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More than a decade of practical writing on EdTech, AI and digital strategy: what works, what doesn’t, and what it means for your classroom on Monday morning. Recognised as a Vuelio Top 10 UK education blog and UK Blog Awards Education winner, and a GESS Education Awards 2021 winner with LearnLiveUAE, with 9,630 subscribers reading every post.
There are so many companies out there trying to vie for your attention as a teacher, middle leader or senior leader. Education is big business and when it comes to technology in education, the costs involved often mean that technology is often the second most expensive item on the school…
There’s no getting away from it, Microsoft’s focus on driving new technologies forward to help those with accessibility needs have been pretty groundbreaking in recent times. The Immersive Reader that works within Office Lens is one such example. Simply take a photo of a document within Office Lens and have…
A quick search of my site will bring up a whole bunch of articles linked to the brilliant work that can be done with Book Creator. A long-time supporter of Book Creator, it has ranked highly on my list of essential tools for learning in the classroom. It has been…
Something I often struggle to do is to find meaningful videos to use as backgrounds. A while ago I found a great app which you can use to turn your previously taken photos into animated looped videos, simply by tweaking a few elements in your image. Here’s an example of…
I was lucky to work at the European iPad Conference just before half term and got to meet some amazing educators while I was there. It was a really great event and I was able to spend some time meeting and chatting with some of the attendees and presenters including…
We all need inspiration. Sometimes it’s the pay packet at the end of the month which motivates us, sometimes it’s job satisfaction, sometimes it’s a tweet we’ve seen or a blog post or book we’ve read. Sometimes it’s a colleague or a lesson of theirs that you’ve seen. All of…
The recent periodic table of iOS apps for AR & VR I created alongside Steve Bambury has been very popular. One of the apps that feature on the table in the ‘Story Telling’ section is a free app called Figment AR which is free and suitable for ages from 4+ according…
I am privileged to be able to do the work that I do and meet the amazing educators that I do too. I’ve always felt that the stories and ideas we share when I meet with teachers should have a much wider audience and so the idea of the ICT…
So if you haven’t noticed, Storify is shutting up shop and is now no longer accepting new users with the platform being closed down in May this year. It’s quite disappointing when this sort of thing happens. I was gutted when my initial blogging platform, ‘Posterous’ shut down all those…
One of the most exciting arenas for innovation in education with technology is that of augmented reality and virtual reality. I’ve been a fan of exploring how these types of apps can be used to support and enhance learning for a long time now. One of my first books on…
Workload has always been an issue in the teaching profession. Over the years I’ve picked up a few handy hints to help me get through it all. There are lots of free tools you can use to help you make your life that little bit easier and take off some…
In keeping with @87History’s popular retrieval practice challenge grids idea and linked post, I created some templates to help people. Retrieval Practice Challenge Grids to use this term – pupils to answer questions based on previous subject content. Recap, recall & revise! #TeachUAEchat #PedagooFriday #AussieEdchat #UKEdchat 🇦🇪📚 pic.twitter.com/yCWOGZOPdk — Kate Jones…
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