Apple Distinguished Educators help students create great things at Leigh Academy
Take 14 Apple Distinguished Educators, 1 very new Kent Academy, 4 schools, over 500 students and 1100 pieces of uploaded work and you have one very creative week.
NTI Media Training Manager Neil Emery joined 12 fellow Apple Distinguished Educators at Leigh Academy in Kent to delivery a number of creative workshops to around 150 students over four days.
Based upon the iconic children’s programme ‘Grange Hill’, Neil instructed his students to recreate the open titles using applications found upon 900 iMacs populating Leigh Academy.
Armed with such creative tools as ‘Comic Life’, ‘Photo Booth’, ‘iMovie’ and ‘Garageband’, students created their own opening credits based upon reasons they enjoy attending Leigh Academy.
Results were outstanding with over 1100 pieces of completed work being uploaded to ‘Euro Creator’ which is a YouTube style website for schools supported by the European Union – www.eurocreator.com.
Neil commented “I was constantly humbled all week by the continued hard work put in by all of my students and the quality of finished work was just incredible”.
Outstanding students were rewarded with Apple iPods presented at an awards ceremony on the final day by Apple employee Lara Havord.
To finish it all off a number of the Apple Distinguished Educators formed a band and performed in front of the whole school. The band included Neil on drums and the performance can be seen here.
NTI Exhibit at National Health and Innovation Expo
NTI Birmingham, along with leading Apple reseller Jigsaw Systems, recently exhibited at the National Health and Innovation EXPO held at London’s Olympia.
The NTI joined Jigsaw Systems to add a training solution to their hardware and software sales adding a slightly different slant on the usual education work we normally carry out with them.
“Technology plays a major role within the health service but unless the correct advice, support, service and training is provided this technology can not be implemented and utilised to its maximum use” said Neil Emery.
Successfully encouraging innovation in the NHS is challenging because new treatments, clinical advances and service development are constantly redefining what high quality care looks like. The NTI aim to give support through training to enable sectors in the NHS get the most out of the technology and software they use.