#iPad - ICTEvangelist

Jan 11 2015

Vidra for iPad – free video creation tool

By Mark Anderson iPad 10 Comments

Vidra is a great free new app from the creators of the also brilliant Grafio - TenTouch Apps. I was using Grafio on my iPad today and saw that they were promoting this new app - the end result looked pretty good and not too dissimilar to Adobe Voice (which I…

Dec 23 2014

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Google vs Apple in Education

By Mark Anderson EdTech 8 Comments

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,…

Nov 19 2014

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My presentation for #TMStockport

By Mark Anderson ICT 2 Comments

My presentation for #TMStockport was quite a difficult choice. Knowing who else was speaking and the topic of use of technology, I wanted to do something on purposeful use - yes... I know... but I had an inkling that their host @ICT_MrP would probably cover that, so I went for…

Nov 02 2014

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The 12 iPad lessons of Christmas

By Mark Anderson iPad One Comment

A very short post just to say I have had a look at Lee Parkinson's (@ICT_MrP) new book "The 12 iPad lessons of Christmas" on iBooks today. It's got some great ideas in there for lessons using iPads in a Primary setting whilst in the run up to Christmas. He…

Oct 05 2014

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Freaked Out??!!

By Mark Anderson Books One Comment

With my interests in technology, when I heard that Simon Pridham was writing the long awaited 'Freaked Out' book for Crown House I was eager to find out what he had to say. As someone who has been on a similar journey with using mobile technology albeit in a Primary…

Sep 14 2014

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Google Slides for iOS

By Mark Anderson EdTech 15 Comments

Google Slides for iOS is here and I have to say I am pretty impressed. Making the triumvirate of Google Docs and Sheets whole, for a free app on your iPhone or iPad that gives you access to a presentation tool, it is really good. To say that it is everything…

Aug 09 2014

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Grafio – for infographics, flowcharts, posters

By Mark Anderson iPad 4 Comments

It's no secret if you follow my blog that I love the Grafio App. With huge export sizes and vector graphics, it's a quality App. And it's half price at the moment. Only £2.49. Here's a previous post I wrote about it - and it's had some really serious updates…

Jul 23 2014

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The periodic table of iPad Apps

By Mark Anderson iPad, iPad apps 47 Comments

I was recently inspired by Sean Junkins' (@sjunkins) periodic table of iPad Apps. I thought it was a really useful too - being able to map Apps to activities - I thought it a really helpful too. With that in mind, I wanted to be able to use it as…

Jul 01 2014

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Apple step up their support for education

By Mark Anderson iPad 2 Comments

Apple have just done a few things to make everyone's lives a little bit easier. Firstly, they've just launched a new 'Apple in Education' section on iTunes with some cracking podcasts on there to help get you up and running. Check them all out here. There are lots and lots…