Welcome to day three of #Appvent22, and what a great two days we have had already with our two reveals so far. With yesterday’s superb tool for promoting whole school wellbeing, Welbee and our first day’s reveal of FormTimeIdeas.com we’re really proud to be sharing impactful tools to help schools…
Welcome to Day Two of #Appvent22. We are delighted to share another calendar of superb apps, tools, and services. With a great start to the event yesterday, we proceed today with an award-winning platform that is having a huge impact on staff wellbeing. Staff wellbeing has rightly become a hot…
Day 01 – FormTimeIdeas Welcome to this, the first day of the 2022 Appvent Calendar! I am so excited to share the 24 amazing apps, their resources, ideas and opportunities for supporting learning, teaching and maybe even reducing some workload along the way over the coming 24 days in the…
There are a few people who won’t like what I’m going to say in this post, some may even see it as a personal attack, but it isn’t. I’ll start by saying, I have respect for the person who coined the phrase, @FionaAS. For those who know me and my…
Thankfully, the face of CPD in education (that’s Continuing Professional Development, with the emphasis on the Continuing element) has been changing in recent years. I’ve always recognised the importance of certain types of INSET activity, such as: bringing colleagues together to share whole school data and results when everyone comes…
I’ve written a number of posts about QR codes over the years such as this one and this one, including ideas for their use in education. You’d think given their age, they might be a bit old hat now, but they’re still super useful as reference points in lots of…
Like it or not, making resources is part of the bread and butter of being a teacher. Sometimes it involves making an explainer video, sometimes it’s creating a presentation or a keyword challenge grid, resources to go on wall displays or templates for book reviews for your students… Resources are…
There are lots of reasons why touch devices have been so popular and successful as learning devices in the classroom. Their functionality and responsiveness have meant that whether you’re a teacher working with our youngest learners or in the later years of formal education, you can literally have the world…
In a recently made available study on sequencing, Roelle, Froese, Krebs, Obergassel and Waldeyer shared some interesting highlights in their paper “Sequence matters! Retrieval practice before generative learning is more effective than the reverse order”. The paper certainly reinforces previous findings related to spaced practice and retrieval practice. It should…
I’ve long been a fan of Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Adobe Spark and still completely free for education) and with their relatively recent updates, you can now not just collaborate on designs that you’ve made but you can also share remixable templates. Pretty cool huh? I use them personally…
Teaching coding isn’t easy, I know, I did it for many years. It was particularly difficult for me because, like many teachers of ICT and Computing, it wasn’t my specialist subject. Sure, I had some coding experience from my youth, spending many happy hours typing in code from a magazine…
My work with schools most commonly focuses on a number of key areas. Primarily it is based on teaching and learning with technology, purposeful and effective approaches to using technology in the classroom, leadership support around digital strategy and what the evidence says works when it comes to technology in…
Speaking and listening is the cornerstone of any classroom (and if not, why not?!) but how can technology help with oracy? Activities such as role-play, debate, discussion, and dialogue are all great ways to promote oracy in the classroom but how can technology help? Well, you’ll be pleased to learn…
In historical and religious terms, pillars have often represented the bridge between heaven and earth. If you visit some of the great Cathedrals across Europe, many of their architects used huge pillars inside with religious the symbolism Columns or pillars are familiar features of Church architecture that serve the purpose…
Anyone who knows my work in education and technology will know that it always starts with either the pedagogy or how it can improve systems and/or processes. A great starting point for that is to take a good long look at the evidence. This can come in many forms such…
A short post here but thought worthy of sharing for its helpful nature. Followers of my work will know that I frequently share about aggregated marginal gains to your edtech use that when combined, can bring a cumulative impact to your efficiency, workload and more. One such approach is looking…
An adaptation of an article I wrote for the NetSupport guide to Bett 2022, this post seeks to share advice about the conversations you have with technology vendors when considering purchasing them for your establishment. Buying technology can be a bit of a minefield so how can you distinguish between…
Originally introduced in iOS 14, this feature is so useful yet despite being really helpful in lots of scenarios for iPhone users, I am still amazed at the number of people who haven’t heard of it or stumbled upon it. In writing this article I read one author talk about…
The Appvent Calendar this year has been something I’m truly proud of. With contributors from around the world representing diverse voices from across education, the calendar has shared 23 great tools for supporting various aspects of teaching, learning, sharing, creativity, project management, literacy, numeracy and so much more. It would…
Welcome to today’s Appvent Calendar entry, suggested by Bukky Yusuf. The app she is sharing today is the productivity and project management tool, Asana! I have always been a fan of Trello, however, 2021 was the year that I was introduced to Asana and I have quickly become a…
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