Mark Anderson - ICTEvangelist

Jan 03 2014

Be happy (in this new year)

By Mark Anderson Articles 6 Comments

Be happy and welcome in the new year with your learners. My timeline is full of teachers who are anxious about returning to work on Monday. There has been a flurry of planning, marking and general knot-tying of stomachs about the demands and responsibilities that may face us in the…

Dec 29 2013

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10 ways to use iBook Author in education

By Mark Anderson EdTech 7 Comments

Obviously not exhaustive, but a few more 'creative' ideas for using Apple's brilliant free piece of software, iBook Author rather than the traditional ways you might use it. 1 - An obvious use it to write your own iBook about your teaching practice, so that you can share your ideas…

Dec 28 2013

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Google Image Search (using images)

By Mark Anderson My Screencasts 3 Comments

Just a short video to show how to search for images on Google Image search using existing images. I find this particularly useful when either searching for higher resolution versions of images I already have or when I'm looking for similar images that I already have. Have fun!

Dec 27 2013

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My #Nurture1314

By Mark Anderson T & L One Comment

#Nurture1314 Reflection: I guess it's somewhat fitting that in what may have been one of my most successful (professionally) to date, this is my 251st post on my blog and that since starting counting in April my blog has had more than 126,000 unique visitors. Reflecting upon what I've managed…

Dec 27 2013

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Has having iPads in your classroom changed teaching & learning?

By Mark Anderson iPad 3 Comments

Following discussions on Twitter, I combined comments, replies and posts to the question at the title of this post in to a Storify - read the responses below.

Dec 15 2013

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Workflow?

By Mark Anderson EdTech 2 Comments

Workflow - the way in which work flows from one application or person to another in order to progress and develop said work either by addition or development through peer, teacher formative feedback and critique. Anyone want to add anything to that to develop the explanation further when it comes…

Dec 15 2013

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5 techniques for questioning in your classroom

By Mark Anderson T & L 8 Comments

I'm a big fan of Twitter - short messages, getting your point across succinctly... with that in mind, I'm going to keep this post short and sweet. Just five tried and tested techniques to assist with questioning in your classroom. One of the features of an outstanding classroom is one where…

Dec 15 2013

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Safer Internet Day 2014

By Mark Anderson EdTech No Comments

I've been struck recently by the lack of coverage of e-safety by some of the people I talk with on Twitter and elsewhere. E-safety and the safeguarding of our young people online is of paramount importance. I'll be writing more about this in the near future, but as part of…

Dec 02 2013

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Explain Everything for superb student feedback

By Mark Anderson iPad 14 Comments

Those of you that know me will know that I've been a massive fan of Explain Everything for a very long time now. It's widely regarded as one of the best apps for learning on iPad and quite rightly so. As a device for supporting flipped learning it is brilliant.…