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Ruth Burnett
@rooferburnett.bsky.social
Primary teacher in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 - digital learning is my fave.

Big fan of biscuits, cups of tea and Rocky IV - the best of all the Rocky movies.
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As we make plans for the 2025-2026 school session, it is always good to reflect on the success of the workshops we have delivered over the last year....

A small selection of the lovely feedback from our course attendees. #AppleRTC #AppleEDU
June 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Next up for #WCID is a fun idea for storytelling, creating literacy landscapes with shapes in Keynote. #EveryoneCanCreate

Storytelling Setting with Shapes 🏰 education.apple.com/story/250014...

There are lots more ideas available in the Apple Education Community here: bit.ly/42mMjlb
Storytelling Setting with Shapes
Step into a world of your imagination! In this storytelling activity, students are tasked with designing the perfect setting for a fairy tale. Craft enchanted forests, towering castles, or mysterious ...
education.apple.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Today is World Creativity and Innovation Day! #WCID

I had lots of fun creating the following activities for the Apple Learning Centre. #EveryoneCanCreate Design with Shapes project to get started.

Unleash Your Inner Artist 🎨 education.apple.com/story/250014...
Unleash Your Inner Artist!
Challenge your students to unleash their inner abstract artist! Explore the power of shapes and vibrant colours. Pupils can arrange geometric forms and experiment with colour palettes to create their ...
education.apple.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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👋 primary teachers @stacshq.bsky.social has something for you
👇have been working on a session to get you going with @microbit_edu from the very basics to projects you can do with your class
💡@SDGoals #CrossCurricular
Sign up coming soon
Come along, build skills, we’d love to see you 😃
🗓️ 19.3
🕰️ 7pm
March 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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STACS tutors met up at University of Glasgow to prepare this year's teacher up-skilling programme. Featuring FREE upskilling for CS covering Primary BGE up to Advanced Higher. Stay tuned for more details soon!

All will be run on connected.stacs.scot
#ByTeachersForTeachers
February 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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We've been a little quiet after the 346 weeks of January, but are back with a bang 🎆 and four courses to finish off the 2024-2025 school session. Courses available now on the CPD Manager. #AppleRTC
February 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Closest I’ve been to divorce.
January 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla
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Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...
Heil Tesla
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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January 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My absolute FAVOURITE Christmas tradition. Rocky IV on Christmas Eve. Yaaaaaas! Double training montage FTW. (Director’s Cut this year, nae 80s robot)
December 24, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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🌃✨Check out this fantastic Keynote activity to create some winter stained glass art! Use shapes combined with the fabulous Northern Lights template. We can't wait to see what you create!✨🌃 #AppleEduSky #AppleRTC

youtu.be/GMS9t8fedWM?...
December 6, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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🎅⛷️ Create your own magical winter wonderland with this storytelling with emojis activity using Freeform! ⛷️🎅 #AppleRTC #AppleEduSky

youtu.be/yGkgScVWhUo?...
A Winter Tale (With Emojis)
YouTube video by Renfrewshire Apple RTC
youtu.be
December 4, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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🎄🎁 Our holiday gift for you! We are delighted to share our RTC Winter Wonderland. A festive spin on the fantastic new creative activities from @AppleEDU #AppleEduSky

Check out the ThingLink below and tag us in your creations. We can't wait to see! 🎁🎄

www.thinglink.com/card/1912971...
December 2, 2024 at 12:40 PM
As a big fan of the new creative activities, it has been lots of fun giving them a sprinkling of festive magic! Interactive ThingLink, and videos on our #AppleRTC YouTube channel, coming Mon 2nd Dec. ❄️🎁🎄 #AppleEduSky Join in the fun and show us what you create!
☃️ It's that time of year again! The sleigh bells are ringing and it's time to go walkin' in a winter wonderland. We are delighted to bring you our wintertime spin on the fantastic new creative activities in the Apple Education Learning Centre. #AppleEduSky #AppleRTC
All available Mon 2nd Dec 🎁
November 27, 2024 at 9:07 PM
These are top tier chocolate buttons and if you haven’t tried them you absolutely MUST. I even waited til the kids had gone to bed to get them open so I didn’t have to share. #toptiersnacks #nonotes #moreplease
November 21, 2024 at 10:48 PM
A joy to see the lovely @kabercrombie.bsky.social and @senormier.bsky.social tonight! Team #ADE2023 represent. 🙌 #AppleEduSky
November 20, 2024 at 10:45 PM
People of Bluesky! Let’s get to know each other better. What is your all time favorite TV Show?

Quote share your answer only in GIF form.
November 19, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Nothing quite like having to sit down to put your ankle back into place during a workout to make you feel old. #oldbutnotwise
November 18, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Karen's resources are always amazing! Such a wonderful selection of ideas here for getting outdoors with iPad! #AppleEduSky
🌳 Taking your learning outdoors? ☀️

Enhance outdoor learning with purposeful and creative use of the iPad. Here’s 20 ideas that might inspire you to seamlessly integrate technology while exploring the great outdoors. #EveryoneCanCreate #AppleEducationCommunity #EduSky
November 16, 2024 at 12:58 PM
❄️ ☃️ Working on a little #EveryoneCanCreate #WinterFest project but the cat keeps trying to sit on the laptop or my hands... not massively helpful Thor. #EduSky #AppleEduSky
November 16, 2024 at 12:57 PM
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💥I really enjoyed the new Design Custom Graphics #EveryoneCanCreate project in the #AppleEducationCommunity Thinking ahead to celebrating Scots Language Month with this barry wee activity.💥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Have a shufty here... education.apple.com/learning-cen...
October 1, 2024 at 10:51 AM
🌌A cracking #EveryoneCanCreate idea on #AppleEducationCommunity using shapes and lines to Design Stained Glass.🌌

Lots of potential for use in the classroom. I can see a fabulous festive design activity in the near(ish) future.

Try it here education.apple.com/learning-cen...
October 1, 2024 at 10:50 AM
🎃👻Spooky season is here and I had great fun with the new Create Pixel Art #EveryoneCanCreate activity on #AppleEducationCommunity 👻🎃

My P3s are going to love this and it is perfectly timed as we begin our investigations into symmetry.

Try it here education.apple.com/learning-cen...
October 1, 2024 at 8:22 AM
The pressure to write something impressive and meaningful for my first post is immense….

So I’m not going to bother.

👋 #EduSky and #AppleEduSky I’m Ruth. Primary teacher in Scotland. My chat so far on here has been about baked goods, but my main chat is usually digital learning themed.
August 20, 2024 at 4:10 PM