Inspiring reading and writing in young people can sometimes be a challenge, but utilising popular media and technology often has a big impact on pupil engagement in this area. The rather fab text-based adventure game Lifeline was just named Apple’s App of the Week. To tie in with this, it is…
This year’s institute will stay with me for some time. I will blog more about it but for now I will keep my mouth and keyboard shut as I don’t want to provide any spoilers for those about to attend the third regional institute in Singapore. Those of you who…
As someone who is pretty passionate about (purposeful) edtech and its potential to enhance learning, Google are one of only a few organisations that sit right at the heart of that passion. One of the things on my professional bucket list was to become a Google Certified Teacher. Alongside that, I’ve…
Vidra is a great free new app from the creators of the also brilliant Grafio – TenTouch Apps. I was using Grafio on my iPad today and saw that they were promoting this new app – the end result looked pretty good and not too dissimilar to Adobe Voice (which I…
A number of people have asked me how to use the Grafio App, so I made a screencast. I hope you find it useful! Cheers!
It’s not often that I write a specific post on a specific app but I am today. I’ve been using the app ‘Grafio’ for some time now. I found it because I was looking for an app that I could use to create my own infographics (a diagram that plots…
Here are some more ways of using Google Advanced Search for smarter searching. Advanced Search Advanced search is helpful if you have a number of parameters you want to limit your search by, and can’t find Mark’s handy searching post. Advanced search becomes available once you’ve typed in your search term. You…
Avid Studio (which cost £4.99) has been one of my secret weapon apps for some time as an alternative to the also fab iMovie. Imagine my surprise when I saw this notification in my updates in the app store. Avid Studio is now Pinnacle Studio and whilst essentially the same…
So this coming Thursday, TeachMeet Clevedon is taking place (if you hadn’t noticed! One application I’ve been looking to examine for some time is ‘CoverItLive’ – I’ve heard great things about it from the likes of @CheriseDuxbury and @JamiePortman on his great post on the app/topic here with some fab ideas. I…
Popplet is a great tool which you can use for free online for a number of different reasons: A revision tool A presentation tool A mindmapping tool An idea collation tool A collaborative tool (you can connect with other Popplet users to collate ideas / work collaboratively) There are lots…
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