Mark Anderson - ICTEvangelist

Jan 13 2015

Quick Start Computing – a new helpful CPD offer

By Mark Anderson ICT One Comment

Launched today, supported by the DfE, Computing At School, Microsoft, the Quick Start Computing site is something I was put on to which I think could make somewhat of a difference for those teachers struggling to gain confidence with the new Computing curriculum in the UK. The site has two…

Jan 11 2015

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Vidra for iPad – free video creation tool

By Mark Anderson iPad 10 Comments

Vidra is a great free new app from the creators of the also brilliant Grafio - TenTouch Apps. I was using Grafio on my iPad today and saw that they were promoting this new app - the end result looked pretty good and not too dissimilar to Adobe Voice (which I…

Jan 07 2015

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Remixing great lessons: Probing

By Mark Anderson T & L 4 Comments

Great lessons have key characteristics. Many edu-bloggers have discussed this but for me, the one person that nails it is as discussed in my introductory post to this series is Tom Sherrington. In his series he discusses the topic in some detail across ten posts. In my series I will be looking at…

Jan 02 2015

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Remixing great lessons – an introduction

By Mark Anderson T & L 7 Comments

Great lessons have key characteristics. Many edu-bloggers have discussed this but for me, the one that nails it is Tom Sherrington where he discusses the topic in some detail in his 'Great Lessons' series on his brilliant blog. He breaks these down in to ten key areas: Probing (questioning) Rigour (pitch and tone of…

Jan 01 2015

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Appsmashlive 3 – workflows, creativity, photography, animation and coding

By Mark Anderson EdTech No Comments

Streamed live on December 30th, this AppSmash Live featured educators from all over the globe sharing their ideas. Big thanks to Richard Wells (@iPadWells), Joe Dale (@JoeDale) and Jenny Ashby (@jjash) for joining me in this session. Watch it back again now below:

Dec 28 2014

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#Nurture1415 quote posters all together

By Mark Anderson Nurture 4 Comments

I've been creating a number of posters featuring quotes from the inspiring #Nurture1415 blog posts that many educators have been writing although I haven't made one for myself (if you'd like to, please do and pass on?). It's a labour of love, but I get so much each year from…

Dec 23 2014

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Google vs Apple in Education

By Mark Anderson EdTech 8 Comments

Who would have thought it? Google now have an impressive number of apps available on the iOS App Store which can help, support and enhance learning. Of the 32 available that are optimised for iPad, I can easily see there being use for most of them in a learning space,…

Dec 20 2014

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Teacher 2.0

By Mark Anderson ICT 5 Comments

I remember 1980 well. It was a time of fluorescent socks and real technological innovation. I remember vividly walking to school at 6 years old without a care in the world and the promises of the future. Now That’s What I Call Music was about to be given to me…

Dec 20 2014

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Take care – some ideas to get some work/life balance

By Mark Anderson Nurture One Comment

Originally posted on Staffrm, this is a post with some ideas about how you can get some balance with work & your personal life... I've had a lot to think about lately. I've seen lots of talk about the emotional well being of staff. The emotional well being of our…