You really should follow Ben. Reading his research strongly influenced the way I currently about EdTech. Quick adoption of new ‘free’ tools can be a dangerous path to tread. I have been guilty of this in the past. Beware of shiny digital buttons!
Always worth thinking about what “free” means. I think there is something in the idea of teachers exploring software, finding possibilities, testing & playing with pupils and evaluating. As opposed to using software designed for education by big tech.
Saving this here for following up after the summer break.
The concept had passed me by somehow until Mr Dorman from the @PedagogyTeamNLC introduced them to my class, which very much enjoyed by the children. I had planned on thinking about this a bit more, but other things happened.
Today Arron’s bookmark reminded me and took me to Librarians turned Google Forms into the unlikely platform for virtual escape rooms which links to this example: Hogwarts Digital Escape Room.
I’ve seem a few examples using OneNote and google forms before but this is probably the smoothest experience.
I had wondered if using password protected WordPress posts or pages would work.
I even make a simple set up Make an Escape which produces a sort of digital multi lock (all the answers are 123) before lockdown.
Today I started doing a little reading following Arron’s links, Breakout EDU Additional Game Creator Lab Resources – bit.ly/boeduresources – Google Slides looks as if it is worth borrowing from.
I didn’t find the lack of video for pupils a problem during daily lockdown classes. This post goes over the reason why video might be a problem and lists some ideas for compensating.
also keeping in mind some people are voice shy, and some people have noisy home environments
Although from a higher ed perspective it all rings true from a primary perspective.
#tiktokphotowalks hashtag on Instagram
Dave Caleb and his alter ego: Dave caleb (@tiktokphotowalks) are posting short iPhone photography tips to tiktok and reposting to instagram.
I am enjoying and I think these would be useful for primary pupils, short and easy to follow.
The Microsoft OneNote Teacher Academy is a learning path comprising four short courses introducing the use of OneNote in teaching for lesson planning, assessment and activities for learning ... These are my notes taken as I followed the learning path, including the reflection questions and my responses.
I’d pretty much decided to use OneNote path next year. My Previous problems lead me to depend on AirDrop, Apple Classroom & Apple Notes in my 1-2-1 iPad classroom. Local was certainly more reliable but lockdown made me think again. Nick Hood, @cullaloe‘s extensive post give me third thoughts.
Preparing for meeting with class this afternoon, squashing images with ImageOptim. Back when I started teaching pupils to blog the first thing I taught them was to resize images for faster upload & download. We relay on bandwidth & servers now, not sure if that is an advance?
Here's here's a selection of tasty projects to give you a flavour of the work I make.
Looks like a good site to inspire classroom art. Some cardboard:-)
Office Lens has been quitting as soon as I open it on my iPad every time. Today I deleted the app and reinstalled immediately. Fixed.
Some poems written by @Banton_Pr Biggies (p4-7) in our Teams Meeting last week. We read the same poem, Long Trip by Langston Hughes, every day and wrote our own at the end of the week.
