area where schools can access policies, procedures and resources to support learning and teaching. Watch the video
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Merry Christmas Everyone
In this Christmas Cracker pupils will learn how to create a version of the Shakin’ Stevens hit ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ in GarageBand. Watch the video. There are additional resources to support you and your learners completing this Christmas Cracker, you can download it by clicking the link below. Merry Christmas Everyone – Pages file Download…
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Animating Fairy Lights
In this Christmas Cracker pupils will learn how to use the drawing tools in Keynote and create an animation effect. Watch the video. Please do feel free to share any of your pupils’ creations with us on this Padlet!
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Christmas Cracker: Pixel Pictures
In this Christmas Cracker, we’ll use tables in Keynote to create Christmas pixel pictures This video shows you the steps of changing colours in table cells to create a pixel image. Additionally it will discuss the navigation of A1 Spreadsheet cell notation where instructions can be followed to create different images. Watch the video Resources…
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Digital Advent Calendars
In this Christmas Cracker pupils will learn how to use a variety of Keynote functions including: links, animations, shapes, formatting tools, and more. Learners have the opportunity to create their own digital advent calendar. The video example looks at creating one with twenty-four days, but learners can make smaller countdowns. Watch the video. Please do…
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Teaching and Learning with Minecraft Education – Recording of Online CLPL
What happens when you mix one of the world’s most popular games with the serious business of teaching and learning? You get a training session that’s as fun as it is forward‑thinking. Our recent Teaching and Learning with Minecraft Education CLPL virtually brought together colleagues from across the City of Edinburgh Council to explore how…
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Supporting Reluctant Writers with Voice Memos and Pages
This DigiTip shows how to use Voice Memos to record and transcribe ideas. This feature is available on Gen 10 (P7) and Gen 11 (P6) iPads. This feature can allow learners to use their voice to create written content. You can record your voice in Pages, Numbers and Keynote or dictate text but you are…
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Digital Conference 2025
Behind the scenes, this years’ Edinburgh Learns Digital Conference was a little different for us all. Not only did we celebrate the vast and dynamic digital teaching and learning that goes on in our Edinburgh schools, network with over 130 Digital Learning Coordinators, and hear from experts far and wide… but we were also able…
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Zoomania: Maths Week Scotland Live Lesson
We kicked off the 2025-26 run of Live Lessons with our first ever collaboration with Edinburgh Zoo as part of Maths Week Scotland! This year’s theme was Wild Maths, and everyone who joined us this time used problem solving skills to build an app on Keynote, building in images from the zoo enclosures and using the…
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Using Sketchbook as a Formative Assessment Tool
This DigiTip shows how to use a feature hidden within Sketchbook that can be used as a formative assessment or modelling tool: time-lapse! It can be a great tool to support creative and quick formative assessment in your classroom. You can: Watch the video
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Sketchbook Top Tips
It sounds obvious, but have you considered using Sketchbook for your schools’ entries for the 2025 JCDecaux competition? The thought of digital drawing can make a lot of people/artists shudder, but when you think of it as another media choice, and begin to understand the endless opportunities to discover new textures and mark-making, as well…
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Using Groups in Class Notebook
This Digitip shows how to use the Group Distribution function in OneNote ClassNotebook. A great tool to support differentiation in your classroom. Watch the video
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Exit tickets using OneNote
In this Digitip, you will learn how to create exit tickets in OneNote. OneNote has many options for creating exit tickets as well as options for how pupils can input their answers. In this video we have a look at the different ideas and how they can be used in class. Recorded on iOS Watch…
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Empowered Learning @ Carrick Knowe
In June 2024 we published this video showcasing how Empowered Learning iPads were being used to support learning and teaching throughout the school at Carrick Knowe Primary School. Please contact us if you are an Edinburgh school who would like to showcase your good practice in a similar fashion.
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Using Microsoft Reflect via a Browser
In this Digitip, you will learn how to access the tools of Microsoft Reflect through the browser. This makes it ideal for younger learners who can still take part in Reflect check-ins by scanning a QR code instead of having to sign-in to Teams. The Digitip also explores how you can access all the Mindfulness…
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Minecraft Education Build League Finals Day
The most wonderful day of the year has arrived, no not the first day of the summer holidays… The Minecraft Education Build League Finals Day! Monday 16th of June 2025 saw twenty-eight young people from seven CEC schools descend on the National Museum of Scotland for an in-person Minecraft challenge like no other. The day…
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Create, Rename and Save a QR using Shortcuts
I don’t know about you but when I create a QR code it is only every used once because I can’t rename it. This QR code generator using Apple Shortcuts, allows you to write a short script that creates a QR code from the clipboard or runs from the share sheet in Safari. It will…
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Using the Book & Quill for Writing tasks in Minecraft Education
In this Digitip, you will learn how to use the Book & Quill for Writing tasks in Minecraft Education. This creates an immersive writing opportunity for learners to explore a Minecraft Education world or task, which can then be exported to a PDF to save in Files or Class Notebook. Recorded on iOS 18.4.1 Watch…
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Saving Webpages as PDFs
In this Digitip, you will learn how to save webpages as PDFs. This makes it a useful tool in building a bank of study material which you can save to your OneDrive, Class Notebook or Files app. Recorded on iOS 18.4.1 Watch the video.
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Why Creating Apps is a Powerful Learning Activity
As teachers, we often ask pupils to produce something that demonstrates what they’ve learned about a topic. These might include posters, mind maps, videos, models, illustrations and podcasts. All of these are valuable activities. But there’s another product you could ask learners to create. One that allows them to demonstrate what they have learned in…
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