MrWarner.com

Welcome to MrWarner.com

Hi! I’m Mark Warner, a primary teacher in the UK. I’ve been teaching for about 10 years, and using ICT in a wide variety of ways in both my professional and my personal life. This blog is a place to share my ideas and experiences. I hope that they're useful to you.

Mark

13 March 2010 0 Comments

Myst – Gathering Ideas for Future Adventures

Myst – Gathering Ideas for Future Adventures

This academic year, we have been trying to work in a more cross-curricular way. Each term, the staff at our school have chosen a topic which all classes and age groups use as the starting point for their work in different curriculum areas. So far this year we have used these topics as our themes [...]

6 March 2010 0 Comments

It’s not a VLE but the children love it!

It’s not a VLE but the children love it!

Since writing my ‘VLEs, MLEs, LPs… Help!‘ post, we have started using the ‘online learning portal’ that I set up. I showed it to staff in my ICT staff meeting a few weeks ago and I’ve been able to go around different Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 classes to introduce it to the [...]

27 February 2010 3 Comments

My Favourite iPhone Apps

My Favourite iPhone Apps

Following a post about ‘My Favourite Mac Apps‘, here is a list of my favourite iPhone Apps…
Apps I use (almost) every day:

Tweetie – A Twitter client. This is one of the apps that I use the most on my iPhone (along with Mail and Byline).
Countdown – A simple application which counts down to particular dates [...]

15 February 2010 3 Comments

My Favourite Mac Apps

My Favourite Mac Apps

Following in the footsteps of Doug Belshaw and Kevin McLaughlin, I have decided to record the applications that I use on my Mac computers most often:
Daily Essentials:

Launchbar – An amazing timesaver which lets you open applications, copy and paste, perform operations, search online, find contact information and much more… all using the keyboard. Also has [...]

7 February 2010 12 Comments

VLEs, MLEs, LPs… Help!

VLEs, MLEs, LPs… Help!

I have a confession to make… VLEs confuse me. The number of terms used to describe them is the first hurdle (Virtual Learning Environments / Managed Learning Environments / Learning Platforms / Portals…)
I’ve done lots of research online, spoken to colleagues in Kent and further afield and chatted to different providers at exhibitions like BETT but [...]

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