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 [...]

17 January 2010 3 Comments

BETT 2010 – my best BETT (part one)

BETT 2010 – my best BETT (part one)

BETT is the world’s largest educational technology event and it takes place every year in Olympia, London. Last year, I wasn’t able to go, but I was determined to visit the event this year.
Having been eight or nine times before, my usual BETT routine is something like this:

Visit the show without a plan or anything [...]

12 October 2008 7 Comments

Choosing children at random…

Choosing children at random…

One of the tools that Tim Rylands showed at the Kent ICT conference, was ‘The Hat’. This is probably the thing that I’ve used the most since the conference. I also showed it to other staff at my recent staff meetingĀ and it’s now being used in many classrooms across the school.
The Hat (available from Harmony [...]

2 October 2008 0 Comments

Staff Meeting time…

Staff Meeting time…

Every so often at school, I’m able to run a staff meeting. I always enjoy these, as it’s a chance for me to share new ideas about ICT with other members of staff. Many of our ICT meetings are linked to new software or equipment that has arrived in school, but I wanted this one [...]

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