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Apr 04 2015

My #EdtechIST expert and inspiration sessions

By Mark Anderson Conferences One Comment

I'm very excited to be speaking at #EdtechIST running some expert and inspiration sessions. The event running over the weekend of 18-19 April features a large number of different international expert speakers talking and sharing about the great use of education technology in education. My expert session will focus on…

Mar 09 2015

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My iStick, a review

By Mark Anderson iPad 3 Comments

I was contacted by MyiStick following my presentation at Liz Allton's TeachMeet Solihull and a recommendation from Liz. Further to a conversation, they said they'd be happy to send me one of their iSticks. Now, if you haven't heard of them, an iStick is a two way lightning to USB memory…

Mar 03 2015

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How to use Decide Now App for iOS #appaday

By Mark Anderson iPad One Comment

Decide Now is a popular random picker that can be used for lots of reasons in the classroom and is pretty popular. Many people often ask me how to add in your own choices, so I made a short screencast to show how it's done. I've seen it…

Mar 02 2015

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The Power of the Visual for learning

By Mark Anderson EdTech 11 Comments

Visuals are so powerful. Carl Hendrick wrote recently about motivational posters recently here and I tend to agree when they're used out of context, however I think visualisations can be a great learning tool, particularly when students make them themselves. We can embed learning linked to numeracy in lots of…

Feb 01 2015

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Thinglink in the classroom

By Mark Anderson EdTech 5 Comments

A tool I've used many times in the classroom is Thinglink. I often forget how brilliant it is for lots of different purposes: shared curation of resources and research a place to put contextual links to different elements of a project a way to share learning a way to explain…

Jan 25 2015

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#Bett2015 Part One – Learning with technology in 2015

By Mark Anderson Bett 3 Comments

Bett this year has been a lovely, affirming, sharing and fabulous opportunity to connect and re-connect with some of the most innovative and passionate educators in the world. I was humbled to be asked by a number of people to speak and share my thoughts across my visit on Friday.…

Jan 18 2015

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Remixing great lessons: Rigour

By Mark Anderson T & L 9 Comments

Great lessons have key characteristics. Many edu-bloggers have discussed the characteristics of great lessons but for me, the one person that nails it is as discussed in my introductory post to this series is Tom Sherrington. In his series he discusses the topic in some detail across ten posts. In my series I will…

Jan 17 2015

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Videos for inspiration and assemblies

By Mark Anderson Positivity 2 Comments

There are lots of things that can inspire creativity in the classroom. We know why we want our students to be creative and to think creatively - it's so that they can express themselves in ways that enable them to embed their learning in the classroom. One of the ways…

Jan 11 2015

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Vidra for iPad – free video creation tool

By Mark Anderson iPad 10 Comments

Vidra is a great free new app from the creators of the also brilliant Grafio - TenTouch Apps. I was using Grafio on my iPad today and saw that they were promoting this new app - the end result looked pretty good and not too dissimilar to Adobe Voice (which I…

Jan 07 2015

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Remixing great lessons: Probing

By Mark Anderson T & L 4 Comments

Great lessons have key characteristics. Many edu-bloggers have discussed this but for me, the one person that nails it is as discussed in my introductory post to this series is Tom Sherrington. In his series he discusses the topic in some detail across ten posts. In my series I will be looking at…