What would you do if you could teach a lesson in a Holodeck? It's not long now until the world's largest educational technology tradeshow, BETT arrives. Slowly but surely the tradeshow has improved its offer for those visiting. Accredited CPD, real-stories being shared, more and more, my vision of BETT…
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Hi and welcome! Behind today's door on the calendar, we have none other than Bukky Yusuf suggesting one of her most useful apps. Bukky is someone I have known personally for many years now and proud to be able to call a friend. In organising this post we discussed exactly…
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Hello and welcome to another post on the AppVent Calendar! Something I love about the work I do is seeing how my work inspires others to do the same and the AppVent calendar is no different! It's been fabulous this year to see other's start sharing their own edtech focussed…
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Hello and welcome to Day Thirteen on the Appvent Christmas Calendar! It's even Friday the thirteenth! I have no bad luck to bring you today though as today's app of the day is Quizizz! When I was planning out the different apps to share across the calendar, it was always…
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Welcome to day twelve of the Appvent calendar. I have honestly been loving sharing all of these fantastic tools these last twelve days. It's been a great opportunity to catch up with some really valued members of my PLN too. Today's guest teacher to share an app on the calendar…
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Hello and welcome to Day Eleven on the Appvent Christmas Calendar. Congratulations today go to NetSupport DNA for their superb tool for managing your school’s digital estate. I regularly write and share fantastic tools that teachers can use at the chalkface to impact and add value to their teaching and…
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As I've been sharing on Twitter for a few weeks now in the build-up to December, I've been curating a whole host of different apps and tools to share each day across the month. Every day up until Christmas, including Christmas day I’ll be sharing apps and tools that you can…
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It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of the Adobe Spark suite of tools I've written about them and shared ways in which they can be used to support teaching and learning many times. Apart from it being completely free for schools to have the full Spark suite, in…
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I've always loved Book Creator. For me, it embodies the very best of edtech in that it is versatile enough to be used with learners of all ages, has uses across all ages, is simple to use and can be used in lots of different ways to support teaching and…
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As we approach the end of the academic year, many heads of house/year, tutors and teachers will be looking to create a variety of resources, videos and activities to use in assemblies, tutor time and more. When it comes to sharing the life of the school, socially or in assemblies…
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