Mark Anderson - ICTEvangelist

May 29 2013

A free app with wins for the teacher & wins for the student

By Mark Anderson ICT, iPad, iPad apps, T & L 12 Comments

Moldiv - a free app with wins for the teacher & wins for the student I don't write about or recommend many apps but this is a free app with wins for the teacher & wins for the student. It's really simple to use and has got some great features.…

May 29 2013

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Pinterest for teachers

By Mark Anderson EdTech, iPad, T & L 24 Comments

Pinterest for education Pinterest of interest? As a topic, Pinterest for teachers in education has been giving me some thought for some time. Having been lured to Pinterest a while ago, the more I use it the more I can see Pinterest for teachers being of use, but also…

May 28 2013

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Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge

By Mark Anderson T & L 74 Comments

Technology, Pedagogy, & Content Knowledge model Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge The Technology, Pedagogy and Content Knowledge model or TPACK for short has been around for some time. It builds upon the work of Lee Shulman and extends his idea of Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Matthew Koehler and Punya Mishra expand…

May 25 2013

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Reflecting on the Teachmeet landscape & #SLTeachMeet

By Mark Anderson CPD, Home, T & L 11 Comments

As we approach another Teachmeet at #TMClevedon I've been reflecting about the Teachmeet landscape around the globe now and it is great to see how they're developing more and more. Internal teachmeets which I first heard @jamieportman talk about a few years ago now are happening at lots of schools. Specialist…

May 19 2013

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How to embed QR codes in to pictures

By Mark Anderson ICT 21 Comments

I've long sung the praises of using QR codes as a vehicle to support learning with these two posts being two such examples: https://ictevangelist.com/how-to-make-use-of-qr-codes-with-your-ipad-teachers-students/ ...and I'm not the only person either: http://deeplearning.edublogs.org/2012/08/02/qr-codes-and-documenting-brilliant-learning/#.UZjtiLWTiSo There are lots of places online that you can use to create your own QR codes for free…

May 04 2013

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Creating your own school iPad App

By Mark Anderson Digital Leaders, iClevedon, iPad 9 Comments

I remember when I was a teenager. I know you might think that would be a difficult thing for me to do, what with it being so long ago and all that. It actually wasn't all that long ago though. Ok, so maybe 25 years ago is a fair amount…

Apr 30 2013

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I ♥ SAMR

By Mark Anderson EdTech, T & L 4 Comments

There's been a fair bit of mention of the SAMR framework recently so I thought I'd share another rendition of the framework. I've always preferred looking at it in a vertical sense, moving upwards rather than a top down looking model. It makes more sense to me. What do…

Apr 20 2013

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Digital Citizenship & a poster for your school

By Mark Anderson EdTech, ICT, Posters 32 Comments

Digital Citizenship is an area of massive importance and if you're interested you should really check some of the links at the end of this post. Following JISC and looking at their work and connecting with the likes of @dughall, @simfin and @dajbelshaw among many others and @naace would be…

Apr 02 2013

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Progress in my classroom with Socrative

By Mark Anderson T & L 10 Comments

This is a blogpost in line with the April BlogSync project here How many people in this month's blogsync are going to use this image in their post? Quite a few I imagine, because like in many classrooms around the country, I suspect progress looks and sounds the same. "They…

Apr 02 2013

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Unleash infographic creativity with Grafio

By Mark Anderson Infographics, iPad, iPad apps 4 Comments

It's not often that I write a specific post on a specific app but I am today. I've been using the app 'Grafio' for some time now. I found it because I was looking for an app that I could use to create my own infographics (a diagram that plots…