Welcome to day fifteen of #Appvent22, and what a great two weeks we have had. We would like to say a big thank you to everyone that has contributed to making this a success so far. With yesterday’s superb tool for reducing anxiety levels, Molehill Mountain, and our very first…
Today on Day 15 we welcome Caroline Keep as our guest contributor to the Appvent Calendar. An educator, data scientist, national TES award-winning teacher and fellow FED member, Caroline has many accolades under her belt. Her current work sees her as a Doctoral Researcher in developing digitalisation tools in education…
Welcome to day thirteen of #Appvent22, and we really hope you are enjoying the apps we have reviewed thus far! Today’s entry was written by Aleks House. Aleks is an ESOL learner, teacher, TLA manager, and Google Certified Educator. With over twelve years of experience, Aleks is part of a…
I’m delighted to bring you a tool that’s not only of vital importance in edtech, the curriculum, and education as a whole but also a handy companion for all things collaboration within and across schools! ProjectEVOLVE is a FREE cloud-based platform that “resources each of the 330 statements from UK…
Welcome to Day 11 of the #Appvent22 Appvent Calendar! When it comes to good technology in education, it has to be fit for purpose. Whether that’s helping in the classroom, supporting an initiative across the school such as well-being or timetabling or in a specific subject area; the common theme…
On this, day 10 of the #AppventCalendar I share a tool that has been a delight to showcase with many of the schools with which I work, and has been well received the world over, from teachers to parents. Today, it gives me great pleasure today to share the great…
We are loving the #Appvent22 calendar so far this year. With a broad and diverse range of tools to promote learning, creativity, maths and science, immersion, classroom management and well-being, it was only right that we took time to explore a tool that promotes and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion….
Today’s contribution comes from someone who has been a long-standing (some might say long-suffering) member of my PLN, Jérôme Nogues. A Head of Digital and also the Head of Languages at a Prep school in the UK, Jérôme is a strong advocate for the use of technology to promote learning…
Today’s entry comes from my partner in edtech, Ronan Mc Nicholl. The powerhouse behind almost everything on the Global Edtech site, Ronan is also the Head of Digital Learning at Berkhamsted Prep. Over to Ronan… Recently I have been exploring opportunities to incorporate immersive experiences in my lessons. Many teachers…
It gives me great delight to share now>press>play as today’s entry on the Appvent Calendar. As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader of my work or sharing on social media, my view is that technology provides the opportunity to improve many things but it can also improve absolutely nothing,…
Often with technology, it isn’t the most amazing things that technology can do with things such as AR and VR that make it an effective tool. Often, it’s the more mundane end of the spectrum that makes your life simpler and easier that helps you to reduce workload or speed…
Welcome to Day Five of #Appvent22! Today’s offering is shared by the Director of IT and MIEExpert from Millfield School, Gary Henderson. A big supporter of all things Edtech, and a regular blogger on his own blog – here’s Gary’s choice for today’s Appvent22 entry – over to you, Gary……
Welcome to day four of the 2022 Appvent Calendar. Today we look at and explore a tool that is the perfect edtech companion for any teacher to use to support the teaching and learning of maths and science. The perfect edtech companion for any Maths or Science teacher. Equatio is…
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…
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