Mark Anderson - ICTEvangelist

Jul 11 2017

Icons galore with this brilliant new add-in from the Noun Project

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Microsoft, Resources, Tools No Comments

There's one sure fire way of helping to bring your designs and documents to life and that is through the use of simple iconography. I wrote about the brilliant flaticon site in my secret edtech weapons post here. Always keeping something back for myself, I didn't share the Noun Project's…

Jul 07 2017

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Get your Pobble on!

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Leadership, Literacy No Comments

I've been a fan of Pobble for a long time now. I'm very much of the mindset that asking pupils to create meaningful writing that will be shared is a great way to engage young people in authentic and engaging writing. There are few things that given young people such…

Jul 03 2017

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Which to use – Kahoot or Quizizz?

By Mark Anderson AFL, EdTech No Comments

So first things first. Whilst I realise the actual embarrassment that I have never actually written a specific blog post about Kahoot I've included it many times. It is fair to say that over the years I've shared it with tens of thousands of educators as a great tool for…

Jun 21 2017

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Have a break… have a Twitter break

By Mark Anderson Food for thought No Comments

It's that time of year again where being a teacher is probably more stressful than ever. Teachers are worrying about how their classes will be getting on with their exams or phonics tests and classrooms are hotter than ever. There has been talk on Twitter today about an article on…

Jun 11 2017

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50 popular hashtags to help develop your professional learning

By Mark Anderson CPD, Social Media, T & L, Twitter No Comments

What is a hashtag? Hashtags for the uninitiated are those words you see sometimes with the # symbol in front of them. Many of my UK readers will have seen the #GE2017 hashtag these past few weeks on Twitter. Most people tweeting or posting on Instagram and other social media about…

Jun 06 2017

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Check out Unio – a great tool to support and enhance teaching and learning

By Mark Anderson EdTech No Comments

Unio by Harness® is a web based system which facilitates lots of different learning activities in your classroom. I love the fact that because it’s web based it is device agnostic too. You can share interactive online whiteboards and as teacher you can see all pupil’s screens in real-time and…

Jun 04 2017

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Apple nail teaching and learning with the latest version of their Classroom App

By Mark Anderson iPad, Pedagogy first No Comments

I'm a great believer in taking lots of small steps to make a bigger gain. Incremental improvements that you get better and better at through deliberate practice is one of those things that make us better teachers in the classroom. Often when it comes to technology, one of the biggest…

May 08 2017

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Boomerang can help your workload and productivity

By Mark Anderson EdTech No Comments

Continuing my series of secret #edtech weapons I wanted to share today a productivity tool which really does help if you are a Gmail user, which of course, so many of us are. One of the biggest things that can impact on our productivity is our email. Now there are lots…

May 07 2017

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And they’re back in the game…

By Mark Anderson Microsoft No Comments

If you missed the Microsoft update event this past week then you missed something I think could have marked a changing of the guard. You can watch it again here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAkuJXGldrM Just like I'm sure there were things to learn from the dad-dancing at the launch event of Windows 95, the…

May 02 2017

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IT’s about teaching and learning!

By Mark Anderson Pedagogy first, T & L No Comments

Earlier today I was paid a compliment by Amjad Ali who runs the 'trythisteaching' website. He said to both Abdul Chohan and I that he would love the opportunity to work with us both: https://twitter.com/ASTsupportAAli/status/859331922400608256 Whilst it's always nice to receive a compliment like this, one thing was particularly stark in…