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Dec 24 2020

Welcome, as we open the final day on the 2020 #AppventCalendar and we find @BookCreatorApp!

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Books, Chrome, Computing, EdTech, iPad No Comments

Welcome to day 24, the final day of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! What a fantastic selection of great apps we’ve had across the 24 days this year. Alongside my entries and guest entries, this year I’ve extended the initiative across not just ictevangelist.com but across to the global-edtech.com team…

Dec 14 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day Fourteen – Google Arts and Culture by @EdTechEvans

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Chrome, EdTech, Google, iPad No Comments

Welcome to Day Fourteen of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! Today's entry on the calendar, nominated and written about below by Tim Evans, Edtech Coordinator at the Stamford American School in Hong Kong, is a firm favourite for me. I won't steal any of Tim's thunder, but it gets a huge…

Dec 08 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day Eight – @justMoteHQ

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Chrome, Learning, Online Learning, Remote Learning No Comments

Welcome to Day 8 of the 2020 Appvent Calendar. As with many of the entries on the calendar this year and a hallmark of many a good edtech company or app, today’s entry has really come into its own in supporting both a reduction in teacher workload, evidence-informed uses of…

Dec 03 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day Three – WriQ from @texthelp

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Chrome, EdTech, Education, Google, Literacy, Microsoft, Online Learning, Remote Learning, Workload No Comments

Welcome to Day Three of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! We are so pleased with the amazing engagement from educators around the world in this year’s Appvent Calendar. Described by Carmel Bones as ‘an annual tradition’, we are very proud to bring you some of the amazing tools, apps and services…

Jun 27 2019

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Using project sharing and collaboration in @AdobeSpark

By Mark Anderson Chrome, Computing, EdTech, Education, Google No Comments

It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of the Adobe Spark suite of tools I've written about them and shared ways in which they can be used to support teaching and learning many times. Apart from it being completely free for schools to have the full Spark suite, in…

Jun 26 2019

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Book Creator bring AI into its popular app with AutoDraw

By Mark Anderson Chrome, EdTech, ICT, Learning, Literacy No Comments

I've always loved Book Creator. For me, it embodies the very best of edtech in that it is versatile enough to be used with learners of all ages, has uses across all ages, is simple to use and can be used in lots of different ways to support teaching and…

May 09 2018

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Educator collaboration made this free book possible

By Mark Anderson Books, Chrome, EdTech, Education, Free resource, Learning, Literacy No Comments

A few months ago I wrote about Book Creator and how they have opened up collaboration on their online Chrome based platform for Book Creator. My immediate thoughts were (in this order): Awesome When will this come to iPad (the answer is 'soon') How can we as educators model some…

Mar 01 2018

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Collaboration feature now available in Book Creator for Chrome!

By Mark Anderson Books, Chrome, EdTech, Learning No Comments

A quick search of my site will bring up a whole bunch of articles linked to the brilliant work that can be done with Book Creator. A long-time supporter of Book Creator, it has ranked highly on my list of essential tools for learning in the classroom. It has been…

Oct 05 2017

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Save time curating web resources for OneNote Class Notebook #MicrosoftEDU

By Mark Anderson Chrome, Google, Microsoft No Comments

I love Google Chrome. The extensions you can add to your Chrome browser are fab. Sure there are things you can do with Safari, Edge, Firefox... but nothing comes close really to the powerful Chrome browser. One of my new (to me) favourite extensions for Chrome has to be the…

Aug 20 2017

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The best sites for finding high-quality, free images

By Mark Anderson Chrome, Education, educators, Learning, Resources No Comments

So often we want to find images to use in our everyday work. Google images doesn't really provide the answers when it comes to high quality CC free images. Digital citizenship is high on the agenda for pupils and students but equally so for teachers too. In this post I'll…