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Mar 22 2019

The best (free) #edtech tool you’ll discover this week

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Education, educators, ICT, T & L, Tools No Comments

With it being Friday I thought I'd fire out a quick post that I've been meaning to share for some time. Often, the best edtech for the classroom is a) something developed by a teacher, b) is super simple to use, c) free, and d) works in browser on all…

Mar 18 2019

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How to ensure value for money when purchasing #edtech

By Mark Anderson EdTech, ICT, Infographics, Leadership, Microsoft No Comments

Originally posted as part of my Summer takeover on the Microsoft Education blog, this post explores the different ways you can ensure value for money when purchasing technology for your school. One of the most difficult things a school has to focus on is achieving value for money for its…

Mar 08 2019

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Ways to make your classroom more accessible and inclusive with #MicrosoftEDU

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, EdTech, educators, Inclusion, Microsoft No Comments

Originally posted as part of my Summer takeover on the Microsoft Education blog, this post explores the ways in which you can use Microsoft tools to make your classroom more accessible and inclusive... One of the most beautiful parts of the role of the teacher is that ability you have…

Mar 07 2019

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How to create a scrolling text animation in Keynote for Mac

By Mark Anderson ADE, EdTech, Free resource, Resources No Comments

I recently had a conversation with a teacher on Twitter who wanted to create a presentation slide with scrolling text: https://twitter.com/ICTEvangelist/status/1102582990096531458 As Jules didn't have access to Pages for iPad I thought i'd help by creating a video to show how to do it using just animation in Keynote on…

Feb 07 2019

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A great free VR app for iOS that can help with oracy, presentations and more

By Mark Anderson EdTech, ICT, iPad, VR No Comments

One of the reasons I started organising Teachmeets many moons ago was because I wanted to give myself the opportunity to present in front of my peers without my knees knocking, sweating and feeling full of imposter syndrome - if I'm honest, it still happens now but through practice comes…

Jan 30 2019

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The Periodic Table of iOS Apps for AR and VR 2019

By Mark Anderson AR, EdTech, Featured, Free resource, Tools, VR No Comments

One of my most popular resources in recent years has been my periodic tables. I’ve made a number of them, namely: The Periodic Table of iPad Apps (with various updates for new iOS releases) The Periodic Table of iPad STEAM Apps The Periodic Table of iPad Apps for AR and VR …

Nov 14 2018

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Catch up with day two of the #Edtech50 schools tour

By Mark Anderson EdTech, edtech50, Education, educators, ICT, Leadership, Learning No Comments

So we've been on tour now for three days. Day two was the Welsh leg and we had some fantastic visits to schools. The first of which was to Bro Edern near Cardiff. An iPad 1:1 school, we met with Ceri Anwen James who gave us a tour of the school…

Oct 25 2018

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A great VR app for learners and teachers alike!

By Mark Anderson EdTech, iPad, T & L, VR No Comments

There are many reasons why I love Teachmeets; the learning, new ideas, networking, a chance to win a prize - there are lots of them. One of the reasons I started organising Teachmeets was because despite being perfectly happy standing in front of a class or students and speaking or even…

May 30 2018

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Data, information and knowing your learners

By Mark Anderson Cognitive Science, Curriculum, Data, EdTech, Education, Food for thought No Comments

Whether you like it or not data and knowing how to understand, interpret and analyse it is an important facet of the modern educator. There are lots of systems that you probably use every day that hold lots of data; you've probably had about 4235242 emails from them recently about GDPR…

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…