Adobe Acrobat for Administrators

Catholic Learning Online brings you Adobe Acrobat for School Administrators.

In today's digital era, efficient document management is crucial for educational institutions, and Adobe Acrobat is the leading solution for creating, editing, and sharing PDF documents. 

In this workshop by Dr Tim Kitchen from Adobe, we will explore a range of features and functionalities of Adobe Acrobat, empowering school administrators to streamline their document workflows and enhance productivity.

In this workshop, you will learn how to create professional-looking PDFs from various file formats, including Word documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Discover the power of editing and annotating PDFs, allowing you to make collaborative comments and revisions with ease. Requirements: Make sure you have install Adobe Acrobat in advance of this session.

Beyond Workspace - Let's explore Google Earth

Catholic Learning Online brings you Beyond Workspace - Let's explore Google Earth.

Bring the world inside your classroom!

In our modern, globally interconnected society, it is more important than ever that we understand the world around us. Google Earth and Google’s mapping tools aren’t just about geography. “Place” is universal, spanning disciplines, cultures, and nature, connecting us all to the surrounding world.

With Google Earth and mapping tools you can learn about diversity across biomes and cities, measure how a river has changed shape overtime, or create a project highlighting architectural styles across the ages. Using Google Earth and maps in classrooms can help visualize abstract concepts across a global canvas, allowing students to connect what they learn inside to what they experience in their daily lives, community, and to the larger world.

Our facilitator for this workshop is Chris Betcher from Google

Beyond Workspace - Let's explore Arts and Culture

Catholic Learning Online brings you Beyond Workspace - Let's explore Arts and Culture Google Arts & Culture: A Powerful Tool for Teaching! 

Google Arts & Culture is a free online platform that brings together art, history, and culture from around the world. The platform features high-resolution images, videos, and interactive exhibits from over 2,000 museums and cultural institutions. 

Google Arts & Culture can be used to teach students about art, history, science, and culture in a fun and engaging way. In this workshop, we will explore the different features of Google Arts & Culture and how they can be used to teach students. We will also share some examples of how teachers have used Google Arts & Culture in their classrooms. By the end of the workshop, participants will have a better understanding of how Google Arts & Culture can be used to meet their own teaching needs. 

Our facilitator is Chris Betcher from Google.

Google Fundamentals for Admin Staff Session 5

Catholic Learning Online brings you Google Fundamentals for Admin Staff. 

These sessions will provide Admin Staff with an opportunity for staff to engage with some of the Google Workspace for Education productivity tools. This session will be faciliatated by Chris Betcher from Google. 

Session Overview: During this session, you will explore how to become more efficient and effective using Google Sheets. 

Google Fundamentals for Admin Staff Session 4 

Catholic Learning Online brings you Google Fundamentals for Admin Staff. 

These sessions will provide Admin Staff with an opportunity for staff to engage with some of the Google Workspace for Education productivity tools. This session will be faciliatated by Chris Betcher from Google. 

Session Overview: During this session, you will explore how to become more efficient and effective using Google Forms and Sheets. 

Catholic Learning Online Summit 2023 

Acknowledgement of Country and Prayer 

Catholic Learning Online Summit 2023

Digitally enabled learning ecosystems

In this workshop we will explore what it means to build a digitally enabled learning ecosystem that connects learners to quality learning opportunities that include and go beyond learning in school. You will leave this session with an understanding of the elements and enabling factors of a digitally enabled learning ecosystem as well as a view into how we can use data to measure its health.

Presentation Slides

Catholic Learning Online Summit 2023 

Students' as Published Writers 

When students know they are writing and publishing their work to an authentic audience, they are driven to produce their best work. In this session, we discover the opportunities for students' writing to be published to an authentic audience via the SORA platform. We explore some strategies and processes and view some examples of published student work on SORA and hear from students and teachers about how it enhances their learning. 

Catholic Learning Online Summit 2023

Going further with AR

Explore the exciting possibilities of augmented reality (AR) and AR Makr in the classroom. Learn how AR can be used to demonstrate learning across the curriculum from literacy to Math to Science. Ignite their imaginations today!

Audience: Prep - Year 4 teachers

Catholic Learning Online Summit 2023 

Minecraft and Creativity 

In this session, Nathan will focus in particular on how Minecraft can be used to promote creativity in the classroom. We will explore ready-made activities (such as the Monthly Build Challenges), as well as strategies to adapt existing resources and create your own. Whether you are a new or experienced Minecraft teacher, you will leave the session with resources and ideas for enhancing creativity skills through the use of Minecraft in the classroom. 

Catholic Learning Online Summit 2023

Seesaw 101 - The Power of the Green Button

Hands-on learning is key to engaging students! Join the Seesaw Team to learn how to extend and expand on what students are already doing in your classroom with the meaningful integration of Seesaw. In this session, teachers will learn:

- How to navigate the Class Journal
- How teachers and students use the green +Add button

Presentation Slides

Catholic Learning Online Summit 2023

Learning design in a digitally enabled learning ecosystem

In this workshop we will explore different ways we can use the power of Google technology to design learning that engages, challenges and personalises learning for every student, wherever they are. We will look at the different variables we might consider around place, space, time, people and power when designing for learning in a digitally enabled context. You will leave this session with new ideas around how to leverage technology that is adaptive to individual learners and creates insights for educators.

Catholic Learning Online Summit 2023 

Creating video with Adobe Premiere Rush 

The importance of video as a form of communication is growing rapidly, to the point where it is becoming a crucial aspect of literacy. In today's world, being able to create high-quality videos is just as essential as being able to write an essay, a report, or a creative story. In this workshop conducted by Dr. Tim Kitchen from Adobe, participants will be guided through a step-by-step process to craft visually appealing video stories using Premiere Rush. To fully benefit from this session, ensure that you have Premiere Rush installed and readily available on your laptop, iPad, iPhone, or Android device. 

Catholic Learning Online Summit 2023 

Creativity with iPads and Mac 

Discover how to integrate creativity, design, and innovative learning experiences into your curriculum using iPad and Mac. Gain practical strategies and explore new ways to harness Keynote on iPad and Mac. Unleash your students' creative potential! Audience: Upper Primary to Secondary school teachers 

Catholic Learning Online Summit 2023

Creating apps using Microsoft PowerApps 

In this session, Steven will focus on how students can develop their coding and computational thinking through the development of apps using the Microsoft PowerApps studio. Steven will demonstrate how to create a basic navigational app and share ideas on how this task could be integrated across various subject areas. This session will be suitable to those with no coding skills

Catholic Learning Online brings you AI in education. Are you panicking yet?

An online seminar unpacking the current hype about AI in Education across the globe. The session will look beyond the immediate authorship concerns of tools such as ChatGPT towards the development of policy positions which address the longer term implications of the use of AI tools in teaching, learning and administration. This event will be an “In Conversation” session with Dan Ingvarson, Senior Technical Advisor to the EdSAFE AI Alliance.

Target Audience

School and system leaders responsible for shaping the strategic direction of teaching, learning and administration within K-12 Catholic Education.

Classroom teachers who are interested in the rapidly evolving conversation about AI and the opportunities and challenges that schools, systems and policy makers around the world are considering.

Catholic Learning Online brings you Learning with Vivi, the opportunity to make the most of the Vivi console in your Classroom

Learning Intention

In this session you will learn how to use Vivi to display learning resources in your classroom, including the use of a digital whiteboard.  The use of Student Control, Assessment and Polls will also be explored to further engage and assess students.

Success Criteria

You will know you are successful when:

• You can share your screen to explore resources, including the advantages of using Video mode.

• You can use the digital Whiteboard

• You can provide access to students to show their thinking to model sample responses and feedback opportunities.

• You can gather information formally and informally for assessment and engagement.

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

This workshop addresses the following Standard Descriptors:

• 2.1.2 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities.

• 2.6.2 Use effective teaching strategies to integrate ICT into learning and teaching programs to make selected content relevant and meaningful.

• 5.1.2 Develop, select and use informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative assessment strategies to assess student learning.

• 6.2.2 Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice targeted to professional needs and school and/or system priorities.

Catholic Learning Online brings you 'Moving from Lucidpublish to Lucidchart'.

In this session you will learn how to move documents from Lucidpublish so you can use them in Lucidchart

Catholic Learning Online brings you 'Moving from Lucidpublish to Lucidchart'.

In this session you will learn how to move documents from Lucidpublish so you can use them in Lucidchart

Catholic Learning Online brings you Google Fundamentals for Admin Staff.

These sessions will provide Admin Staff with an opportunity for staff to engage with some of the Google Workspace for Education productivity tools. This session will be faciliatated by Chris Betcher from Google. 

Session Overview

During this session, you will explore how to become more efficient and effective using Google Docs.

Catholic Learning Online brings you Google Fundamentals for Admin Staff.

This is the second session of two sessions for Admin Staff. These sessions will provide Admin Staff with an opportunity for staff to engage with some of the Google Workspace for Education productivity tools. This session will be faciliatated by Chris Betcher from Google. 

Session Overview

During this session, you will explore how to become more efficient and effective using Google Drive and some other productivity features in Google Workspace for Education.

You will learn how to:

• Navigate Google Drive efficiently and effectively

• Use Priority Drive and Shared Drives

Learning Intention

We are learning how to navigate Google Drive more effectively and explored other productivity tools

Success Criteria

We will know we are successful when we have developed a better understanding of how to navigate Google Drive and use other productivity tools

Catholic Learning Online brings you Formative Assessment: See student results in real time

Learning Intention

In this session you will learn how to use formative assessment tools to quickly get real time insight into student learning during your lessons.

Success Criteria

You will know you are successful when:

• You can create formative assessments in Lucid using visual activities

• You can access and analyze the data to drive your instruction moving forward

• You can create lessons that support both collaboration and independent thinking

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

This workshop addresses the following Standard Descriptors:

• 2.6.2 Use effective teaching strategies to integrate ICT into learning and teaching programs to make selected content relevant and meaningful

• 3.4.2 Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning

• 6.2.2 Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice targeted to professional needs and school and/or system priorities

Catholic Learning Online brings you "Microsoft 365 Learning Accelerators- Unlock the full potential of every student".

Microsoft Learning Accelerators is a new category of learning tools included in Microsoft 365 Education that helps streamline the creation, review, and analysis of practice assignments while providing students real-time coaching along the way to help them catch up, keep up, and get ahead.

This 1-Hour workshop showcases how the Learning Accelerators are designed to help educators unlock the full potential of every student with tools that support foundational and future-ready skills, allowing educators to give individual students more opportunities to learn, practice, and receive targeted coaching instantly in an inclusive environment to support ongoing improvement.

This session is perfect for classroom educators who are new or experienced users of Microsoft Teams for Education.

Learning Intention 

We are learning about tools within Microsoft Teams for Education that teachers may use to develop students';

• Reading fluency through individualized literacy instruction

• Ability to recognise and navigate their emotions with regular opportunities to share and be heard.

• Public speaking skills through real-time, individualized feedback

• Ability to develop information literacy skills through guidance and coaching to develop effective questions, search terms and evaluate reliable informaiton sources

Success Criteria

You will know you are successful when:

We will know we are successful when;

• We have developed a better understanding of what the Learning accelerator tools are capable of and how to use them productively in the classroom to enhance student learning.

• We have identified opportunities for the tools to be used as part of learning and put what we have learned into practice.

Catholic Learning Online brings you Encouraging creativity through small group collaboration [Lucid for Education]

Learning Intention 

In this session you will learn how to use Lucid for Education to encourage creativity through small group collaboration, as well as look through a variety of different examples of how to infuse student creativity into your curriculum.

Success Criteria

You will know you are successful when:

• You can use Lucidspark breakout boards to give students a collaborative workspace

• You can find templates to support student creativity

• You can identify areas in your curriculum that you can incorporate small group collaboration and creativity

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

This workshop addresses the following Standard Descriptors:

• 2.6.2 Use effective teaching strategies to integrate ICT into learning and teaching programs to make selected content relevant and meaningful

• 3.4.2 Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning

• 6.2.2 Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice targeted to professional needs and school and/or system priorities

Catholic Learning Online brings you STEM: Science and Logic [Lucid for Education]

Session Overview

Vanessa, from Lucid for Education, will be the facilitator for this session. During this session, you will explore the STEM and Logic toolkits in Lucid and learn how to use them effectively with your students.

Learning Intention

Participants will learn how students, using the STEM Toolkit,

• Create science diagrams to share their learning

• Create UML, Network, cloud infrastructure and other computer science diagrams

• Create electrical schematics, heating and plumbing diagrams

• Can visualize and analyze complex processes with Lucidchart

Success Criteria

You will know that you are successful when:

• You can access Lucidchart's shape library

• You can create science diagrams, technical diagrams and process maps 

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

This workshop addresses the following Standard Descriptors:

• 2.6.2 Use effective teaching strategies to integrate ICT into learning and teaching programs to make selected content relevant and meaningful

• 3.4.2 Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning

• 6.2.2 Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice targeted to professional needs and school and/or system priorities

Catholic Learning Online brings you "Using AI and ChatGPT to create, differentiate, give feedback and assess powerful learning opportunities for our students".

How can I use AI to help me teach?

How can I help students use AI ethically to improve their learning?

This session will explore AI, ChatGPT and other generative AI tool to answer these questions. We will discover how we can use these tools to help us to create, differentiate, give feedback and assess powerful learning opportunities for our students.

Who couldn't use a personal assistant?

This session is perfect for classroom educators who are new to generative AI tools like ChatGPT.

Learning Intentions

We are learning about AI tools that teachers and students may be using so that;

• We can use and benefit from the power of the AI tools

• We can develop an understanding of AI’s impact on the learning, teaching and assessment experiences in our schools

Success Criteria

We will know we are successful when;

• We have developed a better understanding of what the tools are capable of and how to use them productively

• We have explored the potential impact of AI on classroom practice and have ideas to move forward with.

Catholic Learning Online brings you an exciting primer for introducing entrepreneurial and design thinking skills into your classrooms with the help of Young Change Agents.

Young Change Agents is a non-profit social enterprise focused on developing the mindset, skillset and toolset of youth aged 10 - 21. 

They do this through social entrepreneurship programs combined with educator capacity building, the amplification of youth ideas, and technology platforms that provide badging and ePortfolios.

Learning Intention: 

Participants will...

• Understand the benefits of cultivating entrepreneurial and design thinking skills into your classrooms

• Explore a variety of design challenges and program resources available from Young Change Agents

• Learn how to quickly and easily sign up and get support through their free and sponsored program offerings

Success Criteria

Participants will know that they are successful if they can... 

• Register for and run an YCA (Young Change Agent) event

Additional Resources

• Future of Finance Challenge Sign Up

• Past Design Challenges

• $20 Boss Sign Up

• Young Change Agents Programs