Mark Anderson - ICTEvangelist

Dec 28 2015

Top ten mindfulness tips for leaders

By Mark Anderson Leadership 3 Comments

I wrote a post a while ago titled 'Do superheroes cry' which contained deep within it some mindfulness tips for leaders. Leadership is something which carries along with it management roles but sometimes leaders can forget about the effect their actions and decisions can have upon others. Head teacher John…

Dec 17 2015

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My predictions for #edtech in 2016

By Mark Anderson ICT One Comment

Lots of emails and tweets are flying around at the moment with their predictions for a number of things such as edtech in 2016, and there certainly seem to be some fantastic developments in the pipeline for technology in education. One such email came in this morning from Nesta with…

Dec 16 2015

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How to host a Twitter chat like a champion

By Mark Anderson CPD 10 Comments

To coin a phrase, have you ever wondered how to host a Twitter chat like a champion? I've been fortunate enough to have been asked to host a number of different Twitter chats over the years such as #SLTchat, #ukedchat, #BETTchat, #aussieED etc. and as I've done more and more…

Dec 16 2015

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Music player for Google Drive

By Mark Anderson Chrome 3 Comments

Music player for Google Drive is a free and simple to use, lightweight player for audio content you have in Google Drive. This makes it really handy to listen to all of those podcasts or audio recordings you've had your children send to you via Google Classroom. You can access…

Dec 14 2015

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CTRL + A – the Sauron of keyboard shortcuts

By Mark Anderson ICT 18 Comments

Some might say that focusing an entire post on one keyboard shortcut might be a bit bonkers, but oh no... not with Ctrl + A. Combine these two powerful little keys together and you'll be going all 'select all' with everything in no time at all! Why do I rate this shortcut…

Dec 14 2015

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In defence of technicians

By Mark Anderson T & L 11 Comments

So it seems that my post from last week caused a bit of a furore among technicians; no surprise there I guess given the title although some (wrongly) saw the post as a strategic and personal attack upon those in technical roles in schools. Having read through many pages of forum posts…

Dec 13 2015

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AppShareLive – a new initiative

By Mark Anderson CPD No Comments

AppShareLive is a new initiative where I hope to get a bunch of educators together each month to share some technology that is working for them in their classroom. I was really pleased with the first edition of #appsharelive yesterday, you can view it again below via YouTube. This is…

Dec 09 2015

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The problem with technicians

By Mark Anderson Leadership 38 Comments

The problem with technicians, you know who I mean - technical support... And this isn't to say that this is a global issue and a problem everywhere. Some schools, in fact in many schools, it is the job of a teacher to be network manager or the person who manages…

Dec 04 2015

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Learning with loops

By Mark Anderson Computing 4 Comments

I loved catching up with the brilliant Steve Bunce at the Apple RTC Winter Conference last week at the Belfry. In his simply fab presentation about coding, he spent some time looking at a variety of ways in which you can use music to teach children about loops. In this…