There are a lot of great features within your iPad that are often unknown to teachers. These can be organised into your Control Centre for quick access. From locking your students into particular apps to recording the screen, even having text read aloud to you! Find out how you can take control and customise your Control Centre.
I began to write this blog on a flight to Sydney. Once the meal service began there was no room for both the food and the iPad. As the iPad took a break, I began to watch ‘Rocketman’ and was struck by a line in the movie; ‘You only get so many chances in life and this is one of yours – so take it and make the most of it.’ How often do we do this in our classrooms?
Classrooms all over the world are now filled with all sorts of amazing technology, but the big question is,’How well is this technology being used?’
Using it for substitution is a great place to begin if you’re new to it, but it should never be a place to stay. This blog looks at four ways to use digital devices beyond the substitution level.
Do you often find yourself searching for online images to use and then wishing you could remember where you found certain ones? This blog post will show you how you can curate a collection of these online images using the Chrome web browser so that you can easily access anytime you like.
One question I get asked all the time is how do I teach with technology when I have limited resources. Maybe you have 5 devices for 25 students.
In this video, Alice Keeler and I discuss strategies for enabling collaboration and ICT integration into lessons when resources are limited. Whether you have a BYOD program or no program, these strategies will help you teach with ICT.
This short video will show a comparison between Teacher Dashboard by Hapara and Classroom by Google. We’ll have a quick look at some of the positive and negatives or some of the strengths and weaknesses of both programs and then show you how you can use both together to get the best results.
Teacher Dashboard by hapara has had a facelift!
There are some great new features and the new User Interface seems to work a lot more smoothly.
In this video we show you through what has changed and and how you can access a free trial if you are not already using this great tool.
If you could change one thing about your teaching practice what would it be? It might come as a bit of surprise to most teachers but I wouldn’t change my teaching strategies, my classroom management plan, my class rules, and I wouldn’t find new ways to deliver the content. All of those things can be
How do you decide what class rules you should have? I have found that when I ask this question of teachers I generally get one of two responses: A blank look Or a response that goes something like, “I just have all the ‘normal’ rules that every teacher has” Why is this a problem?
Every teacher has used a lesson plan at some stage in their career (even if it was just while you were being assessed) but very few teachers have a teaching plan for the coming year where they identify 2 or 3 main areas and that they need to improve in and then do everything they
One of the areas of student motivation that attracts the most discussion amongst teachers is how to reward students. I have previously witten a few posts on how to manage student rewards in such a way that the student doesn’t become more interested in the reward than in their learning. You can read about the
I want you to imagine you are about to go for an operation. You walk into the surgeon’s office and on the wall are his credentials. As you look at his certificates you notice that he has a trade in butchery but nothing at all suggesting that he has been to medical school. The doctor
