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Jun 25 2020

FREE CPD >> Five Evidence-Informed Uses of #Edtech To Help Get Online Learning Right

By Mark Anderson AFL, CPD, Distance Learning, EdTech, Featured, Free resource, Home Learning, Learning, My Screencasts, Remote Learning, TeachMeets, Tutorial, Work with me No Comments

A few months ago I was approached by Seneca to deliver a Teachmeet (as a webinar) as part of their TeachMeet series. When I agreed and was asked what I would like to share about I thought what better way than to share some evidence-informed approaches to using technology. I…

Jun 23 2020

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The Global Edtech Academy – Free CPD for you for the next 3 months!

By Mark Anderson Conferences, Distance Learning, EdTech, educators, Featured, Free resource, Home Learning, Learning, Microsoft, Resources, Staffrm, Work with me No Comments

I'll always remember my birthday this year. Things were starting to get closed down everywhere and on that day, the lockdown here in the UK was announced. Since that day, every day I've seen educators working as superheroes, doing their best to help, be supportive, creative, engaging in our own…

Jun 13 2020

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Different ways (and how) to use Twitter’s new scheduling tool

By Mark Anderson CPD, EdTech, Resources, Tutorial, Work with me No Comments

Lots of schools use Twitter to share what they are doing, from sharing the fabric of school life and the day to day activities to professional learning opportunities from the school, its teachers sharing the great work of their learners - there are so many ways that schools use the…

Apr 09 2020

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Learning in Quarantine – Part Two

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, Accountability, Computing, Covid, EdTech, Featured, Food for thought, Learning No Comments

With School Closed... Part Two This post was originally posted on the 15/03/2020 on the Independent Thinking blog here. Following on from the previous blog I put out with Independent Thinking last week - not mention this one written for us by Ben Keeling head of Shrewsbury School in Hong Kong - we…

Apr 09 2020

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Learning in Quarantine… Part One

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, Covid, EdTech, Ethics, Food for thought, Leadership, Learning, Pedagogy first No Comments

With School Closed... Part One This post was originally posted on the 2/3/20 on the Independent Thinking blog here. "There are many things to consider at times like these. If you are a school leader you’ll be worried about your community, your students, your colleagues, the school site and keeping…

Feb 27 2020

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LbQ – a game changer for teachers and learners!

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Education, Learning, Product Review, Resources No Comments

If you haven’t heard of Learning by Questions (LbQ) then where have you been? I first heard about LbQ more than a year ago when visiting a school in Northern Ireland. The teacher I was talking to was so enthusiastic about it and its impact on his learners, I had…

Sep 12 2019

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Using Adobe Spark Post and Siri Shortcuts to make animated gifs

By Mark Anderson ADE, EdTech, Education, educators, iPad No Comments

I'm working at the University of Worcester tomorrow speaking to 150+ PGCE students about using Twitter for professional development, among other things. As part of that, here is a Twitter question I posed earlier. I've posed questions like this before and the response has always been phenomenal. Today has been…

Jul 11 2019

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How to get your colours right when creating dual coding influenced resources

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, Cognitive Science, Learning, Resources, Tools No Comments

Making our resources clear and well presented is a key thing to help us when it comes to reducing cognitive load and supporting the ideas around dual coding when creating resources. In this post, I'm going to be sharing some of the tools I use to make some of the…

Jun 27 2019

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Using project sharing and collaboration in @AdobeSpark

By Mark Anderson Chrome, Computing, EdTech, Education, Google No Comments

It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of the Adobe Spark suite of tools I've written about them and shared ways in which they can be used to support teaching and learning many times. Apart from it being completely free for schools to have the full Spark suite, in…

Jun 26 2019

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Book Creator bring AI into its popular app with AutoDraw

By Mark Anderson Chrome, EdTech, ICT, Learning, Literacy No Comments

I've always loved Book Creator. For me, it embodies the very best of edtech in that it is versatile enough to be used with learners of all ages, has uses across all ages, is simple to use and can be used in lots of different ways to support teaching and…