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App review – Educreations vs Doceri
One of the first things I looked into installing on our ipads was a whiteboard app. The ones available are like turbocharged mini-whiteboards. Fantastic for ongoing assessment throughout the lesson,...
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App Review – Socrative Student Response System
A few years ago I remember being very jealous of the handheld voting system (think ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ ask the audience) a teacher from the local high school brought in to run a quiz with...
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App Review – Skitch
To me, Skitch is another one of those must-have apps. It’s made by the same developers as Evernote (an app I’ve not yet taken the time to appreciate) and is a simple annotation tool with handy...
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App Review – Coding Apps: Daisy the Dinosaur and Hopscotch
My focus with the iPads is predominantly their use to support learning across the curriculum, but specific ICT (soon to be Computing) skills still need to be taught. According to the draft new National...
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Tip of the day – use Perfect Captions for assessments
As a KS2 teacher there is no equivalent app to those such as 2Simple’s and Orbit’s EYFS profiling apps, but I find my iPad a useful tool in assessment. A recent addition to my toolkit for children has...
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Getting Started – Free iPad ‘course’ online
A few months after I started using iPads in my classroom, I found this excellent resource from Rising Stars. The educational publishing company have recently branched into providing online CPD courses,...
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