Mark Anderson - ICTEvangelist

Jan 19 2016

Essential Chromebook tools and apps for the classroom

By Mark Anderson Chrome, Free resource 4 Comments

A while ago I created an infographic featuring 30 apps for the paperless iPad classroom. Today I've created a similar type of infographic but with essential Chromebook tools and apps for the classroom. It features 18 different tools that I have used with children in my classrooms over the years…

Jan 15 2016

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Inspiring reading and writing with the Lifeline App

By Mark Anderson iPad, Literacy 2 Comments

Inspiring reading and writing in young people can sometimes be a challenge, but utilising popular media and technology often has a big impact on pupil engagement in this area. The rather fab text-based adventure game Lifeline was just named Apple's App of the Week. To tie in with this, it is…

Jan 11 2016

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Educator spotlight: Laura Dickinson @elearning_laura

By Mark Anderson Educator Spotlight, iPad One Comment

I've been working the awesome Stephenson Memorial School and the North Tyneside Learning Trust for some time now. It was my pleasure to be involved in their RTC launch last year and other events there across the day I was there. I will write about the Digital Leader academy that I…

Jan 11 2016

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My itinerary at #BETT16

By Mark Anderson Bett One Comment

I'm pleased to share my itinerary at #BETT16 with you. I'm involved in a number of different areas and am pleased to be involved in some ground-breaking activities too. BETT is always a tiring few days. Ian Addison wrote some great advice a few years ago and his advice still stands…

Jan 08 2016

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Ten things every educator should know about their iPad

By Mark Anderson iPad 4 Comments

This popular post originated on my Staffrm account but I thought I'd update it a bit and transfer it to my own site, so here it is... Ten things every educator should know about their iPad... 1. Pressing the home button and the standby button will take a screen shot…

Jan 03 2016

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Ten things everyone should know about teachers

By Mark Anderson T & L 63 Comments

Teachers are enthusiastic and dynamic, highly intelligent and share a passion for wanting to make a difference in this world. They can also be quirky however and this is as a result of there being no other job like theirs. They become a breed apart from the rest of the…

Dec 30 2015

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A review of my blog in 2015

By Mark Anderson Blogs 2 Comments

The popular plugin for Wordpress, Jetpack, has helpfully compiled some stats on my blog for 2015. In addition to many nominations for best blog and also winning the UK Blog Awards Education blog of the year, there are some interesting stats (at least I find them interesting) too. My continued…

Dec 30 2015

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An iPad toolkit – 29 iPad Apps that promote good learning

By Mark Anderson Free resource, iPad 4 Comments

In case you hadn't noticed, I'm quite a fan of the iPad (the Lollipop Nexus 9's not too bad either). Not because of its design or because its by Apple or any of that, but because of its keen heritage in the learning arena. Any one who knows me will…