Beautiful calendar templates for home learning and other activities such as those linked to positive mental health activities are all the rage at the moment. I was thrilled to work with GoBubble to create the calendar for their month of activities this month. It also meant I got to work with…
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I love being a teacher and working in education. In my role now I am very fortunate to work with educators as I do now. Wherever I travel in the world, people comment on the different periodic tables that I've made over the years. Even just this last week in…
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Morning and welcome to Day Nineteen of the AppVent Calendar! Today's entry isn't going to transform your teaching or even the learning of your students. That said, it is one of a few tools I use to ensure that when I share images either socially or within presentations I deliver,…
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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…
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As many will know, Dual Coding is definitely in vogue right now. I'm not going to sit here and echo chamber the great work being done by many - you can find out lots more about dual coding on the learningscientists.org site, for example. What I am going to do…
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At BETT in January I launched two Periodic Tables, one for AR and VR which I collaborated on with Steve Bambury and this second table, focused upon apps for learning. It is not the same as the AR and VR table. Whilst both tables are broken down into categories, the…
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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…
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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 …
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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,…
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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…
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