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Dec 13 2017

10 iPad apps for Humanities classrooms

By Mark Anderson iPad No Comments

Whilst there are some awesome apps and websites to support generic teaching and learning activities across the curriculum and age bands, there are also lots of brilliant subject-specific apps for you to use in the classroom too. Remember that whilst some of these tools really do have 'cool factor' running…

Nov 22 2017

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Oracy in the curriculum and how technology can help

By Mark Anderson AFL, Computing, EdTech, Literacy, Quotes No Comments

There's no getting away from it, oracy is an essential skill. It is something that can be taught and there's a pretty firm evidence base for it given the research quoted in this paper. Add to this the impassioned article here explaining: "What is oracy and why should every child…

Oct 05 2017

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Save time curating web resources for OneNote Class Notebook #MicrosoftEDU

By Mark Anderson Chrome, Google, Microsoft No Comments

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…

Sep 06 2017

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So you’ve been given a new iPad infographic

By Mark Anderson Education, ICT, iPad, iPad apps, NQT No Comments

There is every chance that in your inset this year you'll have spent some time looking at how you can develop your practice with technology. You might have even been given a new shiny (or more usually not) iPad to use in your work. If you're new to iPad (or…

Sep 03 2017

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Three things to try this year in Office 365 infographic

By Mark Anderson CPD, EdTech, Education, educators, Infographics, Learning, Microsoft No Comments

As we start at the beginning of the new school year we are likely to be thinking about the ways in which we can improve ourselves and make learning better in the classroom. We're probably hoping that things might get a little easier too. Certainly the pressures on teachers aren't…

Aug 31 2017

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Making waves with Apple technologies in Hackney

By Mark Anderson EdTech, educators, iPad, Leadership, Learning, Pedagogy first, Work with me No Comments

It has been my distinct privilege to work over the course of the past year with the New Wave Federation in London. Already an established centre of excellence around teaching, learning and standards under the leadership of their Executive Headteacher, Michelle Thomas. I have been working with them on a…

Aug 23 2017

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Ways that technology can help with wellbeing

By Mark Anderson educators, personal, Positivity, Tips No Comments

There are lots of reasons why it makes sense to use technology to help us with our personal and our professional lives. The signs of poor mental wellbeing are things such as anxiety and depression. The causes of anxiety and depression for teachers are often things such as workload, too…

Aug 19 2017

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Top five low-stakes quizzing tools for teachers

By Mark Anderson AFL No Comments

Now I know there are more than five and I rate lots of different tools that I haven't mentioned here such as ClassKick, Quizalize, GoFormative, Google Forms, Mentimeter, Poll Everywhere... there are so many of them. Rather than focus on absolutely everything, I thought I would share 5 great tools…

Jul 11 2017

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Icons galore with this brilliant new add-in from the Noun Project

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Microsoft, Resources, Tools No Comments

There's one sure fire way of helping to bring your designs and documents to life and that is through the use of simple iconography. I wrote about the brilliant flaticon site in my secret edtech weapons post here. Always keeping something back for myself, I didn't share the Noun Project's…

Jun 06 2017

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Check out Unio – a great tool to support and enhance teaching and learning

By Mark Anderson EdTech No Comments

Unio by Harness® is a web based system which facilitates lots of different learning activities in your classroom. I love the fact that because it’s web based it is device agnostic too. You can share interactive online whiteboards and as teacher you can see all pupil’s screens in real-time and…