Streamed live on December 30th, this AppSmash Live featured educators from all over the globe sharing their ideas. Big thanks to Richard Wells (@iPadWells), Joe Dale (@JoeDale) and Jenny Ashby (@jjash) for joining me in this session. Watch it back again now below:
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Who would have thought it? Google now have an impressive number of apps available on the iOS App Store which can help, support and enhance learning. Of the 32 available that are optimised for iPad, I can easily see there being use for most of them in a learning space,…
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What a day today on #BettChat. Lots of engagement and ideas flowing. To help keep a record of the discussion, I took the tweets from the chat and added them to a Storify which you can read and check out below. It was as always a fast and furious debate…
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I read a lot of blogs. There's some heady work out there. For example I just read a (yet another) great blog by John Tomsett on student-centred leadership. A subject close to my heart particularly given the work I did at Clevedon with the brilliant John Wells on student focused…
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If you read my blog you probably know that I don't really do technology for technology's sake. I was recently asked to be involved in a Teachmeet by the lovely Nikki Gilbey (check her blog here too) with a technology focus and wondered about what to talk about. I had recently…
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Google's Teacher Academy (#GTAUK) is taking place later this month and I am honoured and pleased to have been accepted. I'll blog more about the event as and when it happens. In the mean time I thought I would share my application video. I'm very much looking forward to the…
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Being a parent is no easy task. Not only do you have to deal with the constant requests for help in all the different ways that our children ask for it, there’s also the pressure of keeping them safe; on the way to and from school; when they’re taking part…
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Google Slides for iOS is here and I have to say I am pretty impressed. Making the triumvirate of Google Docs and Sheets whole, for a free app on your iPhone or iPad that gives you access to a presentation tool, it is really good. To say that it is everything…
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Thanks to the #ukedchat team for asking me to be involved again in another session. A bit quieter than usual with it being the Easter break but a great conversation and sharing of ideas took place as per usual. Please see a summary below in a Storify from the chat.…
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I've sung the praises of Gooru for some time now but haven't blogged about it and thought it was about time that I did. Gooru is great as a launch page for browsers in schools because of the content it kicks you off with. It might not give you the…
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