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Dec 02 2022

Day Two of #Appvent22 welcomes a fantastic app to promote whole school wellbeing

By Mark Anderson Appvent, EdTech, Leadership No Comments

Welcome to Day Two of #Appvent22. We are delighted to share another calendar of superb apps, tools, and services. With a great start to the event yesterday, we proceed today with an award-winning platform that is having a huge impact on staff wellbeing. Staff wellbeing has rightly become a hot…

Dec 24 2020

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Welcome, as we open the final day on the 2020 #AppventCalendar and we find @BookCreatorApp!

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Books, Chrome, Computing, EdTech, iPad No Comments

Welcome to day 24, the final day of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! What a fantastic selection of great apps we’ve had across the 24 days this year. Alongside my entries and guest entries, this year I’ve extended the initiative across not just ictevangelist.com but across to the global-edtech.com team…

Dec 23 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day 23 – @Trello, written and shared by @rondelle10_b

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Leadership No Comments

Welcome to Day Twenty Three on the 2020 Appvent Calendar! Day 23 – #Appvent Calendar – Trello If like me, you like to plan things out in a visual way, then Trello is one tool to explore. This blog provides a basic outline to help you get started. What is…

Dec 20 2020

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#Appvent Calendar Day Twenty – @StreamYardApp shared by @OLewis_coaching!

By Mark Anderson #LearnLiveUAE, Appvent, Home Learning, LearnLiveUAE, UAE No Comments

Welcome to Day Twenty of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! It’s been no secret that in the current pandemic, technology has not only risen to the occasion by facilitating the adjustment of our normal ways of working. It’s also nudged us into enhanced practices while serving its real purpose of being…

Dec 19 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day 19 – Halo AR from @lightup

By Mark Anderson Appvent, AR, EdTech No Comments

Welcome to Day 19 of the 2020 Appvent Calendar Throughout the Appvent calendar this year we have seen lots of tried and tested, good old favourites appearing, which has been lovely because so many of these tools have made such a big impact during the pandemic. It would be remiss…

Dec 18 2020

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#Appvent Calendar Day Eighteen – Swift Playgrounds from @lcoffeeprincel

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Computing, iPad No Comments

Welcome to Day Eighteen of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! Swift Playgrounds is one of the best applications for teaching coding. This month the global community once again celebrated the importance of learning how to code. My school in Japan participated in the Hour of Code event and I used Swift…

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…

Dec 14 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day Fourteen – Google Arts and Culture by @EdTechEvans

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Chrome, EdTech, Google, iPad No Comments

Welcome to Day Fourteen of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! Today's entry on the calendar, nominated and written about below by Tim Evans, Edtech Coordinator at the Stamford American School in Hong Kong, is a firm favourite for me. I won't steal any of Tim's thunder, but it gets a huge…

Dec 13 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day Thirteen – OBS Studio by @RonanMcNicholl @global_edtech

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Computing, Distance Learning, EdTech, Online Learning, Remote Learning No Comments

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…

Dec 11 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day Eleven – Google Earth: Voyager

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Distance Learning, EdTech, Google No Comments

Welcome to Day Eleven of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! I’ve been a huge fan of Google Earth for a very long time. There are so many features and tools bundled with this app which can be easily missed. I believe Voyager is one such feature. Released as part of an…