Originally shared on LinkedIn, this post focuses on ways that we can use technology, particularly iPad, although the resources can be pivoted for classrooms with all types of hardware, from Chromebooks to laptops, to MacBooks, focuses on the idea that "What’s essential for some, can be useful for all." When…
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Welcome to day seventeen of the 2021 Appvent Calendar. Today's app is one of my absolute faves in Keynote. Suggested by Global Edtech author, Karen Caswell, she shares lots of great hints and tips below: One of the most commonly used educational iPad apps is Keynote. As an Apple…
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Many of us will know how annoying our virtual assistants can be, listening in to everything we do ready and raring to "help us" perform a variety of tasks, but how often do you use yours other than to perhaps call someone? In this short post, I'll share a few…
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Welcome to Day 19 of the 2020 Appvent Calendar Throughout the Appvent calendar this year we have seen lots of tried and tested, good old favourites appearing, which has been lovely because so many of these tools have made such a big impact during the pandemic. It would be remiss…
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Welcome to Day Seventeen of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! Today's entry, nominated again by Laura George, is a tool that has been a firm favourite of mine since its early days. Since then it has come on in leaps and bounds and has proven indispensable to many tens of thousands…
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Welcome to Day 15 of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! Often it is the tools that come as standard with your operating system or productivity suite that can help make the most difference to your everyday work for teaching and learning. Today's recommendations by ADE, @Mrs_Educate is exactly one of these…
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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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A while ago I wrote a post which signalled a solid baseline level of ten things every teacher should be able to do with their iPad. It has been very popular and a recent resurgence in its popularity at the beginning of the academic year shows it is still just…
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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…
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One of my most popular resources in recent years has been my periodic tables. I’ve made a number of them, namely: The Periodic Table of iPad Apps (with various updates for new iOS releases) The Periodic Table of iPad STEAM Apps The Periodic Table of iPad Apps for AR and VR …
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