I've been a big fan of Greg Kulowiec's idea of App Smashing for some time. This is why when I was asked to run some sessions at a conference in Istanbul recently I chose to run a 3 hour session on App Smashing. To support the session I created an iTunes U…
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I was reminded last week on the power of Twitter which brought together 250 education professionals to London for #TMLondon. Selfies, trending, hashtag, learning and sharing all took place and not only were there 250 teachers there, there were more than 200 viewing online at the same time too. It…
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I was contacted by MyiStick following my presentation at Liz Allton's TeachMeet Solihull and a recommendation from Liz. Further to a conversation, they said they'd be happy to send me one of their iSticks. Now, if you haven't heard of them, an iStick is a two way lightning to USB memory…
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Decide Now is a popular random picker that can be used for lots of reasons in the classroom and is pretty popular. Many people often ask me how to add in your own choices, so I made a short screencast to show how it's done. I've seen it…
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Who would have thought it? Google now have an impressive number of apps available on the iOS App Store which can help, support and enhance learning. Of the 32 available that are optimised for iPad, I can easily see there being use for most of them in a learning space,…
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I'm liking the updated sections in the App Store that have been broken down by different learning stage. Have you seen them? They're broken down by key stage and then within each of those sections they're broken down further by learning activity. What is also nice is to see the…
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iBooks 2 which was launched back in January 2012 was a massive step forward in the world of reading and learning. We were all wowed by the presentation shown at the Guggenheim Museum with the ‘Life On Earth’ example. It had impressive 3D interactive images. It had an in-depth glossary.…
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Apple have just blown my mind... Having watched the keynote and seen their various new lines with MacBook Pro's and new iPad Air and iPad mini with retina display, so forth and so on, I was pretty happy. Some great kit being offered there. It wasn't until I was able…
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I've always been a big fan of the Nintendo DS App "Dr Kawashima's Brain Training". In particular, the Math element of the game I found to be really good at getting my brain more responsive in terms of my general abilities related to mental arithmetic - being able to quickly…
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Taking the strain out of social media is something that is a bit of a utopian scenario for me. I make quite a lot of use of various social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Google Drive etc. Keeping on top of all of these can often take…
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