Collaborative presentations using tools such as Google Slides have been a staple of my classroom for many years now. I always wanted something to help with that process though, a tool that would help give the activity more meaning - then Pear Deck arrived. An interactive presentation tool, Pear Deck…
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Like it or not, making resources is part of the bread and butter of being a teacher. Sometimes it involves making an explainer video, sometimes it’s creating a presentation or a keyword challenge grid, resources to go on wall displays or templates for book reviews for your students… Resources are…
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Welcome to Day Twenty of the AppVent Calendar. I can't believe it's nearly Christmas - it's been a long month but the days have been flying by! Today's entry on the calendar has been chosen by Em Bell, from Grimsby Institute. I first met Em at #TMHullEY at Malet Lambert…
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Alongside other presentations and keynotes at Bett Show this year, one of my sessions was in the School Leaders Summit which I punnily titled 'Sort IT out'... https://twitter.com/josepicardoSHS/status/690563703452884993 It was a presentation which looked at the hallmarks and milestones recognised in schools which have achieved a decent level of technology use…
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I wrote recently about adding fonts to your iOS devices and so I thought I would also share how you can add custom fonts to your Mac or PC too. It's a really simple process. Before that though I thought I would share more about the brilliant dafont site. Dafont…
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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…
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I am not saying that PowerPoint is the best program ever, but I do know that it is still one of the most used presentation tools out there. I'm definitely one for trying to make your presentation slide decks as impactful and beautiful as possible. It engages learners and sets…
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PowerPoint. It is much maligned and certainly has its place in the education world. Even advances with Apple's Keynote with Keynote in the cloud are a step forward, however, I would argue that we as educators should seek to set a higher bar on the way we present materials. Subjects…
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Those of you that know me will know that I've been a massive fan of Explain Everything for a very long time now. It's widely regarded as one of the best apps for learning on iPad and quite rightly so. As a device for supporting flipped learning it is brilliant.…
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I was alerted to this great tool the other week by the great Doug Belshaw when he made this presentation here: http://dougbelshaw.com/presentations/2012/eskills/index.html#/ - this web based presentation has a number of key benefits to it. For starters, it's really really simple to use, particularly if you use the web based creation tool found…
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