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Feb 07 2015

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…

Oct 21 2014

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Technology integration with SAMR & tools that support it

By Mark Anderson EdTech 2 Comments

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…