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"Imagine four schools that had a partnership/agreement that would mean that for a four week cycle, each school's blog would be the focus for one week out of four. Each school in the Quad would spend some time visiting the blog of the school for that week, leave comments etc. After that week, another one of the four schools would be the focus and this would be repeated for the four week cycle and then repeated."

A blog post outlining how to introduce programming to our youngest students in an interesting and involving way - no computers needed!!!

A well-reasoned and balanced post by @moodleyou sets out the arguments

Taking the lead from the 'Marginal Gains' strategy that served TeamGB cyclists so well, MLG blog gives advice on how to "... hone in on just one tiny aspect of our teaching, hence the mantra, "Tiny Changes, Big Difference"" all from the foundation of improving learning.

"The Best iOS Apps for Students and Teachers" from Richard Byrne

"I strongly urge educators calling it Bring-Your-Own-TECHNOLOGY"

"The successful 100% normalised use of BYOT - and here I stress I'm talking BYOT, not BYOD - will, of its own volition, logically only enhance the learning of several key attributes in the students." via Mal Lee

"BYOD isn't a recommendation, it's a realty. Everyone's bought one and everyone uses one and everyone carries it around with them. When we organise a meeting or conference, we don't send people an email telling them what device to bring, neither do we buy or lease a whole load of computers and hand them out." via @DonaldClark

conjunction with Explain Everything, students now have the ability to publish blog posts through their existing Evernote account that can include customized images, graphics or posters. One of my favorite uses for Explain Everything is to create graphics by using the cropping image & text feature. Once the graphic is created, it can either be exported to the camera roll or uploaded directly to Evernote. Once the image is included in the Evernote note that is tagged with "published", the blog post will appear on the Postach.io blog with the custom image. (If publishing directly from Explain Everything to Evernote, remember to go into the note and add the "published" tag word).

Thorough discussion of the flipped classroom together with an exploration of how to implement it.

"WPBadger is a simple WordPress plugin for issuing badges and adding them to a user's Open Badges backpack. "

"KS2 Songs and Primary School Curriculum Music to Support Teaching and Learning for Children in Maths, Literacy and Science. "