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Apr 12 2015

Google do it again with Snapseed update

By Mark Anderson EdTech One Comment

One of the staples of my mobile photo-editing Apps for a very long time has been Google's 'Snapseed'. Original Snapseed icon It has always had some really impressive features all in the one App. From tune-up options such as cropping and image adjustments for contrast, brightness etc. through to…

Mar 02 2015

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The Power of the Visual for learning

By Mark Anderson EdTech 11 Comments

Visuals are so powerful. Carl Hendrick wrote recently about motivational posters recently here and I tend to agree when they're used out of context, however I think visualisations can be a great learning tool, particularly when students make them themselves. We can embed learning linked to numeracy in lots of…

Feb 07 2015

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Paper by 53, for creativity and learning #appaday

By Mark Anderson EdTech 2 Comments

If Explain Everything is the best app for learning on the App store, then Paper by 53 wins the most beautiful App for learning available. If you haven't come across it yet, you're missing out. With its beautiful, intuitive and simple design it's no wonder it has won so many awards.…

Feb 04 2015

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QR Codes, how to simply create and read #appaday

By Mark Anderson EdTech 5 Comments

QR codes are simply awesome. I've blogged about them before such as here and here. There are a tonne of different apps and websites that you can use to both create and read them. For me it has been clear for a long time that accessing information, geo-locations or links to…

Feb 03 2015

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Haiku Deck for presenting learning #appaday

By Mark Anderson EdTech 7 Comments

If you've had the pleasure of meeting me in the last twelve months or so undoubtedly I would have mentioned Haiku Deck. It is one of my favourite apps. If you haven't come across it, Haiku Deck is free presentation software which works on pretty much every platform. There's an…

Feb 01 2015

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Thinglink in the classroom

By Mark Anderson EdTech 5 Comments

A tool I've used many times in the classroom is Thinglink. I often forget how brilliant it is for lots of different purposes: shared curation of resources and research a place to put contextual links to different elements of a project a way to share learning a way to explain…

Jan 01 2015

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Appsmashlive 3 – workflows, creativity, photography, animation and coding

By Mark Anderson EdTech No Comments

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:

Dec 23 2014

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Google vs Apple in Education

By Mark Anderson EdTech 8 Comments

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,…

Nov 11 2014

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How can teachers get the best out of edtech? #BettChat

By Mark Anderson EdTech 3 Comments

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…