It is the case that many classes don't have access to things such as one-to-one iPads or even bring your own device. You may even be a teacher who make students but their phones away every single lesson. That's fine. If that's how you work. You know better than I…
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With this new academic year looming ever closer, I’ve been thinking about what it must like to be an NQT starting your teaching career in the current edu-political climate in the UK. Certainly, I don't think there has ever actually been a better time to be a teacher. In my…
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The more I learn as a grown up, the less I know that I know. There are vast bodies of knowledge out there that I have not had contact with and really could probably avoid in my day to day life. So why shouldn't I? It would certainly be easier.…
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There are many different blogs out there and some people such as @headguruteacher, @learningspy that get hundreds, even thousands of hits every day. These types of blogs are great and help move thinking forward on lots of different levels. Don't be phased though. Most of us have started our blogging…
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There doesn't really seem to be a clear common consensus as to whether a Twitter PLN should be a professional or a personal learning network. Certainly I think it should probably be a bit of both. Also, as when dealing with all social media, you should be mindful of your…
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Imagine Explain Everything with a few less sharing options or annotation features and you've got Shadow Puppet. So why use it if you have EE? Well, it's just the ease, simplicity and opportunity of just quickly being able to interact with images, record your voice and then share with others.…
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Just been doing some posters for work and made some to share too. Interested in how I did them? I used original background photos from a recent plane journey. I then edited using the iPad app 'Over' £1.49 available here - the work here mainly constituted the icons and some of…
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About 6 years ago, a web 2.0 tool came along called 'Wallwisher' which everyone raved about and it really was the belle of the edtech ball. It was very popular indeed, but over time, it became more unpredictable and thus unreliable. As time rolled on so less and less teachers…
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