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Instashare -An iOS/Mac app for instant transfer of files
After viewing my post on the benefits of FileBrowser, one of my Twitter colleagues alerted me to an app I had not heard of with similar functionality – Instashare. After downloading and checking it...
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iPurpose before iPad
The two above images are good examples of purposeful thinking about iPad usage in schools. One, a screenshot of an oft-used tool known as iPad As.. by edtechteacher.org, focuses on what the iPad can...
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Using Padlet (f.k.a. WallWisher) across the curriculum
Over the last few years, I’ve been looking for ways to make interactive whiteboards actually interactive. Despite the hype around them, iWBs still promote stand at the front content delivery and the...
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Documenting Learning in Mathematics (or any other subject) using Padlet
In my role as Maths Leader in Grades 5/6, I have many opportunities to work with groups of children in both Grade levels. Sometimes I find it hard to report back to the classroom teachers what...
View ArticleCUE13 – Keynote: Kevin Honeycutt – Trends, Tools and Tactics for 21st Century...
Everyone has their favourite inspirational speaker. Every teacher out there has probably seen Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talks and every school leadership team has a playlist of YouTube videos of their...
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TouchCast – interactive, browsable web in a video – insert possibilities here!
For a fully interactive version of this video, go to the Touchcast website and see it in action. Just when I thought the Explain Everything iPad app was going to be my ‘go to’ app for everything in...
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Why we need more visual texts in our teaching and learning
Found this fantastic infographic touting the success of infographics. Reading it ( or more correctly, viewing it) immediately focused my thoughts on the use of visual texts in classrooms today. Click...
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Google Maps in Education
I’m attending my local Melbourne TeachMeet tomorrow with a focus on Google Apps in Education. I have put together a quick Keynote presentation regarding Google Maps in Education that I am going to...
View ArticleGoogle Apps and Collaboration – a TeachMeet Melbourne Perspective
As I said in my last post, I presented at the October addition of TeachMeet Melbourne. With a Google Summit happening in Melbourne this week, the focus of the meet was Google Apps and Collaboration and...
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Easy guide to Creative Commons Attribution and additional resources
In the days when great edtech was a child printing out a Word document to give to the teacher or a teacher presenting a lesson to the class via a garish PowerPoint slideshow complete with lasertext...
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