Ever wanted to travel the world from your classroom? Perhaps to showcase a city or mountain range or historical monument or a location from the ancient world? The free website airpano.com contains hundreds of beautiful 3 dimensional virtual tours of beautiful locations all over the world which can make this…
I was asked to present at TMRochdale earlier this year but was unable to attend but agreed to do a virtual presentation. I was discussing the presentation with Abbie Mann and we decided to do the presentation together. The focus of the presentation was ‘ways to engage learning in the classroom‘….
It always amazes me the impact that blogging has. I met someone today, @ComptonAndy, at the Apple RTC conference near Birmingham. He said something to me along the lines of… “are you Mark Anderson of Twitter fame?” Crazy. But is it? I’m always bowled over by the positive comments from…
There’s a problem I’ve noticed over the years between the curriculum at primary and that of secondary. It’s almost like as the kids get older so their sense of curiosity awe and wonder gets beaten out of them at every single step. The recent changes to the National Curriculum at…
I’ve been working with RM Education at their Seminars this past week. My brief was to share with delegates ideas that would bring about memorable lessons for pupils. In the planning phases I was thinking about what I could do. How I could stand in front of 100 or so…
More Ed, Less Tech is the title of my new ‘One Best Thing’ book made following the ADE institute in Amsterdam earlier this year. It is an ongoing project that Apple asks its ADEs to complete at their institute for educators that takes place each year and I am so…
I have been curating a Padlet wall to embed in my new book uploaded to iBooks today (More Ed, Less Tech). Thanks to my amazing PLN there are now more than 100 different responses (with far more than 100 ideas) on iOS Apps and ideas for their use added to the…
Adobe Slate, the popular iPad App is now available to use for free in browser. The fact that you can now access this from your laptop, Chromebook, Macbook is very powerful. I’ve been a fan of Adobe Slate for some time. The number of Apps provided by Adobe on the…
This post examines how to make an impact with edtech in your school or classroom. I’ve been playing with Adobe Slate again… I can’t help myself… it is such a lovely tool to use. And so, in this post I explore more deeply the ideas originally used in this post on…
Explain Everything – probably one of the most written about Apps on my blog. It works on pretty much every device bar an Apple Watch and has the propensity to support and enhance learning in multitudes of different ways. I really love how the guys work too. They really listen…
Teaching is one of the few professions where, as you progress and climb the educational ladder, the job you are doing begins to become almost unrecognisable. The daily routine of the full time class teacher slowly starts to fade and in its place is something that begins to resemble a…
I wrote in my book about the power of using word clouds in the classroom. They are such a good tool for activities linked to literacy, problem solving and much more. The classic Wordle and Tagxedo still rank highly in my estimation but as more and more use of technology…
I wrote recently about adding fonts to your iOS devices and so I thought I would also share how you can add custom fonts to your Mac or PC too. It’s a really simple process. Before that though I thought I would share more about the brilliant dafont site. Dafont…
It’s no secret that I love Book Creator. It’s been a staple of my iPad workflow with students for a long time. Simple to use with the opportunity to enable pupils to create their own books; the power of publishing is simply epic in terms of the agency it gives…
I love Autumn. The change of the colours of trees. The drawing in of the evenings. Some people don’t like leaving and returning from work in the dark; me too, but those days where you catch those lovely autumnal sunsets and sunrises with that deep red winter sun are just…
I see so many teachers making the mistake of using Google Images and other image search tools to get images to use in their work. You can use search tools within the Google Image Search to ensure that you are only searching for creative commons free images by choosing the…
One of my bug bears is the limitation of fonts on my iPad. I mentioned in my post yesterday about wall displays that using fonts to add to your repertoire of title fonts for your displays can really make them sing. My favourite site for finding fonts is ‘Da Font and…
I love a good wall display. It can make the room or corridor come alive. I know how hard however it has been for me to get sorted with decent wall displays. My first head of department helped me loads. As an art teacher he taught me lots about how…
I love technology. Many are scared of using it, dreading that it will mess things up or, or worse still, be too hard to work out what to do. As a result they avoid it. I’d always argue, in the words of Bananarama, ‘It ain’t what you do, it’s the…
I want to be very clear from the outset… Technology can make a big difference. To students’ engagement. To students’ chances. To students’ outcomes. To students’ results. So let’s get IT right! There is no shadow of a doubt that the effects of mobile phones in a student’s pocket are…
On what occasion do you actually need to send an email to every member of your staff body? For me, there is nothing worse than being asked, “Haven’t you checked your emails yet today?” The fear of foreboding from what might be waiting there for you that the person who…
I was delighted to spend two days at the successful values based, Ledbury Primary School this week. My work there covered a number of areas including a digital parenting session for parents after school and some e-safety sessions, for Y1-5 but more on that in another post. Another part of…
What’s your favourite children’s book? That’s the question I asked recently on Twitter… Dear Twitter, could you pls share your favourite children's book on this Padlet wall for some Year 5's? >> http://t.co/pNr7XYpRMM Please RT — Mark Anderson (@ICTEvangelist) September 10, 2015 The response was really cool and thanks to…
Culture is really important. Get it wrong, things fall down around your ears. Get it right and you can be on to a winner! The term ‘branding’ as you’ll most likely know, comes from the age-old practice of charring the skin of your cattle with a mark. Sometimes this is done…
I’ve been a fan of Paper by 53 for years. When I first got it, you had to pay for the extra tools, so I got them. Then they added in colour mix, so I bought that too. The design was simply so beautiful and it was so intuitive…
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