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

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 [...]

24 January 2010 0 Comments

Language Differences around the Twitterverse

Language Differences around the Twitterverse

A few weeks ago, I had to prepare for an assembly for the Key Stage 2 pupils at my school. The topic I had been given was ‘Differences in the UK’. This seemed like quite an open topic, so I decided to focus on one particular type of difference… variations in the language.
As a person [...]

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