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Jan 25 2015

#Bett2015 Part Two – #UKEdChat on RM stand

By Mark Anderson Bett One Comment

I was delighted when one of most important people to me in my PLN, Martin Burrett @ICTMagic invited me to be interviewed for UKEdChat and to meet folk on the RM stand. I'll always remember one of the first meetings I had with Martin on the very same stand at Bett in 2013.…

Jan 25 2015

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#Bett2015 Part One – Learning with technology in 2015

By Mark Anderson Bett 3 Comments

Bett this year has been a lovely, affirming, sharing and fabulous opportunity to connect and re-connect with some of the most innovative and passionate educators in the world. I was humbled to be asked by a number of people to speak and share my thoughts across my visit on Friday.…

Jan 22 2015

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Remixing great lessons: Challenge

By Mark Anderson T & L 4 Comments

Great lessons have key characteristics. Many edu-bloggers have discussed the characteristics of great lessons but for me, the one person that nails it is as discussed in my introductory post to this series is Tom Sherrington. In his series he discusses the topic in some detail across ten posts. In my series I will…

Jan 18 2015

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Remixing great lessons: Rigour

By Mark Anderson T & L 9 Comments

Jan 18 2015

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Educator spotlight: @sylviaduckworth

By Mark Anderson educators 8 Comments

I haven't done this before but someone's inspired me of late through her awesome sharing and brilliant creative work that she's been doing. Her name is Sylvia Duckworth - an educator from Toronto, Canada. Sylvia is a Google Certified Teacher and a French teacher. Sylvia has been doing lots of sketchnoting and sharing…

Jan 17 2015

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Wins for remixing your classroom #TMLQ #TMJersey

By Mark Anderson TeachMeets No Comments

I was really pleased when Pete Jones asked me to create a presentation for a Teachmeet he was hosting at his school. I'm going to Jersey to do a number of bits of work this year so it was a great opportunity to connect albeit remotely with some of the…

Jan 13 2015

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Quick Start Computing – a new helpful CPD offer

By Mark Anderson ICT One Comment

Launched today, supported by the DfE, Computing At School, Microsoft, the Quick Start Computing site is something I was put on to which I think could make somewhat of a difference for those teachers struggling to gain confidence with the new Computing curriculum in the UK. The site has two…

Jan 11 2015

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Vidra for iPad – free video creation tool

By Mark Anderson iPad 10 Comments

Vidra is a great free new app from the creators of the also brilliant Grafio - TenTouch Apps. I was using Grafio on my iPad today and saw that they were promoting this new app - the end result looked pretty good and not too dissimilar to Adobe Voice (which I…

Jan 02 2015

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Remixing great lessons – an introduction

By Mark Anderson T & L 7 Comments

Great lessons have key characteristics. Many edu-bloggers have discussed this but for me, the one that nails it is Tom Sherrington where he discusses the topic in some detail in his 'Great Lessons' series on his brilliant blog. He breaks these down in to ten key areas: Probing (questioning) Rigour (pitch and tone of…