Inclusion can take place in lots of ways in a school setting. Technology can really help with this and in this post, I'll share three ways to help ensure children don't feel excluded in your classroom. Wheel of Names! Sometimes inclusion is just that - ensuring everyone not only feels…
Read More
Welcome to Day Twenty of the AppVent Calendar. I can't believe it's nearly Christmas - it's been a long month but the days have been flying by! Today's entry on the calendar has been chosen by Em Bell, from Grimsby Institute. I first met Em at #TMHullEY at Malet Lambert…
Read More
Morning and welcome to day seventeen on my edtech AppVent Calendar! I can't believe how quickly the days are rolling by through December in the build-up to Christmas! Today's recommended app comes from somebody that I have known for many years now. When I was first developing my PLN and…
Read More
Morning and welcome to day sixteen of the edtech AppVent Calendar. Thank you so much to Philippa Wraithmell for her recommended app of AR Makr in yesterday's entry. Stay tuned for an entry tomorrow from Kristian Still! In the meantime though, today's entry is something I've been sharing for a…
Read More
Hello and welcome to Day Thirteen on the Appvent Christmas Calendar! It's even Friday the thirteenth! I have no bad luck to bring you today though as today's app of the day is Quizizz! When I was planning out the different apps to share across the calendar, it was always…
Read More
Welcome to day twelve of the Appvent calendar. I have honestly been loving sharing all of these fantastic tools these last twelve days. It's been a great opportunity to catch up with some really valued members of my PLN too. Today's guest teacher to share an app on the calendar…
Read More
Now I know there are more than five and I rate lots of different tools that I haven't mentioned here such as ClassKick, Quizalize, GoFormative, Google Forms, Mentimeter, Poll Everywhere... there are so many of them. Rather than focus on absolutely everything, I thought I would share 5 great tools…
Read More
So first things first. Whilst I realise the actual embarrassment that I have never actually written a specific blog post about Kahoot I've included it many times. It is fair to say that over the years I've shared it with tens of thousands of educators as a great tool for…
Read More
As posted the other day when I shared my 'Making IT work with iPad' post, I am currently working through sharing my different presentations from #BETT2017. This post will contain my presentation that looked at different tools you can use on your iPad to support AFL in the classroom. One…
Read More
What's the story? A staple of many an iPad classroom is the popular free App, Nearpod. Whilst I firmly believe it is not the be all and end all, this app is one which is great to help bridge the confidence gap for teachers between newbie iPad user to über…
Read More