training @ ththebarn

FREE or subsidised courses held approximately every 8 weeks.

Home learning system

NOTE: This course covers Google Classroom

Schools are under increasing pressure to provide a 21st century home learning platform. Robert Halfon, Tory chairman of the Education Select Committee, has called for an online education strategy. He has asked education watchdog Ofsted and local authorities to work closely with schools to set “clear guidance” for online learning. Schools have been told they need a contingency plan in place by the end of September.

By now your school should have taken up the DfE's offer of a FREE home learning system. This is much more than a glorified homework platform and if correctly "rolled out" can give a massive boost to children's digital and literacy skills.

If you opted for Google Cloud, G-Suite for Education, you now have access to one of the most powerful, but easily accessible, home learning systems available today and it’s completely FREE.

This course is aimed at the complete novice who needs to learn the basics of G-Suite for Education and how to get started with Google Classroom. It covers your "Home Working Contingency Plan" (template provided), setting up your classroom, getting parents and guardians involved, top tips for blended learning (flipping your classroom) and much more.

Date / Price: to be announced (1/2 day) - if we can get over 15 candidates the price will be around £20

Home Learning System

Introduction to Google Apps

This is an ideal course if you are new to Google Cloud. A total introduction explaining how you can easily get your school using Google Cloud and start to offer a free 21st century learning and digital skills platform to your students.

We run through what cloud computing is, how it will benefit your school and the 21st century skills children will gain by moving onto Google Cloud.

We give you your chance to experience some of the apps and get you connect to the fantastic Google Classroom. A real must for beginners .

A full breakdown of this course can be seen by clicking on the document

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Introduction To Google Apps & Cloud Computing

Getting your school onto Google Cloud

Your first few lessons are very important and they will either make or break the introduction of Google Cloud into your school. Therefore, it is very important that you carefully plan the lessons and get children engaged .

This course is designed to ease that first introduction. With lots of tips on how to prepare and make sure you get it right first time. With a total run through of the first couple of lessons to help get you started and children engaged.

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Getting On Google Cloud

Google Drive & All those

Apps !

With unlimited storage and a number of powerful apps Google Drive is where you will store all your documents, presentations, pictures and videos. It offers amazing sharing options and allows staff and students to easily share and collaborate in real time.

This course introduces you to the power of Google Drive, how you can make use of it in your school and how to get your students creating documents and presentations that fit right into the current topic work.

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Google Drive & Apps

Google Sites

Google Sites is a very easy to use Drag "n" Drop website builder that can produce some incredible results quickly and easily. It's one of those products that doesn’t get enough recognition and if you think a free website builder can't be up to much - well this website has been built using Google Sites!

So, how can I use Google Sites with my class? This course take you from ground zero to a finished site. You get full access to Google Cloud and we provide some prebuilt content that you can add to your website along with your own ideas and research.

A few years ago the idea of getting children to build a website would have been impossible, Google Sites has changed all of that and allowing children to research and build a website is an incredible boost to their digital skills.

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Google Sites

coding for all

It's in the school curriculum and can be judged by Ofsted, but possibly teachers struggle with coding more then any other subject. Whenever I'm covering 5 to 6 weeks of coding you can almost hears the sign of relief from the class teacher.

This course is aimed at year 1 to year 4 and is full of practical examples on how to get your children enjoying, engaged and interested in writing computer code. You will have full access to code.org and Scratch and will work through some of the example worksheets.

Aimed at novices, you don't need to know anything about coding to attend and you will be able to download all of the examples show on this course.

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Coding for Beginners

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