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Sep 03 2017

Make your videos vintage with 8mm

By Mark Anderson EdTech, iPad, Video No Comments

This week saw the 8mm app go free on the app store and I shared it on Twitter. Hurry as it still may be free. Usual price is $1.99. https://twitter.com/ICTEvangelist/status/903541062333075456 The 8mm app allows you to film using some really brilliant filters to make what you are filming look like…

Aug 31 2017

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Making waves with Apple technologies in Hackney

By Mark Anderson EdTech, educators, iPad, Leadership, Learning, Pedagogy first, Work with me No Comments

It has been my distinct privilege to work over the course of the past year with the New Wave Federation in London. Already an established centre of excellence around teaching, learning and standards under the leadership of their Executive Headteacher, Michelle Thomas. I have been working with them on a…

Aug 13 2017

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Wellbeing, workload and whizzy ways to improve both

By Mark Anderson CPD, EdTech, ICT, iPad No Comments

Goodness knows mental health and wellbeing is an issue which is underfunded and under resourced so it was a real pleasure to be asked to keynote at the Cardiff and Vale College's Inset days exploring both wellbeing and mental health. My keynote focussed upon how we can use technology to…

Jun 04 2017

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Apple nail teaching and learning with the latest version of their Classroom App

By Mark Anderson iPad, Pedagogy first No Comments

I'm a great believer in taking lots of small steps to make a bigger gain. Incremental improvements that you get better and better at through deliberate practice is one of those things that make us better teachers in the classroom. Often when it comes to technology, one of the biggest…

Apr 30 2017

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My favourite thing ON my iPad

By Mark Anderson EdTech, iPad No Comments

In my series of secret #edtech weapons, for my third post I thought I would share the amazing G-Hold that I have on my iPad. I was approached some time in 2016 by Alison Grieve on Twitter. She had developed a product to go onto your tablet which she called…

Apr 27 2017

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Secret #edtech weapons #2 – @Quik_App

By Mark Anderson iPad No Comments

As a teacher, making effective use of edtech can be difficult because in order to get a great looking product to share with children to support their learning can take time. Not with Quik by GoPro though. Don't get me wrong, I love iMovie and Adobe's Premiere Clip but whilst they…

Apr 08 2017

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5 ways to use Apple Clips in the classroom

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Education, iPad, iPad apps No Comments

Apple Clips has landed and it does what all successful edtech does, it makes showing learning simple. It has a low entry point in terms of technical ability required to use it but is hugely scalable in terms of the depth of knowledge being shown as I'll demonstrate later. I can see…

Mar 03 2017

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App Top Trumps cards for educators

By Mark Anderson iPad, iPad apps No Comments

Ok, so I'm not really talking about App Top Trumps, although thank you to Joe Baldwin for sending me an actual Apps Top Trumps game following some work at his college. His lovely gift contained classics such as Angry Birds, Crossy Road, etc. It got me thinking about something a…

Mar 01 2017

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The new Periodic Table of iPad Apps for Primary aged pupils

By Mark Anderson iPad No Comments

I've always enjoyed thinking of ideas about how we can utilise technology for purposeful means in the classroom. It is often we see the simplest ideas making the biggest impact on teaching and learning. I'm still asked regularly for apps for particular subjects, asking children to use devices as sources of information…

Feb 14 2017

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The AR app for the Science classroom?

By Mark Anderson AR, ICT, iPad, iPad apps, Learning No Comments

I've long been a fan of using augmented reality and virtual reality too. So much so I wrote a book about it (free on iBooks Store here and whilst a bit old now, it's still quite helpful, I feel). Things have moved on a gear since that book and I'm seriously…