Feedback from students who have been trialling the devices recently, 24/7 for over a month, can be found on the iClevedon blog here: http://iclevedon.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/10/ You can find out more by following the iClevedon twitter feed.
Following a recommendation I’ve just downloaded the ‘Blogsy’ app for iPad. As you’ll see from the screenshot, there are lots of built in formatting features, which if you’re a Posterous or Blogger user makes it super handy. It makes it super easy too to add in different media with the…
I recently blogged about the power of iBook Author and the new iBooks2, now I turn to iTunes U or the iTunes University app and how it also supports learning. The iTunes U app gives anyone with an iPad the opportunity to follow courses from hundreds of different…
I am pleased as punch to have found a way to link up my Dropbox account with iWork for iPad. And it’s easy. And it’s free. Check http://otixo.com Once you’ve signed up and linked Otixo to your Dropbox account (you can do it with Google Docs too – double…
You won’t have failed to notice the big launch by Apple a few months ago with various links to education. They released 3 big education related items that have (if they hadn’t already) made educational establishments really sit up and notice the iPad as a serious learning tool. iTunesU app…
Some of the best use I’ve seen of apps on the iPad is where teachers have engaged students using apps in conjunction with others. Filming activities, recording audio, adding the media to Keynote and annotating, demonstrating learning – that said, there are some great subject specific apps out there…
You may have read about the use of the two amazing apps Puppet Pals HD and iMovie in the classroom. These great apps (Puppet Pals HD basic is free, £1.99 for the Directors Pass which gives you some cool features such as using your own backgrounds – iMovie is £2.99)…
My wife was nice enough to buy me a stylus for my iPad for my Christmas stocking – she bought me the Wacom Bamboo Stylus from Amazon (Amazon link). Having not used a stylus on the iPad before I haven’t really got a baseline comparison to match it with. I’ve…
So it would appear that it really is the season to be jolly – I was overwhelmed (and a little late it would seem) to find out yesterday that my blog has been nominated for the Best EdTech blog in the 2011 Edublog awards. I would like to take this…
I’ve been searching for some time for an app which will allow me to create my own content and be able to publish it as an ePub. The benefits of being able to publish my own documents in to iBooks as resources for students that a media rich is something…
Among most of my friends it is common knowledge that from the ages of about 19 to 35 I DJ’d at umpteen bars and clubs across Europe and got to play at some enviable clubs and locations. From Ministry of Sound in London on their radio station and in their…
Popplet is a great tool which you can use for free online for a number of different reasons: A revision tool A presentation tool A mindmapping tool An idea collation tool A collaborative tool (you can connect with other Popplet users to collate ideas / work collaboratively) There are lots…
Twitter for developing a PLN What is a PLN? Many people describe it as their Personal or Professional Learning Network – certainly for me, joining Twitter has been the single best thing I have ever done in terms of developing myself professionally. My colleagues often comment about how they can’t…
Google Forms as a tool has probably been one of the single most important web based developments to support how I work in the classroom over the last few years. Whilst pretty simple to use, the power of the Google Form is in its flexibility in the many different ways…
Made using a combination of Audacity (@russellprue would be proud) and ‘Pocket Announcer’ app for iPad/iPhone: ICTEvangelist intro to #tmclevedon by ictevangelist
Here is my first little book of ICT ideas, first published in Sept 2010. Little Book of Superb Sites
Quad blogging – an opportunity for class blogs to get up and running by providing you with an audience, linking you with 3 other blogs (school). Each school takes it in turn to blog, 1 school each week. You can link with the types of class you wish by signing…
David talked about a SoL called the Learning Loop which has been created at Priory Community School in Weston-Super-Mare. He added that we want students to think but this can be very hard at times. In order to perform complex tasks we use memory and therefore, students need to learn…
Alessio spoke about how imindmap 5 can create attractive mindmaps which allow creativity within the classroom as well as incorporating images into diagrams as well as text. Plus audio attachments means that the software suddenly opens up to a whole new variety of subjects to this style of presenting –…
The lovely Kat Crocker spoke about rocketing up your tutor group. She spoke about top tips for tutor time and things that have worked well at Clevedon School… – go vertical – give them jobs to do – get organised by tracking students carefully – plan your time together, quality…
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