Turriff and Huntly ACE meet-ups

It’s not a question but I wanted to share how our Turriff and Huntly ACE meet-up/coffee and create sessions went. Week 1 I was with a group of 10 educators in Turriff. A couple had used Adobe Express before but the rest were newbies. Then yesterday I repeated the session in Huntly with a group of 18 educators. There were more in this group who had done a bit of Adobe dabbling before! We focussed on the Teach section looking at the wealth of resources and templates which can give us a starting point so we don’t have that “blank page” moment where you struggle to come up with ideas. Then we all had a go at the Community Quilt so we could see how easy the scaffolded Guided Activities makes a task. I was tempted to go with the Yearbook persona (loving this month’s challenges!) as a fab way to reflect on the year but I love how we can use the Community Quilt as a getting to know you activity - perfect for those transition visits with your new learners - so I stuck with that. It was also a good way to show how easy it is for our younger learners to add in an animated character to talk about their patch instead of typing their thoughts out. One highlight for me was when a teacher came up at the end yesterday and said she had been doing some real patchwork with her learners and now she was going to take this away and do this with them too! Love it!

I hope the sessions inspired some new leaders amongst you! As a reminder you can sign up for the leader programme here: adobe.ly/leadereurope