This session explores how digital publishing can be used as a powerful storytelling tool, supporting literacy, pupil voice, and cross-curricular learning. Participants will examine how publishing tasks move beyond simple presentation, enabling pupils to plan, draft, edit, and refine digital work for a real audience.
Using Just2easy tools, teachers will explore a range of publishing formats, such as digital books, posters, newspapers, and reports, and consider how these can be used to support progression in writing, structure, and design. The session will highlight how publishing activities encourage purposeful communication and help pupils develop confidence in sharing their learning digitally.
The session will explore how digital storytelling aligns with:
Northern Ireland ICT Desirable Features, developing pupils’ ability to create, communicate, and present digital content confidently and purposefully across the curriculum
Welsh Digital Competence Framework (DCF), particularly within the Creativity, Communication, and Citizenship strands of Curriculum for Wales
Scottish Curriculum for Excellence Technologies and Literacy experiences and outcomes.
Delivery:
Delivered through Microsoft Teams
Outcomes:
Teachers will be able to:
Support pupils in creating publish-ready digital documents
Teach layout, formatting, and visual hierarchy skills
Design publishing tasks for real or simulated audiences
Encourage attention to detail and high-quality outcomes
