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Dec 16 2022

On the #Appvent22 calendar today we have the #MeasureApp shared by @ReallySchoolK from @NetSupportGroup #AppleEDUchat

By Mark Anderson ADE, Appvent, iPad, iPad apps, Learning No Comments

Welcome to Day 15 on the Appvent Calendar! Today we have a great suggestion for an AR tool from Apple that has lots of applications for use in the classroom for supporting a wide variety of Maths activities. Suggested and shared by Kat Cauchi, Former teacher and Community Engagement Manager…

Oct 25 2021

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Five ways Siri can help you be more efficient and productive

By Mark Anderson ADE, iPad No Comments

Many of us will know how annoying our virtual assistants can be, listening in to everything we do ready and raring to "help us" perform a variety of tasks, but how often do you use yours other than to perhaps call someone? In this short post, I'll share a few…

Sep 07 2021

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5 great things to try with Apple Clips this year

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, ADE, Appvent, EdTech, iPad, iPad apps No Comments

Apple Clips has been around for a few years now. It’s a clever app for iPad and iPhone for making short video clips that can be enhanced in any number of ways using emoji, text, symbols, green-screen effects, AR and more! It’s become a firm favourite in many Primary school…

Dec 15 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day Fifteen – Numbers from @AppleEDU shared by @Mrs_Educate

By Mark Anderson ADE, Appvent, EdTech, iPad, iPad apps, Tools No Comments

Welcome to Day 15 of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! Often it is the tools that come as standard with your operating system or productivity suite that can help make the most difference to your everyday work for teaching and learning. Today's recommendations by ADE, @Mrs_Educate is exactly one of these…

Dec 05 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day Five – @anchor, by @PhuHua

By Mark Anderson ADE, Appvent, EdTech, Guest posts, Oracy No Comments

Welcome to Day Five of the Appvent Calendar 2020! As we’ve alluded to in all of the entries so far on the Appvent Calendar 2020, all of the tools shared so far have had a big impact on learners, teachers and our communities across the year. When lockdowns started across…

Feb 05 2020

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Interactive Periodic Table of #ARVRinEDU Apps for #iPadOS

By Mark Anderson ADE, EdTech, Education, educators, Featured, Free resource, ICT, iPad, Resources No Comments

I love being a teacher and working in education. In my role now I am very fortunate to work with educators as I do now. Wherever I travel in the world, people comment on the different periodic tables that I've made over the years. Even just this last week in…

Dec 15 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Fifteen – @MrsWraithmell

By Mark Anderson ADE, Appvent, AR, EdTech, ICT, iPad No Comments

Hello and welcome to another post on the AppVent Calendar! Something I love about the work I do is seeing how my work inspires others to do the same and the AppVent calendar is no different! It's been fabulous this year to see other's start sharing their own edtech focussed…

Nov 15 2019

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Ethics in #edtech, brand ambassadors and obligations

By Mark Anderson ADE, EdTech, educators, Ethics No Comments

I was involved in a conversation last night on the Book Creator Ambassador community site about ethics and edtech. I promised I'd write about my views and so here is the post... Back in 2017, the New York Times ran an article highlighting the potential ethical issues around brand ambassadorships.…

Sep 19 2019

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Ten MORE things every educator should be able to do with their iPad

By Mark Anderson ADE, EdTech, ICT, iPad, Tools, Work with me No Comments

A while ago I wrote a post which signalled a solid baseline level of ten things every teacher should be able to do with their iPad. It has been very popular and a recent resurgence in its popularity at the beginning of the academic year shows it is still just…

Sep 12 2019

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Using Adobe Spark Post and Siri Shortcuts to make animated gifs

By Mark Anderson ADE, EdTech, Education, educators, iPad No Comments

I'm working at the University of Worcester tomorrow speaking to 150+ PGCE students about using Twitter for professional development, among other things. As part of that, here is a Twitter question I posed earlier. I've posed questions like this before and the response has always been phenomenal. Today has been…