Online Courses - Upskill During Lockdown

Online courses are a great way of learning new skills and improving existing ones. Courtesy of Learning Academy, here is a selection that may interest you.

Food and Mood : Improving Mental Health Through Diet and Nutrition 

Hosted by Future Learn, this course explores the topics of food, nutrition, mental and brain health. Learn why diet matters are all related and how to make optimal dietary changes.

The course will provide research evidence, practical examples, skills development, and collaboration on dietary intake assessment, strategies and resource sharing for dietary change. 

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EdTech: Digital well-being for all (Part 1) 

This course by the Education and Training Foundation explores our awareness of how digital technologies can negatively affect well-being and how we can lessen the negativity.

When we go online we build up, piece by piece, online identities that can have positive and negative outcomes for our well-being, our sense of self-worth and for our future prospects, all based on how others react and respond to our activity. Each time we contribute to the web, we add to an online identity. We can manage our identity and develop over time a reputation in good ways, that will help lead towards work, personal and social engagement.  

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Save Classroom Time – Tools for Planning, Assignments & Communication 

This webinar by Microsoft Education how to create lesson recordings, organize, grade, and assess work in Microsoft Teams and Class Notebook.

You will learn how to use the Recording feature in PowerPoint as a formative assessment tool; see how Microsoft Teams and OneNote Class Notebook enables teachers to organize, grade, and assess student work with ease; and create a Form to quickly poll or quiz students and describe how analysing results in Forms would impact instruction. 

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