Mark Anderson - ICTEvangelist

Nov 24 2016

#EdTech life hacks to make your job easier

By Mark Anderson EdTech

Technology can help so much both in terms of learning and teaching. In my recent presentation for #TMEastLondon I shared a bunch of time-saving and simple tools, ideas and techniques that you can use in and out of the classroom to make your life easier. Watch the short video below…

Nov 23 2016

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5 interesting ways to use your iPad without wifi as a teacher

By Mark Anderson iPad, iPad apps

Many apps on the iPad work without any wifi at all. We have become accustomed to being connected when working with access to a plethora of resources because an internet connection is just part of our everyday working lives now, but sometimes it isn't available. Many of the apps that…

Nov 21 2016

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My closing keynote (and slides) from the Edtech UK Global Summit

By Mark Anderson EdTech

I've been having a brilliant few weeks (sorry). I've: worked with the awesome team at New Wave Federation around iPad use and have been busy planning the TeachMeet Resolutions event to be held in January with Michelle Thomas, the executive head of the Federation. travelled to China and worked with…

Oct 31 2016

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App Autonomy

By Mark Anderson Learning

As you may have noticed via my social media I recently did the opening keynote on the teacher day and the same on the leadership day at the JESS Digital Innovation Summit in Dubai. Whilst there I met one of their teachers, Tom Edge who presented and shared a great…

Oct 30 2016

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Be the (#edtech) change

By Mark Anderson EdTech

Mahatma Ghandi needs no introduction. Something he is famously quoted as having said is; "Be the change you wish to see in the world". As it goes: "there is no reliable documentary evidence for the quotation. The closest verifiable remark we have from Gandhi is this: “If we could change…

Oct 29 2016

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Five ways to use Adobe Spark Post in the classroom

By Mark Anderson EdTech

It's been around for a while now and it continues to feature as one of the apps I turn to on a daily basis, such is its ease of use and powerful output. I talk of course about the brilliant Adobe Spark Post app. Free as an app on iOS…

Oct 03 2016

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We have a choice when it comes to #edtech

By Mark Anderson EdTech

I love technology, it has to be said - why else would I have a Twitter handle like @ICTEvangelist. However geeky I am about technology though, I'm even more geeky about teaching and learning. We read (or at least it seems) on an all too regular basis about how using…

Sep 27 2016

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Meet and greet

By Mark Anderson Positivity

I taught a lesson today. Ok, so it was somewhat artificial. I was working for Apple at their national RTC (regional training centre) conference at the Belfry near Birmingham. One of my sessions there over the two days was looking at a new App they have called Apple Classroom. It really…

Sep 24 2016

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My interview on the #EdTech Podcast with Sophie Bailey @PodcastEdtech

By Mark Anderson EdTech

It was a gorgeous summer's day when I met Sophie Bailey by the Guardian offices for my interview for her fledgling podcast. It was at a large edtech event looking at edupreneurs who were seeking venture capital for their organisations. In the interview you'll hear me mention a bunch of people.…