In historical and religious terms, pillars have often represented the bridge between heaven and earth. If you visit some of the great Cathedrals across Europe, many of their architects used huge pillars inside with religious the symbolism Columns or pillars are familiar features of Church architecture that serve the purpose…
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Welcome to the ninth day of the #AppventCalendar for 2021. Today our recommendation comes from Marie-Clare Kelly, a Global Edtech author, eLearning manager and an all-around edtech knowledge house. The tool she shares is the somewhat nifty Miro, an interactive whiteboarding tool with many strings to its bow. Learn more…
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Welcome to Day Six of the Appvent Calendar. Today as we open the door, Jamboard is revealed! If you haven’t heard of Jamboard then have I got a treat for you! Conceived originally to work on an interactive flat panel by Google, the Jamboard app, available in a browser,…
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Every educator needs a space to curate, develop and share their research, reading and resources. Enter Wakelet. Wakelet is one of those essential tools that every educator should have in their teaching and learning toolkit, and for lots of reasons too. It's why I included it in my Appvent Calendar…
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Welcome to this, the eighth day of the edtech Appvent calendar. Today, congratulations go to Flipgrid as we open door eight on our edtech Appvent calendar. If you haven't heard of or come across Flipgrid then where have you been?! One of my favourite reasons for using Flipgrid is how…
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A few months ago I wrote about Book Creator and how they have opened up collaboration on their online Chrome based platform for Book Creator. My immediate thoughts were (in this order): Awesome When will this come to iPad (the answer is 'soon') How can we as educators model some…
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As I zipped over to the #BettFutures stand trying to politely dodge the sales pitches and get there on time, I could see as I grew closer that a big crowd had formed there already. Over the years I've become progressively more confident to talking in front of others. Those of…
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About 6 years ago, a web 2.0 tool came along called 'Wallwisher' which everyone raved about and it really was the belle of the edtech ball. It was very popular indeed, but over time, it became more unpredictable and thus unreliable. As time rolled on so less and less teachers…
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So it happened 'like' this. I followed @elearninglaura I saw on her profile she had a blog (good it is too) I saw a post on her blog about a tool for making your own infographics (Piktochart) I thought cool - @fullonlearning (who also has a superb blog) will like that and so…
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I was really pleased to come across the SketchShare app the other week. I immediately saw some really great potential with it. Some of these key features made it a no brainer for me in an education space: 1) Supporting group work upto 4 people can collaborate anywhere in the…
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