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Nov 15 2019

Ethics in #edtech, brand ambassadors and obligations

By Mark Anderson ADE, EdTech, educators, Ethics No Comments

I was involved in a conversation last night on the Book Creator Ambassador community site about ethics and edtech. I promised I'd write about my views and so here is the post... Back in 2017, the New York Times ran an article highlighting the potential ethical issues around brand ambassadorships.…

Oct 01 2019

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The Periodic Table of #FE Educators on Twitter to follow today

By Mark Anderson Education, educators, Free resource No Comments

Back in the summer, I was involved in a number of conversations about the creation of one of my periodic table designs, this time to highlight people to follow on Twitter from the FE sector. Lots of people were interested in it as a resource and so I started to…

Sep 12 2019

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Using Adobe Spark Post and Siri Shortcuts to make animated gifs

By Mark Anderson ADE, EdTech, Education, educators, iPad No Comments

I'm working at the University of Worcester tomorrow speaking to 150+ PGCE students about using Twitter for professional development, among other things. As part of that, here is a Twitter question I posed earlier. I've posed questions like this before and the response has always been phenomenal. Today has been…

May 13 2019

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Why am I on tour (and a free conference for you!)

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Education, educators, Food for thought No Comments

ICT Evangelist on Tour! This week sees me on the road visiting schools that are customers of Frog Education. With schools scrutinising every penny spent; teachers under increasing pressure to deal with issues in their school often with less resources and newly formed MATs and their schools dealing with bigger…

Mar 22 2019

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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 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…

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…

Sep 16 2018

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The Periodic Table of Educational Books to read today

By Mark Anderson Books, CPD, educators, Free resource, Learning No Comments

It is true to say that one of the best things (for me) about the education profession is that it is ever changing; always developing. As we learn more about how learning takes place and seek to do better by our learners in the classroom, we seek out new ideas,…

Jan 28 2018

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Bye bye Storify, hello Twitter Moments!

By Mark Anderson CPD, EdTech, educators, Social Media No Comments

So if you haven't noticed, Storify is shutting up shop and is now no longer accepting new users with the platform being closed down in May this year. It's quite disappointing when this sort of thing happens. I was gutted when my initial blogging platform, 'Posterous' shut down all those…

Jan 22 2018

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Three areas where edtech can help you and ways to do it

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Education, educators, Food for thought, ICT, Positivity, Resources No Comments

Workload has always been an issue in the teaching profession. Over the years I've picked up a few handy hints to help me get through it all. There are lots of free tools you can use to help you make your life that little bit easier and take off some…