I've long shared the benefits of using QR Codes to support teaching and learning in the classroom. The benefits are many, wide and varied. Even this last week I saw a great post shared by Microsoft Innovative Educator Fellow, Stephen Taylor sharing about to easily make them on Twitter. As…
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Welcome to Day 20 of #Appvent22. Today's offering comes from Ronan McNicholl again and today he is sharing the newly acquired tool by Microsoft, Clipchamp. Clipchamp is a free video editing platform that was recently acquired by Microsoft. It provides a great set of free tools that teachers can use…
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Welcome to day 21 of the 2021 Appvent Calendar. It's been so much fun sharing all of these amazing tools each day across the month so far. With Google featuring twice already on the calendar, it's great to share again the awe and wonder of human history in the arts…
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Welcome to day 19 of the Appvent Calendar. Today we reveal a new version of an old friend in Adobe Creative Cloud Express. Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education If you're a regular reader of my blog you will know how much of a fan I am of the Adobe…
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Welcome to day seventeen of the 2021 Appvent Calendar. Today's app is one of my absolute faves in Keynote. Suggested by Global Edtech author, Karen Caswell, she shares lots of great hints and tips below: One of the most commonly used educational iPad apps is Keynote. As an Apple…
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Welcome to the 16th day of the 2021 Appvent Calendar. Today's post and suggestions are from Kat Cauchi; a former teacher, Global Edtech author, Product Manager at ReallySchool and many more things besides. While you're at it, also check out #ChristmasWithKat for some fun threads! A few months ago,…
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Apple Clips has been around for a few years now. It’s a clever app for iPad and iPhone for making short video clips that can be enhanced in any number of ways using emoji, text, symbols, green-screen effects, AR and more! It’s become a firm favourite in many Primary school…
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Hello and welcome to another post on the AppVent Calendar! Something I love about the work I do is seeing how my work inspires others to do the same and the AppVent calendar is no different! It's been fabulous this year to see other's start sharing their own edtech focussed…
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If you've met me in the last few years you'll know what a huge advocate I am for Adobe Spark in the classroom. To pick a favourite from their three offerings would be too difficult however there has been a recent update to Spark Page that I had to share.…
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I recently had a conversation with a teacher on Twitter who wanted to create a presentation slide with scrolling text: https://twitter.com/ICTEvangelist/status/1102582990096531458 As Jules didn't have access to Pages for iPad I thought i'd help by creating a video to show how to do it using just animation in Keynote on…
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