This year’s institute will stay with me for some time. I will blog more about it but for now I will keep my mouth and keyboard shut as I don’t want to provide any spoilers for those about to attend the third regional institute in Singapore.
Those of you who don’t know, the ADE (Apple Distinguished Educator) institute is an event that happens once every two years. Places to attend are highly coveted. Unlike some of the other educator events put on by edtech powerhouses, the Apple institute goes beyond the norm and are massive affairs.
My biggest win, as with many events that I am fortunate to attend, was the opportunity to meet with some fantastic educators and share ideas and hear some fantastic stories from Elvis to Dubai to Lord of the Rings swords and beyond. Thank you to everyone who shared a story with me. I was and still am genuinely touched at how amazing everyone who attended was. It’s a humbling experience being surrounded by so many inspiring people.
Apple talk about ADEs about being true innovators and from everyone I spoke with I couldn’t disagree. Apple talk too about there being a special relationship between ADEs and Apple and I have to agree with that too. Each institute I’ve attended amounted to the BEST CPD I’ve ever had and it didn’t disappoint.
I couldn’t let the event go past however without sharing one of my personal little wins. It wasn’t the sharing and excitement that came from the Parrot Mini Drone that I took and was able to share, or the Sphero, nor the Ollie… This came in the form of a little App I’ve been using for some time now called ‘Typorama‘. Many will know of the fantastic WordSwag, however the extended features of Typorama make it a really handy tool for adding that little ‘extra’ to the images I use.
Check out some of the images I took and then edited during the institute below:
The images really resonated and so with that, I thought I’d get in touch with the App developers. Such nice folk they were too – they’ve given me a number of vouchers that I can give away, so that you can have the Typorama app for free. The App, normally £2.29 produces some fantastic results. If you’d like a code, please drop me a line via my contact page here and I’ll send one across.
When the vouchers have all gone I will state so here. All codes now gone sorry. Thanks to Typorama for giving me some!
To help you get started with Typorama, I made a short video showing you how you can use the different features. I hope you find it useful!
More on #ADE2015 soon!
Hi Mark,
I’d like a Typorama voucher please. Only thing I’ve got slightly stuck on is which specific contact page you wanted me to use. Might be worth clarifying by hyperlinking the ‘here’ part in the blog or having a more visible ‘contact me’ link. I couldn’t quite see it so hence my comment here.
Thanks Andy. I’ve DM’d you a code. Thanks for picking up the omission of the link. I’ve updated it now.
Hi Mark
Really loved your post about ADEs, attended a couple of Apple Teacher Institutes a while back, and keep thinking I must collate some of my ideas to apply.
Wondered also, if you had any Typorama codes left? If yes, I would love one please
Thanks again
Martin
Hi Mark
Always inspired to try new Apps from reading your posts.
I’d like a code for typorama if poss please.
Cheers Elaine
Would love a code please!
Hi Mark.
I would love to have a code for typorama. I also ordered me a sphero after reading your post.
Keep up the good work. 🙂
Thanks, Lene
Hi Mark,
Just seen that the codes have gone but wanted to say thank you for sharing. I was gutted that I missed the ADE deadline this year, due to work staffing issues! I’ll now be wishing the next two years away but in the meantime enjoy sharing the work we do in school with iPads and MacBooks!
Claire
Hi Claire
Thanks for your comment. If I can help at all with your application or anything else, please do not hesitate to get in touch!
Best wishes,
Mark 🙂