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Keeping your head above water: Productivity tips for teachers 8 Aug 2013 | 06:05 pm
This blog has always focused on those online resources and applications that can be exploited to support teaching and learning. However today I’d like to give you a quick run down of the tools and ser...
Supporting Evidence for Naace Impact Award 12 Feb 2013 | 01:33 am
I feel extremely humbled at the fact that the words impact and award are being uttered alongside my name deliberately - and not by mistake, as one might imagine might be more likely. If you feel that ...
A Changing Educational Landscape 10 Feb 2013 | 03:07 am
Teaching and Learning with New and Emerging Technologies
Wordfoto: a picture worth a thousand words 5 Sep 2012 | 12:45 am
Wordfoto is an iPhone and iPod app that allows you turn any photograph into a mosaic made up of your chosen words, which can then be used to reinforce words or concepts, not just in language learning,...
Using Glogster as an assessment tool 24 Aug 2012 | 09:53 pm
Peer assessing in this way using the commenting facility in blogs becomes a very effective way for students to assess each other. In addition, the teacher can also see immediately if there are any are...
MentorMob 15 Jul 2012 | 04:11 am
There is a lot of gold on the Internet but sometimes your students can spend a huge amount of time mining for it, searching and getting distracted by content that is not relevant to the task in hand. ...
Storybird: Providing a Tangible Outcome 21 Apr 2012 | 09:59 pm
My fondest memories of school are of the occasions on which I made stuff. When I think about what other aspects of my learning I enjoyed most, I always come back to the basic principle of creativity. ...
Showcasing Content with Jux 15 Feb 2012 | 11:41 pm
Jux is a stunning image-based alternative to what you might call ordinary blogging and allows the user to make impactful statements and delightful slideshows using their six different posting styles –...
Reviewing Apple’s iBooks Author 23 Jan 2012 | 05:13 am
Apple recently announced the launch of its free iBooks Author desktop application, which – they claim – “allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book...
Teaching and Learning with Social Media: A Case Study 1 Jan 2012 | 03:21 am
In my role as teacher of languages, I have sought to study and understand how the social aspect of Web 2.0 can be harnessed to strengthen the teaching and learning of MFL. Most interesting to me was t...
