My presentation from the recent TeachMeet Woodham event. http://youtu.be/SL-pUo2XMqM
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Found this fab site for creating flyers recently (thanks @mattbritland) which is simply brilliant. www.smore.com Simply add in the building blocks you want, choose your theme / layout / background and away you go. I've found it particularly useful as it takes the technical side of learning software out of…
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Thanks to @andyhutt for the heads up on this one. Love this site for creating your own animated presentations. Here's one I made earlier (mind out if you have speakers on for the annoying jingle at the end though!). It's got a really simple to use interface with fab…
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Curation has always been an important weapon in the arsenal of a student but never before has it been easier to curate, gather, organise and collate information on topics. It is going to change the way in which we teach and the way in which students learn and can access…
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With the new school year around the corner - here are some of my best picks for students starting with their own iOS devices in September. CLASSES (£0.69) One of the first things you will do on your first day back at school is transfer your timetable to your…
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This past year preparing for the launch of iPads has been an interesting one for sure. I've been privileged to be able to work with amazing colleagues, students, parents and ADEs. It has provided yet again another brilliant learning curve for me. I’ll go ahead and say it - I…
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It's known in many circles that I'm leading on how the iPad can be used to inform and support teaching and learning at Clevedon School. Part of that role involves me looking at apps and determining their pedagogical value and how they might be used to support learning. With that…
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Following meeting the lovely Catherine Cains from Brislington Enterprise College, Bristol, I was asked to present at her TeachMeet following on from her BITES event at Brislington. I was unfortunately unable to make it, but recorded these 20 ideas in 5 minutes for her which you can now see on…
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Many is the time when I've been considering ways to flip my classrooms. MentorMob provides an excellent way of doing this. A web 2.0 tool to share ‘learning playlists’ - a bit like micro favourite lists as you might see on delicious, the site allows members of the community to…
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I've been wanting to write a follow up to my popular 1st little book for some time now, but I really wanted to make sure that all of the ideas that I put in to it were really tried and tested. That they really have got the pedagogical impact that teachers…
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