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Nov 29 2019

I didn’t know you could do that! Five #edtech ideas in five minutes

By Mark Anderson Conferences, CPD, EdTech, Food for thought, Resources No Comments

I'm very pleased to be working closely with NetSupport again at BETT and you will be able to find me on their stand every day throughout the trade fair. There will be a plethora of amazing presenters on the stand again delivering non-sponsored content, sharing their stories from their classrooms…

Nov 15 2019

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Ethics in #edtech, brand ambassadors and obligations

By Mark Anderson ADE, EdTech, educators, Ethics No Comments

I was involved in a conversation last night on the Book Creator Ambassador community site about ethics and edtech. I promised I'd write about my views and so here is the post... Back in 2017, the New York Times ran an article highlighting the potential ethical issues around brand ambassadorships.…

Jun 16 2019

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Tools to help create dual coding influenced resources

By Mark Anderson ADE, Computing, Free resource, Google No Comments

As many will know, Dual Coding is definitely in vogue right now. I'm not going to sit here and echo chamber the great work being done by many - you can find out lots more about dual coding on the learningscientists.org site, for example. What I am going to do…

May 13 2019

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Why am I on tour (and a free conference for you!)

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Education, educators, Food for thought No Comments

ICT Evangelist on Tour! This week sees me on the road visiting schools that are customers of Frog Education. With schools scrutinising every penny spent; teachers under increasing pressure to deal with issues in their school often with less resources and newly formed MATs and their schools dealing with bigger…

Mar 18 2019

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How to ensure value for money when purchasing #edtech

By Mark Anderson EdTech, ICT, Infographics, Leadership, Microsoft No Comments

Originally posted as part of my Summer takeover on the Microsoft Education blog, this post explores the different ways you can ensure value for money when purchasing technology for your school. One of the most difficult things a school has to focus on is achieving value for money for its…

Mar 08 2019

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Ways to make your classroom more accessible and inclusive with #MicrosoftEDU

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, EdTech, educators, Inclusion, Microsoft No Comments

Originally posted as part of my Summer takeover on the Microsoft Education blog, this post explores the ways in which you can use Microsoft tools to make your classroom more accessible and inclusive... One of the most beautiful parts of the role of the teacher is that ability you have…

Feb 07 2019

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A great free VR app for iOS that can help with oracy, presentations and more

By Mark Anderson EdTech, ICT, iPad, VR No Comments

One of the reasons I started organising Teachmeets many moons ago was because I wanted to give myself the opportunity to present in front of my peers without my knees knocking, sweating and feeling full of imposter syndrome - if I'm honest, it still happens now but through practice comes…

Nov 14 2018

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Catch up with day two of the #Edtech50 schools tour

By Mark Anderson EdTech, edtech50, Education, educators, ICT, Leadership, Learning No Comments

So we've been on tour now for three days. Day two was the Welsh leg and we had some fantastic visits to schools. The first of which was to Bro Edern near Cardiff. An iPad 1:1 school, we met with Ceri Anwen James who gave us a tour of the school…

Nov 13 2018

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Catch up with day one of the #Edtech50 schools tour

By Mark Anderson Uncategorized No Comments

So we've been on tour now for two days so playing catch up a little bit. We had a fantastic first day on the tour yesterday. I'm currently writing this in the camper van in Fishguard having just visited the lovely Holy Name School in Fishguard. We are shortly off…

Nov 07 2018

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OMG it’s the #Edtech50 Schools Tour!

By Mark Anderson Uncategorized No Comments

I am very proud to be British and next week I am fortunate enough to be undertaking a huge tour of the UK with Ty Goddard of the Education Foundation and EdtechUK. We will be visiting schools across the country shining a light on some of the amazing work being…