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Dec 21 2021

As we open the #AppventCalendar today we are delighted to share Google Arts and Culture from @gustavocdeanda

By Mark Anderson Appvent, AR, EdTech No Comments

Welcome to day 21 of the 2021 Appvent Calendar. It's been so much fun sharing all of these amazing tools each day across the month so far. With Google featuring twice already on the calendar, it's great to share again the awe and wonder of human history in the arts…

Dec 06 2021

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Welcome to day six of the #AppventCalender – today I’m delighted to reveal the superb Jamboard!

By Mark Anderson Appvent No Comments

Welcome to Day Six of the Appvent Calendar. Today as we open the door, Jamboard is revealed! If you haven’t heard of Jamboard then have I got a treat for you! Conceived originally to work on an interactive flat panel by Google, the Jamboard app, available in a browser,…

Dec 24 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Twenty-Four – Google Slides!

By Mark Anderson Appvent, EdTech, Google, Tools No Comments

Merry Christmas everyone. Thank you for joining me on this journey throughout December this year. It's been a fantastic experience, sharing tools that work and opportunities on how to best use them. It's been lovely too, to have the opportunity to invite a variety of guests to join me on…

Dec 23 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Twenty-Three – @rondelle10_b

By Mark Anderson Appvent, EdTech, Tools, top tips No Comments

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…

Mar 31 2018

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April Fools and Easter Eggs #edtech style

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Google No Comments

So this year, Easter falls on the 1 April. This doesn't happen very often, but some things that do happen each year with annual regularity are the Easter Eggs and April fools tricks that lots of different #edtech companies put out there. One of my favourite April fools gags has…

Sep 29 2017

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Can you help to create tomorrow’s innovators? #LON17

By Mark Anderson Google No Comments

As part of the work that I do I get some great opportunities to do some fantastic things. Something I've been involved with over recent months has been in the role of a Google Innovative Mentor and so can I please introduce Sam Gibson from New Zealand who I've been…

Jan 15 2017

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I got it off Google Images…

By Mark Anderson CPD, educators, ICT, Social Media

I often ask teachers if they use Google Images for the pictures they use in the resources they make for the classroom. The majority of teachers tell me they use Google Images for all their images. They simply go to the site, search for their image, grab the best one and…

Nov 27 2016

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Break down your classroom walls with this groundbreaking app

By Mark Anderson EdTech, iPad apps

When I first heard about Google Expeditions I was super excited. I love using 360's in the classroom. One minute you can be on a visit to the Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi and the next minute you can be on the Great Barrier Reef swimming amongst the corals.…

Mar 14 2016

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Chrome Music Lab for Science, Music and more

By Mark Anderson Chrome One Comment

Want to experiment with music? Teach the Physics of sound? Take a look at Chrome Music Lab. Freely available via https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/ there are a number of tools there to help teach everything from rhythm to oscillation to soundwaves to spectograms and much more besides. As you can see from the above screenshot,…