Welcome to Day 8 of the 2020 Appvent Calendar. As with many of the entries on the calendar this year and a hallmark of many a good edtech company or app, today’s entry has really come into its own in supporting both a reduction in teacher workload, evidence-informed uses of…
A quick search of my site will bring up a whole bunch of articles linked to the brilliant work that can be done with Book Creator. A long-time supporter of Book Creator, it has ranked highly on my list of essential tools for learning in the classroom. It has been…
I love Google Chrome. The extensions you can add to your Chrome browser are fab. Sure there are things you can do with Safari, Edge, Firefox… but nothing comes close really to the powerful Chrome browser. One of my new (to me) favourite extensions for Chrome has to be the…
Want to experiment with music? Teach the Physics of sound? Take a look at Chrome Music Lab. Freely available via https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/ there are a number of tools there to help teach everything from rhythm to oscillation to soundwaves to spectograms and much more besides. As you can see from the above screenshot,…
A while ago I created an infographic featuring 30 apps for the paperless iPad classroom. Today I’ve created a similar type of infographic but with essential Chromebook tools and apps for the classroom. It features 18 different tools that I have used with children in my classrooms over the years…
Popular App and recent winner in an Apple Distinguished Educator poll, Explain Everything has added to its available platforms a Chrome app which works well in the Chrome environment. As you’ll see from the screenshot below it won’t work on other devices running Chrome, only on the Chromebook. I’ve used…
I was delighted to be asked to deliver the opening keynote and to run some workshops too at the Streetly Academy Chromebook Conference. The focus for my keynote, (apart from including my favourite Chrome extensions and the wins you can get from the main Google Apps) was about the power of…
Who would have thought it? Google now have an impressive number of apps available on the iOS App Store which can help, support and enhance learning. Of the 32 available that are optimised for iPad, I can easily see there being use for most of them in a learning space,…
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…
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