Tag Archives: iPads

Reduce long urls to a click

Posted on May 21, 2017 by AlanP

View this video to see how you can use justpaste.it to reduce a long url to a clickable one. Great for mLearning on phones and tablets. In short: Copy a web link from a website. Go to justpaste.it Write a … Continue reading →

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iPad – teachers and parents in control

Posted on December 21, 2016 by AlanP

Earlier this month I went to a meeting about the introduction of iPads to my children’s secondary school and was astonished regarding how far iPads have progressed in terms of being more suitable for education. I have taught classes with … Continue reading →

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Chromebooks vs iPads – the trend is clear. But why?

Posted on November 27, 2015 by AlanP

Having spent some years teaching with iPads, and teaching others to use iPads, I was sceptical as to how useful Chromebooks could really be. When I was asked by my daughter’s school to provide her with a Chromebook, I baulked … Continue reading →

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Android and Microsoft best tablets for sharing at schools?

Posted on December 29, 2014 by AlanP

If you are a teacher using a shared set of iPads (or, more to the point, the person who has the job of advocating and troubleshooting such an approach) over a whole school or between some classes, have you asked … Continue reading →

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Best Free iPad Presentation Apps

Posted on December 25, 2013 by AlanP

I was asked which apps were best for an iPad multimedia presentation – primarily to assess speaking, but the ability to add text and photos was also desired. The simpler the better. The list got cut down to 3: Book Creator, … Continue reading →

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How do you share material and collect work in this digital era?

Posted on December 13, 2013 by AlanP

I remember my first day with an iPad in a class. I couldn’t find any decent way of getting the material I wanted to share to my students. I had planned to do it using WebDav but that didn’t work, … Continue reading →

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Keep tabs on how your students are performing on their iPads.

Posted on January 12, 2013 by AlanP

You have a class of 20 students and they work at different speeds. You do your best to keep tabs on their performance in an activity, but really, with an average of 2.5 minutes to attend to each student in … Continue reading →

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