Mark Christie 
I take a lot of photographs and many of those photographs are taken on a mobile phone. I use Lightroom CC to make sure that those photographs are stored within albums so I can share them with people. Lightroom is part of the paid creative cloud suite from Adobe. If you have the creative cloud, … Read more
Adobe Acrobat has some amazing document automation tools but, in many cases, people will send through a form as a PDF document expecting the recipient to print it out, sign it, scan it and resend it with the signature on the document. There are a variety of ways to get around this if you don’t … Read more
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is very popular among educators, and I have modelled a basic digital literacy needs, skills, tasks and tools for young primary students on a similar look to show the hierarchy of competencies students should accumulate in order to take on learning in an education technology centric learning environment. It is about … Read more
Truth be known I’m including these two videos because I’m afraid that I’ll forget the links. The first video provides a really easy to understand and fun to watch masterclass on what generative AI is all about. The second video is a TED talk by one of the founders of duolingo describing how their company … Read more
I love browsing through a Britannica article and then being prompted to complete a pop quiz. Here is one I wish to share with you now. Pop Quiz: 18 Things to Know About Ancient Egypt | Britannica Take it, enjoy and relish the fact that a human probably created the quiz. In Microsoft Forms you … Read more
A great and FREE new way to teach computing skills 🧑💻 There are new PD courses available and Visual Studio Code for EDU. It even has Immersive Reader built-in to make it more inclusive! Check it out! Blog: https://educationblog.microsoft.com/en-us/2024/05/teach-computing-skills-with-visual-studio-code-for-education-new In today’s schools, we need to apply levels of security that would sometimes make it very … Read more
Whenever you record a meeting in Microsoft teams it is actually being saved as a Microsoft stream video. With the recent release of the updated version of MS Stream you now have some powerful editing tools at your fingertips. This includes the ability to trim the ends of your video and cut out sections within … Read more
I have just completed the May challenge. Here was the challenge… Here was my effort… If you click the link below, it will take you to a remixable version of my effort. https://new.express.adobe.com/published/urn:aaid:sc:AP:c78eba6a-deba-473b-9e79-826124336f56?promoid=Y69SGM5H&mv=other …and here is a video about the little add on to the original challenge. All of this software is free for our … Read more
Check out this great Adobe Express webpage on Visible Thinking curated by Molly Turner. Not being a formal teacher, some of this material was new to me and great to review which is why I am resharing it here. One of the items was Project Zero – which sounded like something out of Dr. Who … Read more
