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Jun 02 2023

Are you serious about wellbeing?

By Mark Anderson EdTech, wellbeing, Work with me No Comments

I'm thrilled to share that one of my latest clients is the fabulous youHQ for Schools, a whole-school wellbeing platform that provides students, teachers, and parents with the resources they need to thrive. I've been passionate about using technology in positive ways in education for a long time, and I…

Dec 02 2022

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Day Two of #Appvent22 welcomes a fantastic app to promote whole school wellbeing

By Mark Anderson Appvent, EdTech, Leadership No Comments

Welcome to Day Two of #Appvent22. We are delighted to share another calendar of superb apps, tools, and services. With a great start to the event yesterday, we proceed today with an award-winning platform that is having a huge impact on staff wellbeing. Staff wellbeing has rightly become a hot…

Dec 24 2021

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As we open day 24 on the 2021 #AppventCalendar, we find…

By Mark Anderson Appvent No Comments

The Appvent Calendar this year has been something I’m truly proud of. With contributors from around the world representing diverse voices from across education, the calendar has shared 23 great tools for supporting various aspects of teaching, learning, sharing, creativity, project management, literacy, numeracy and so much more. It would…

Dec 10 2021

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Welcome to day ten of the 2021 #AppventCalendar where today we share the fabulous @Persona_Edu – a superb solution to support wellbeing

By Mark Anderson Appvent, EdTech No Comments

Welcome to Day Ten of the 2021 Appvent Calendar! I've been bowled over by the quality and diversity of the entries on the calendar so far this year. So many fantastic tools and ideas for their use have been shared. If there's one area that we all know our young…

Jan 10 2021

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Values, vision and learning in the remote classroom

By Mark Anderson Covid, CPD, EdTech, Education, Home Learning, Leadership, Learning, Remote Learning No Comments

Well, here we are again, back in lockdown and remote learning in full swing. As I look around the Twittersphere there are many strands to learning and teaching. On the one hand, you have Gavin Williamson and cronies asking for parents to tattle on schools not doing well. You have…

Dec 22 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Twenty-Two – Own It!

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Computing, Digital Leaders, EdTech, esafety, Positivity, Social Media No Comments

Good morning and welcome to Day Twenty Two of the AppVent Calendar! AppVent Calendar - Day 22 Today's app, I think, is very timely as many parents look to satisfy their children's craving for more technology at Christmas. I know just from my own personal experience how much my own…

Jan 22 2018

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Three areas where edtech can help you and ways to do it

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Education, educators, Food for thought, ICT, Positivity, Resources No Comments

Workload has always been an issue in the teaching profession. Over the years I've picked up a few handy hints to help me get through it all. There are lots of free tools you can use to help you make your life that little bit easier and take off some…

Sep 10 2017

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#threequestionsEDU with Bukky Yusuf @rondelle10_b

By Mark Anderson #threequestionsEDU, Educator Spotlight, Food for thought No Comments

Thanks to everyone who has checked out the responses to the #threequestionsEDU series so far. With the term starting for many I thought I'd pause it for a few days and let things settle down a bit. I've been really enjoying the responses so far. I find it refreshing to…

Aug 23 2017

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Ways that technology can help with wellbeing

By Mark Anderson educators, personal, Positivity, Tips No Comments

There are lots of reasons why it makes sense to use technology to help us with our personal and our professional lives. The signs of poor mental wellbeing are things such as anxiety and depression. The causes of anxiety and depression for teachers are often things such as workload, too…

Jun 21 2017

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Have a break… have a Twitter break

By Mark Anderson Food for thought No Comments

It's that time of year again where being a teacher is probably more stressful than ever. Teachers are worrying about how their classes will be getting on with their exams or phonics tests and classrooms are hotter than ever. There has been talk on Twitter today about an article on…