Popular App and recent winner in an Apple Distinguished Educator poll, Explain Everything has added to its available platforms a Chrome app which works well in the Chrome environment. As you’ll see from the screenshot below it won’t work on other devices running Chrome, only on the Chromebook. I’ve used…
I was asked by Shaun Allison a while ago if I would be able to join him at the Teachmeet at his school. It’s not exactly round the corner at 183 miles away. My friend and ex-colleague David Didau who lives not too far from me managed to get across…
The amount of planning that goes in to an event such as the phenomenal Northern Rocks that took place yesterday in Leeds is huge. Having organised a few myself I know what it takes, a dedicated and hard-working team of people. The fact that Debra contacted me back in September 2014…
A group of teachers from the UK are embarking on a trip this summer to try and link two cultures together around the topic of education. It is the brain-child of UK teacher, Rory Gallagher. The project Back in 1997 Rory Gallagher (@EddieKayshun on Twitter) went to Japan on the…
I worry for a number of reasons. Why I worry Teachers blog and don’t think about their audience and say things that show poor judgement. Teachers blog and use images that aren’t licensed for reuse and think it’s ok because they’ve used ‘Google Images’. Teachers blog and use images which aren’t…
I had to tell my son off this morning. He’d been a bit naughty. He’d been put on the naughty step and sat there in his Spiderman costume, crying his eyes out. He’d been a bit naughty sure, but certainly not enough to warrant the floods of tears that streamed down…
Friday 17 April 2015 saw the UK Blog Awards take place in Marble Arch, London. It was a plush affair from all accounts. I wasn’t able to make it as I was working in Istanbul at the #EdtechIST conference. The process to making it through to the finals was quite…
My presentation for #TMStockport was quite a difficult choice. Knowing who else was speaking and the topic of use of technology, I wanted to do something on purposeful use – yes… I know… but I had an inkling that their host @ICT_MrP would probably cover that, so I went for…
As you may have seen in my recent post I am moving out of the classroom to be able to work and support schools in a number of different ways. To help with this move I’ve just built a new website to showcase the sort of support that I am offering…
I was at Bristol Brunel Academy’s ‘Never Stop Learning’ event on Thursday evening this week and was delighted to have been asked by its organiser, Stephen O’Callaghan (check his blog here too) to wrap up the evening with a plenary. I did so with the following presentation and video. The event was…
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