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Oct 25 2021

Five ways Siri can help you be more efficient and productive

By Mark Anderson ADE, iPad No Comments

Many of us will know how annoying our virtual assistants can be, listening in to everything we do ready and raring to "help us" perform a variety of tasks, but how often do you use yours other than to perhaps call someone? In this short post, I'll share a few…

Dec 22 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day Twenty Two – Clips from @AppleEDU shared by @KristinCHarr

By Mark Anderson Appvent No Comments

Welcome to Day Twenty Two of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! Today's entry on the calendar has been made by Kristin Harrington. Kristin is a Global Edtech author, Ed Tech Coach, Media Specialist, Author, Adjunct Professor, Edcamp Organizer, #FLedChat Co-Moderator and ISTE PLN Leader. You can find Kristin on Twitter here.…

Dec 15 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day Fifteen – Numbers from @AppleEDU shared by @Mrs_Educate

By Mark Anderson ADE, Appvent, EdTech, iPad, iPad apps, Tools No Comments

Welcome to Day 15 of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! Often it is the tools that come as standard with your operating system or productivity suite that can help make the most difference to your everyday work for teaching and learning. Today's recommendations by ADE, @Mrs_Educate is exactly one of these…

Mar 18 2019

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The Updated for iOS 12 Periodic Table of iPad Apps 2019

By Mark Anderson ADE, Free resource, ICT, iPad, Resources No Comments

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…

Apr 27 2018

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Ten things every educator should be able to do with their iPad

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

When I reflect back to early versions of iOS and the workarounds that teachers and students used to have to jump through hoops to complete through third-party applications, the iOS operating system has come a very long way from where it used to be. No longer do you have to…

Mar 22 2018

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NEW and UPDATED Periodic table of iPad apps for Primary aged pupils for iOS 11

By Mark Anderson ADE, AR, EdTech, ICT, iPad, iPad apps, Resources, Tools No Comments

I was working this week at the JESS school in Dubai with former periodic table collaborator and good friend, Steve Bambury. We used the previous version of this table and despite it only being a year old, so much has changed in that short space of time. Now that the…

Dec 13 2017

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10 iPad apps for Humanities classrooms

By Mark Anderson iPad No Comments

Whilst there are some awesome apps and websites to support generic teaching and learning activities across the curriculum and age bands, there are also lots of brilliant subject-specific apps for you to use in the classroom too. Remember that whilst some of these tools really do have 'cool factor' running…

Feb 05 2017

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My tips on applying to become an Apple Distinguished Educator

By Mark Anderson ADE, EdTech, iPad No Comments

One of the best forms of CPD I've ever received have come directly as a result of becoming an Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE). If you're using Apple technologies in your everyday teaching practice and doing some amazing things as a result, then this is one professional learning network that you…

Mar 12 2016

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Watch #AppShareLive live NOW

By Mark Anderson ICT One Comment

This post contains an embedded live stream below of the #AppShareLive event happening right now on Google Hangouts. #AppShareLive is a live event with teachers from around the world sharing different iOS / iPad apps they use in the classroom which have an impact on learning. Hosted by me, Mark Anderson…

Dec 13 2015

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AppShareLive – a new initiative

By Mark Anderson CPD No Comments

AppShareLive is a new initiative where I hope to get a bunch of educators together each month to share some technology that is working for them in their classroom. I was really pleased with the first edition of #appsharelive yesterday, you can view it again below via YouTube. This is…