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Jan 28 2022

The best hidden feature in iOS for you to check out!

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, top tips No Comments

Originally introduced in iOS 14, this feature is so useful yet despite being really helpful in lots of scenarios for iPhone users, I am still amazed at the number of people who haven't heard of it or stumbled upon it. In writing this article I read one author talk about…

Feb 05 2020

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Interactive Periodic Table of #ARVRinEDU Apps for #iPadOS

By Mark Anderson ADE, EdTech, Education, educators, Featured, Free resource, ICT, iPad, Resources No Comments

I love being a teacher and working in education. In my role now I am very fortunate to work with educators as I do now. Wherever I travel in the world, people comment on the different periodic tables that I've made over the years. Even just this last week in…

Dec 15 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Fifteen – @MrsWraithmell

By Mark Anderson ADE, Appvent, AR, EdTech, ICT, iPad No Comments

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…

Sep 12 2019

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Using Adobe Spark Post and Siri Shortcuts to make animated gifs

By Mark Anderson ADE, EdTech, Education, educators, iPad No Comments

I'm working at the University of Worcester tomorrow speaking to 150+ PGCE students about using Twitter for professional development, among other things. As part of that, here is a Twitter question I posed earlier. I've posed questions like this before and the response has always been phenomenal. Today has been…

Mar 18 2019

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The Updated for iOS 12 Periodic Table of iPad Apps 2019

By Mark Anderson ADE, Free resource, ICT, iPad, Resources No Comments

At BETT in January I launched two Periodic Tables, one for AR and VR which I collaborated on with Steve Bambury and this second table, focused upon apps for learning. It is not the same as the AR and VR table. Whilst both tables are broken down into categories, the…

Nov 26 2018

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Turn your keyboard into a trackpad in iOS

By Mark Anderson ICT, iPad, Resources, top tips No Comments

I regularly say that every day is a learning day and I learned something new and something that I had clearly missed, recently. I can't remember how I learned about the trackpad feature on your iOS keyboard but I was sure I had seen it in on some Apple web page…

Mar 22 2018

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NEW and UPDATED Periodic table of iPad apps for Primary aged pupils for iOS 11

By Mark Anderson ADE, AR, EdTech, ICT, iPad, iPad apps, Resources, Tools No Comments

I was working this week at the JESS school in Dubai with former periodic table collaborator and good friend, Steve Bambury. We used the previous version of this table and despite it only being a year old, so much has changed in that short space of time. Now that the…

Mar 02 2018

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New Microsoft App which calls out landmarks to help the visually impaired

By Mark Anderson ALN / SEN, EdTech, iPad, Microsoft, Positivity No Comments

There's no getting away from it, Microsoft's focus on driving new technologies forward to help those with accessibility needs have been pretty groundbreaking in recent times. The Immersive Reader that works within Office Lens is one such example. Simply take a photo of a document within Office Lens and have…

Feb 19 2018

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5 ways to use Plotaverse Photo Animator for iOS in the classroom

By Mark Anderson iPad, Video No Comments

Something I often struggle to do is to find meaningful videos to use as backgrounds. A while ago I found a great app which you can use to turn your previously taken photos into animated looped videos, simply by tweaking a few elements in your image. Here's an example of…

Feb 11 2018

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Figment AR for story telling and re-living field trips in iOS

By Mark Anderson ICT, iPad, Learning, Literacy, T & L No Comments

The recent periodic table of iOS apps for AR & VR I created alongside Steve Bambury has been very popular. One of the apps that feature on the table in the 'Story Telling' section is a free app called Figment AR which is free and suitable for ages from 4+ according…