Sway is a presentation tool available as part of the Office 365 tools within Glow. Primary 5 at Saint Mary’s Primary School have been using Sway alongside many other Office 365 tools to learn more about Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Here is what they created:
A fantastic way of children sharing their learning, working collaboratively, creating content and showing their understanding.
Office Sway is a presentation tool available as part of the Office 365 tools available within your OneDrive on Glow. It has an inbuilt professional design tool which allows users to create multimedia presentations without any special software or advanced skills.
Pupils and adults who have used it have expressed that it is easy to use, can be made in minutes and shared with their class. Within Sway pupils can add media content (photographs, video, tweets etc.) without having to leave the page they are working on as there is an inbuilt search engine that they can access on the left side of their screen.
Sways can be worked on collaboratively by multiple users and shared to others quickly and easily. The Microsoft Education website has lots of video tutorials and CPD opportunities available for teachers to find out more.For more information click on this link Introduction to Sway
Yammer is a private and secure social network which Teachers and Pupils can connect, collaborate and coordinate across classes, schools, local authorities and beyond.
Yammer is accessible in Glow through the Office365 tools in the OneDrive tile.
Yammer makes Education and Learning:
Yammer allows teachers and students to get quick answers to questions, share news with only those who need to know, coordinate work for projects and discover valuable information.
There is a Yammer app that is accessible on the app store which makes access even quicker.
There are currently over 10000 members on Glow Yammer. Join the conversation and take advantage of the fantastic professional dialogue availble with colleagues throughout Scotland.
Class Notebook is a free tool available from Microsoft and can be accessed by all children and teaching staff through Glow. Class Notebook is an electronic version of a notebook which can be customised and shared with others in order to promote collaborative work. Just like a notebook, you can separate a Class Notebook into sections and add multiple pages in each to keep work organised and easy to locate. Within this you can embed different tools from O365 such as Forms, Word, Excel and Powerpoint which enables you to keep all of your work in one place.
In the classroom, this can be a useful tool both in primary and secondary. There are three elements of this notebook shown below:
This tool can be used across the curriculum and when delivering interdisciplinary learning. It provides a quick way for teachers to gather a variety of evidence as each page can contain text, photographs, comments, web links, audio or video. A picture of a piece of work can be instantly inserted via mobile devices straight onto a pupil’s page. Pupils can also use this tool to reflect on their learning and record this just like they would do using a learning log. They would be able to access this whenever they are connected to the internet whether they are at school or home which provides opportunities for parents to be further involved in their child’s learning.
If you would like further guidance on how to use Class Notebook effectively to enhance learning and teaching, please contact the Learning Technology Team. There are also helpful videos available which give more information.