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Dec 14 2020

#AppventCalendar Day Fourteen – Google Arts and Culture by @EdTechEvans

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Chrome, EdTech, Google, iPad No Comments

Welcome to Day Fourteen of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! Today's entry on the calendar, nominated and written about below by Tim Evans, Edtech Coordinator at the Stamford American School in Hong Kong, is a firm favourite for me. I won't steal any of Tim's thunder, but it gets a huge…

Dec 11 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day Eleven – Google Earth: Voyager

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Distance Learning, EdTech, Google No Comments

Welcome to Day Eleven of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! I’ve been a huge fan of Google Earth for a very long time. There are so many features and tools bundled with this app which can be easily missed. I believe Voyager is one such feature. Released as part of an…

Dec 03 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day Three – WriQ from @texthelp

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Chrome, EdTech, Education, Google, Literacy, Microsoft, Online Learning, Remote Learning, Workload No Comments

Welcome to Day Three of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! We are so pleased with the amazing engagement from educators around the world in this year’s Appvent Calendar. Described by Carmel Bones as ‘an annual tradition’, we are very proud to bring you some of the amazing tools, apps and services…

Dec 24 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Twenty-Four – Google Slides!

By Mark Anderson Appvent, EdTech, Google, Tools No Comments

Merry Christmas everyone. Thank you for joining me on this journey throughout December this year. It's been a fantastic experience, sharing tools that work and opportunities on how to best use them. It's been lovely too, to have the opportunity to invite a variety of guests to join me on…

Jun 27 2019

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Using project sharing and collaboration in @AdobeSpark

By Mark Anderson Chrome, Computing, EdTech, Education, Google No Comments

It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of the Adobe Spark suite of tools I've written about them and shared ways in which they can be used to support teaching and learning many times. Apart from it being completely free for schools to have the full Spark suite, in…

Jun 16 2019

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Tools to help create dual coding influenced resources

By Mark Anderson ADE, Computing, Free resource, Google No Comments

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…

Mar 31 2018

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April Fools and Easter Eggs #edtech style

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Google No Comments

So this year, Easter falls on the 1 April. This doesn't happen very often, but some things that do happen each year with annual regularity are the Easter Eggs and April fools tricks that lots of different #edtech companies put out there. One of my favourite April fools gags has…

Oct 05 2017

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Save time curating web resources for OneNote Class Notebook #MicrosoftEDU

By Mark Anderson Chrome, Google, Microsoft No Comments

I love Google Chrome. The extensions you can add to your Chrome browser are fab. Sure there are things you can do with Safari, Edge, Firefox... but nothing comes close really to the powerful Chrome browser. One of my new (to me) favourite extensions for Chrome has to be the…

Sep 29 2017

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Can you help to create tomorrow’s innovators? #LON17

By Mark Anderson Google No Comments

As part of the work that I do I get some great opportunities to do some fantastic things. Something I've been involved with over recent months has been in the role of a Google Innovative Mentor and so can I please introduce Sam Gibson from New Zealand who I've been…

Aug 25 2017

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Take your ‘book looks’ online for free

By Mark Anderson Education, Google, Leadership, T & L No Comments

A part of the work a good school does is check that the processes and systems are being consistently applied. One way that many schools do this is via a trawl through student / pupil books. Collating all that information into one space using paper based methods is laborious and…