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…
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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…
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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…
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Welcome to Day Seventeen of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! Today's entry, nominated again by Laura George, is a tool that has been a firm favourite of mine since its early days. Since then it has come on in leaps and bounds and has proven indispensable to many tens of thousands…
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Welcome to Day Sixteen of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! Today’s entry will certainly be a popular choice with many educators. This app has experienced an almost meteoric rise to fame since its acquisition by Microsoft back in 2016. The app we are talking about of course is Flipgrid! A quick…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Welcome to Day Twelve of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! As with the other entries on the calendar this year, today’s recommended tool is one which has been a staple of my teaching and learning toolkit for many years. As a tool which at its heart, supports flipped learning and is…
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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…
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