It’s that time of the year to be reflective and to think ahead and make plans. Reflecting back on 2020, one of the few silver linings, as noted by many, was the huge inroads into the progress made by the teaching profession in improving both their confidence and competence in…
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Welcome to Day Thirteen of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! As has been a consistent theme on the calendar with tools that have been super helpful during the last twelve months, today's offering behind door number thirteen is the popular, open-source software package that has been used to host quizzes, assemblies…
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Welcome to Day Twelve of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! As with the other entries on the calendar this year, today’s recommended tool is one which has been a staple of my teaching and learning toolkit for many years. As a tool which at its heart, supports flipped learning and is…
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There’s no getting away from what a difficult year it has been for everyone the world over. With Collins Dictionary making their word of the year ‘lockdown’ it is a clear sign of the times. Whilst other words such as ‘’Rona’ or ‘unprecedented’ or ‘the Vid’ might have also been…
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Welcome to Day 9 of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! A consistent feature throughout the AppventCalendar event so far has been those tools and apps which have really helped to make a difference to communication, collaboration and teaching and learning throughout the pandemic. In the early years and primary setting one…
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Welcome to Day 8 of the 2020 Appvent Calendar. As with many of the entries on the calendar this year and a hallmark of many a good edtech company or app, today’s entry has really come into its own in supporting both a reduction in teacher workload, evidence-informed uses of…
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Welcome to Day Six of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! As you may have noticed on the Appvent Calendar this year, many of the tools we have selected have really come into their own during COVID-19. Continuity of learning and teaching has been a central part to the concerns of students,…
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Welcome to Day Four of the Appvent Calendar 2020! It’s been fantastic to open our apps so far, and today I am bringing you Adobe Spark Page as my offering for the festive season. As an English teacher, I believe that authentic audience has a huge impact on pupil work.…
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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…
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Welcome to Day Two of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! We are so pleased and proud to be bringing you another calendar of amazing tools, apps and services that can help support teaching, learning, productivity and being safe online. With a great start to the event with our first app yesterday,…
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