Category: Classroom Management

Customise the Control Centre on your classroom iPads

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.

Are you seizing the moment?

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?

Four ways to move beyond substitution with the SAMR model

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.

Create a collection of images in Chrome

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.

How to Work with Limited Devices in a Classroom

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.

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A Comparison of Teacher Dashboard by Hapara and Google Classroom

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 New User Interface

Teacher Dashboard New User Interface

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.

How to decide what class rules you should have

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

3 Areas to Include in Your Teaching Plan

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

Get Creative With How You Reward Your Students

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

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