Well yesterday was very, very special. I was thrilled to be invited to give a presentation to ADEs and APLS from across 🇫🇮 Finland at the most stunning location on the 🇦🇽 Åland Islands.
The two hour workshop covered several topics. I started with brief story about how I became an ADE and the impact it had on me both personally and professionally.
Next we took a whistlestop tour into iPadOS 26 where I shared ten of my favourite new features, from the improved Personal Voice to the new Multitasking Mode and beyond. A real crowd-pleased was the automatic reminders sorting in the Reminders app – turning a list of 20 to-do’s into a neatly organised and much more manageable categorised list. I also shared a free copy of my new 100 QuickTips for iOS26 ebook with the 16 attendees as a way of saying thank you for inviting me to Finland.
Our final hour was undoubtably my favourite part of the session – introducing the Final Cut Pro app for iPad and sharing how to make QuickTip videos. After an introduction to the app and sharing a starting template, everyone went off in groups to decide a topic, capture their screen recording, record their own Memoji (giving narration in Finnish) and then editing it all together in Final Cut.
Getting to see everyone’s results at the end was so special. The teachers became the students for the morning and seeing the creative and fun ways they took the project and made it their own was awesome.
I’m so grateful to Joonas Väisänen from Atea Finland for this opportunity, and to all of the incredible teachers and leaders from Finland who I’ve spent the past two days with.
Kiitos!
