‘Twas the night before EOS conf and right through the ship, Not a creature was stirring, not one little bit. Pirates in hammocks, they were not a stirring, In the still of the night, nothing was occurring. The sea-dogs were snoring, the waves gently lapping, Against the side of the…
I have to say, I really do love Adobe apps on my iPad and iPhone. One recent addition to their toolkit as mentioned in my post here ‘Social images create social engagement‘ is the fab little app, Adobe Post. Video source:Â https://post.adobe.com/ The app can be used in lots of different…
You know how it happens, you go on Twitter or you go to a Teachmeet; you get a new app or a new pedagogical idea for the classroom. You hear about or read a great blog post about a new pedagogical technique and know they would work a treat. You LOVE…
Do you remember when you first started teaching? Did you want to change the world? I did and still do. It’s still my driving force and mantra even now. To be able to share my ideas to such a wide audience and to spend time with educators face to face…
So are you an iPadNinja? Today at the TeachTechPlay conference in Melbourne I delivered a workshop looking at some of the great features of iPad. These features are the things that can make your life easier, speed up processes and link to making your iPad an even more user-friendly device…
In a series of great little apps for the classroom, please enter Microsoft’s Office Lens app (Android / iOS) which is free. Simply put, rather than taking a normal photograph of a document or whiteboard using your mobile device, open Office Lens and it will capture the document / board by…
There’s so much talk of how to make successful use of technology in the classroom. Even just yesterday afternoon, friend and Assistant Principal of Surbiton High School José Picardo was asking what to me seems (sorry) a blindingly obvious (to me) question on Twitter: Teachers: Now that we have Google, is it…
I love the School Report scheme that the BBC run via Newsround. We all remember the Newsrounds of our youth. For me it was John Craven who made me watch it whenever it was on. It was this report I saw recently on eight things teachers should learn, which got me…
Thanks to all involved last weekend for setting up the brilliant Primary Rocks day in Manchester. What struck me straight away were the brilliant pupils from Medlock Primary School who greeted us so warmly at the door with our goodie bags, a smile and a welcome. They were fantastic representatives…
TeachMeets are always a special occasion. Teachers being brave, sharing things from their classroom or personal learning journey…. What can I say – another brilliant event at the Quintin Kynaston school for #TMLondon. Expertly organised by Diane Leedham, Amjad Ali, Andy Lewis, Martin Burrett, Bennie Kara, myself; crafted by Ross McGill…
It’s no secret that I am a big advocate for student voice through the digital leader initiative. I’ve seen the initiative become such huge success stories for those schools that develop student digital leader groups. It was from this that I developed the digital leader academy to continue my work in…
It was a pleasure to be asked to speak at the Education Show again this year. My presentation focussed on some key areas of leadership specifically in relation to matters of digital integration in schools. I promised attendees to my session and a few on Twitter that I would share my…
As many long time readers of my blog will know I used to work at Clevedon School in North Somerset. It was a great learning journey working there for lots of different reasons. There were so many inspiring people to work with and reflecting upon my time there, it definitely…
It’s not any secret that I like a good graphic. There are a number of apps that can help you create great graphics, just from your iPhone or iPad and I’ve talked about a number of them in the past such as Typorama and Wordswag. Don’t get me wrong, you can…
#AppShareLive episode 4 took place on Saturday 12 March. Thanks so much to: Laurent Carlier Rachel Smith Laura Dickinson Cat Lamin Chris Copeman Nina Jackson John Hart …for sharing their fantastic ideas from the classroom. As with all of the #AppShareLive sessions, you can watch it again via YouTube –…
Want to experiment with music? Teach the Physics of sound? Take a look at Chrome Music Lab. Freely available via https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/ there are a number of tools there to help teach everything from rhythm to oscillation to soundwaves to spectograms and much more besides. As you can see from the above screenshot,…
This post contains an embedded live stream below of the #AppShareLive event happening right now on Google Hangouts. #AppShareLive is a live event with teachers from around the world sharing different iOS / iPad apps they use in the classroom which have an impact on learning. Hosted by me, Mark Anderson…
I read an article this week about tracking behaviour in school. I think that tracking pupil behaviour is a good thing. Attitudes towards learning have a massive impact upon how much learning actually takes place. Different schools have different approaches and that’s fine, you don’t have to do it digitally…
If you aren’t aware of Yakit Kids, where have you been? Yakit Kids is a free iPhone (which works on iPad) app that is super simple to use, great fun, but scalable in terms of its potential impact. Simply ask children to either screenshot or grab an image / photo…
My blog has taken a bit of a back-burner recently as I’ve been writing so much on Staffrm. I managed to write more than 29 blogs during the #29daysofwriting challenge. Whilst not my original idea, I brought it back up again on Staffrm and I was so pleased to see…
YouTube has so many things to offer teachers but often teachers veer away from it for fear of the comments that appear under videos or through or worries about inappropriate content. Truth is though, ask any child how they’ve taught themselves something, chances are they’ll come back and say YouTube. With…
Google Plus is overlooked by many educators when compared to Twitter and other social media, but it’s really worth looking at; particularly (in my opinion) if you are a Google Apps for Education school, but equally if you are not. It has lots of great features like Hangouts, Communities and…
Following on from yesterday’s popular crib sheet for Twitter, I thought I’d do one for Pinterest too. I’ve been a big fan of Pinterest in education for a long time now as discussed for example in this post from 2013. There is lots to love about it, both on a…
I wrote quite a long, detailed guide to Twitter for teachers back in April last year. It proved really popular, but it wasn’t really staffroom fodder and didn’t really fit onto a presentation slide either. With that in mind, I created a crib sheet version. I haven’t included one of…
Tonight was TeachMeet Bexley and organiser Rachel Swinburne asked me if I would supply a presentation. The focus of the presentation was about having a ‘Starter for 5’; 5 tips to help teachers and so I did just that. Tip 1 – related to #SID2016 Be aware of the slang…
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