Every educator needs a space to curate, develop and share their research, reading and resources. Enter Wakelet. Wakelet is one of those essential tools that every educator should have in their teaching and learning toolkit, and for lots of reasons too. It's why I included it in my Appvent Calendar…
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I'm very pleased to be working closely with NetSupport again at BETT and you will be able to find me on their stand every day throughout the trade fair. There will be a plethora of amazing presenters on the stand again delivering non-sponsored content, sharing their stories from their classrooms…
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If you've met me in the last few years you'll know what a huge advocate I am for Adobe Spark in the classroom. To pick a favourite from their three offerings would be too difficult however there has been a recent update to Spark Page that I had to share.…
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So if you haven't noticed, Storify is shutting up shop and is now no longer accepting new users with the platform being closed down in May this year. It's quite disappointing when this sort of thing happens. I was gutted when my initial blogging platform, 'Posterous' shut down all those…
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A while ago I created a Padlet to curate some ideas for using Microsoft's tools in the classroom. The Padlet has had some great engagement and there is a load of ideas shared on there. It really has been brilliant to see all of these coming in onto the wall.…
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There's one sure fire way of helping to bring your designs and documents to life and that is through the use of simple iconography. I wrote about the brilliant flaticon site in my secret edtech weapons post here. Always keeping something back for myself, I didn't share the Noun Project's…
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One of the key roles of a teacher is to act as role models for the young people in the classes within which they teach. I'm a firm believer in working with colleagues the same way as you would with children. I don't mean that you treat adults as if they're…
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Thanks to all involved last weekend for setting up the brilliant Primary Rocks day in Manchester. What struck me straight away were the brilliant pupils from Medlock Primary School who greeted us so warmly at the door with our goodie bags, a smile and a welcome. They were fantastic representatives…
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TeachMeets are always a special occasion. Teachers being brave, sharing things from their classroom or personal learning journey.... What can I say - another brilliant event at the Quintin Kynaston school for #TMLondon. Expertly organised by Diane Leedham, Amjad Ali, Andy Lewis, Martin Burrett, Bennie Kara, myself; crafted by Ross McGill…
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Following on from yesterday's popular crib sheet for Twitter, I thought I'd do one for Pinterest too. I've been a big fan of Pinterest in education for a long time now as discussed for example in this post from 2013. There is lots to love about it, both on a…
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