During a recent trip to Spain with the RED Project I was introduced to Action Bound App. The idea is that you use your device to explore a new area. It guides you to various points in a location at which you need to then take a selfie or answer trivia questions. Basically like modern day…
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GarageBand is an app I used a lot on Mac in the early days but I never engaged much with the iPad version until a couple of months back when I found myself being asked to run workshops and CPD for teachers. One thing that really helped was when I discovered MIDI tracks can be…
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A couple of weeks ago I was invited by South African reseller Think Ahead to present at their Coding Summit in Johannesburg. Surprised by the invite I was making all kinds of excuses not to go but in the end it was too good not go. The support I received from Think Ahead in the…
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Each year I teach digital media and that includes the creation of all kinds of digital media by my students ranging from photos to videos, websites and multi-touch books. My one group have four subjects including Work Experience. This is a subject I never chose to teach but one I found myself taking on a…
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Managed Apple IDs were announced over a year ago and I never really had a need or want for them. I had been using my own Apple ID for close to 10 years so you can just imagine the history of purchases and downloads associated with it. However, this quickly changed at the Apple Education…
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Schoolwork a new Apple app for teachers was launched this week and is everything we have been waiting for. It is a way of handing out assessments and receiving and marking students work. This release came too late for my current classes but I look forward to using it in September. To enable School work…
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Clips is a free video-creation Apple app for iOS that devices that was launched early in 2017. Since it’s launch I have been using it both personally and in the classroom. Going back a couple of years the video creation section of my digital media module used to take weeks or learning and content gathering.…
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I first heard about Assemblr at BETT 2018. Having used both AR and Octagon apps in the past I was keen to give it a try. Assemblr is a free app that allows students to build virtual worlds in a Minecraft like setting and then view them in a real-life setting using AR or VR. Students…
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For this, you will need the Sphero Edu app as well as a Sphero or SPRK+ This activity will demonstrate how you can use loops, functions, colours and sound to code a weather forecast. Each weather type is a separate function an example of which can be seen below. The full activity can be downloaded…
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The Learning Games project was an ERASMUS funded project which examined the use of gamification in education. The focus was to develop an App that would allow for gamification in all classrooms from secondary to university level. The project had partners from Spain, Germany, Ireland, Hungary and Turkey. I was lucky to be part of this…
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