LaunchPad for iOS is simply awesome. I use it all the time. Honestly, I use it more for recreation than I do education but I see and hear about teachers wanting to have access to good quality copyright free music all the time. What better way than to create your…
Visuals are so powerful. Carl Hendrick wrote recently about motivational posters recently here and I tend to agree when they’re used out of context, however I think visualisations can be a great learning tool, particularly when students make them themselves. We can embed learning linked to numeracy in lots of…
One of my favourite apps for iPad is Book Creator, not just because of its massive potential for learning and collaboration but because it provides great opportunity for authentic learning in the classroom. It’s no small wonder then that it won best App at the Bett Show earlier this year….
Explain Everything continues to be the #1 App for mobile devices. Of this, for me, there is no doubt. With that in mind, I thought I’d make some long overdue screencasts showing how to work with the various aspects of the App. From organising files to animating elements to importing…
I was delighted to be asked to deliver the opening keynote and to run some workshops too at the Streetly Academy Chromebook Conference. The focus for my keynote, (apart from including my favourite Chrome extensions and the wins you can get from the main Google Apps) was about the power of…
I have been fortunate to be working on Jersey all this week with teachers on their use of technology alongside ‘Aspire 2 Be’; Simon Pridham, Martyn Hancock and someone who has been a friend of mine for some years now – Mat Pullen. As part of the work I have…
Canva for iPad is brilliant. I was a fan of it in its browser form when it first came out. You can make some lovely images with it. Lots of options for layouts, fonts, text positioning, layering, all sorts. If you think it’s going to be Photoshop – stop. It’s…
The TMTakeOvers were my first ever opportunity to present at Bett 5 or so years ago and for that I’ll always be very grateful. With that in mind, for me it was a real delight to catch up with their CEO Chris Bradford from BrainPOP UK on the BrainPOP stand and do another…
As I zipped over to the #BettFutures stand trying to politely dodge the sales pitches and get there on time, I could see as I grew closer that a big crowd had formed there already. Over the years I’ve become progressively more confident to talking in front of others. Those of…
I haven’t done this before but someone’s inspired me of late through her awesome sharing and brilliant creative work that she’s been doing. Her name is Sylvia Duckworth – an educator from Toronto, Canada. Sylvia is a Google Certified Teacher and a French teacher. Sylvia has been doing lots of sketchnoting and sharing…
You must be logged in to post a comment.