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Dec 09 2020

#AppventCalendar Day Nine – @ReallySchoolUK

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Curriculum, Home Learning, Learning, Online Learning, Remote Learning, Resources No Comments

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…

Dec 06 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day Six – @TuteEducation

By Mark Anderson Appvent, EdTech, Education, Inclusion, Online Learning, Remote Learning, Resources No Comments

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,…

Nov 12 2020

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Catch-up funding and how to make the most of it

By Mark Anderson Distance Learning, Food for thought, ICT, Leadership, Online Learning, Remote Learning, Resources No Comments

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 8 months, COVID has had a huge impact on education and the progress and lives of all of our learners in our schools. It has proven to be difficult for school leaders to stay ahead of the curve in terms…

Jun 23 2020

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The Global Edtech Academy – Free CPD for you for the next 3 months!

By Mark Anderson Conferences, Distance Learning, EdTech, educators, Featured, Free resource, Home Learning, Learning, Microsoft, Resources, Staffrm, Work with me No Comments

I'll always remember my birthday this year. Things were starting to get closed down everywhere and on that day, the lockdown here in the UK was announced. Since that day, every day I've seen educators working as superheroes, doing their best to help, be supportive, creative, engaging in our own…

Jun 13 2020

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Different ways (and how) to use Twitter’s new scheduling tool

By Mark Anderson CPD, EdTech, Resources, Tutorial, Work with me No Comments

Lots of schools use Twitter to share what they are doing, from sharing the fabric of school life and the day to day activities to professional learning opportunities from the school, its teachers sharing the great work of their learners - there are so many ways that schools use the…

Feb 27 2020

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LbQ – a game changer for teachers and learners!

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Education, Learning, Product Review, Resources No Comments

If you haven’t heard of Learning by Questions (LbQ) then where have you been? I first heard about LbQ more than a year ago when visiting a school in Northern Ireland. The teacher I was talking to was so enthusiastic about it and its impact on his learners, I had…

Feb 05 2020

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Interactive Periodic Table of #ARVRinEDU Apps for #iPadOS

By Mark Anderson ADE, EdTech, Education, educators, Featured, Free resource, ICT, iPad, Resources No Comments

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…

Dec 19 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Nineteen – @Unsplash!

By Mark Anderson Appvent, EdTech, educators, esafety, Free resource, Infographics, Resources No Comments

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,…

Nov 29 2019

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I didn’t know you could do that! Five #edtech ideas in five minutes

By Mark Anderson Conferences, CPD, EdTech, Food for thought, Resources No Comments

I'm very pleased to be working closely with NetSupport again at BETT and you will be able to find me on their stand every day throughout the trade fair. There will be a plethora of amazing presenters on the stand again delivering non-sponsored content, sharing their stories from their classrooms…

Jul 11 2019

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How to get your colours right when creating dual coding influenced resources

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, Cognitive Science, Learning, Resources, Tools No Comments

Making our resources clear and well presented is a key thing to help us when it comes to reducing cognitive load and supporting the ideas around dual coding when creating resources. In this post, I'm going to be sharing some of the tools I use to make some of the…