eLearning Laura

I recently wrote an article jointly with the Principal of Berkhamsted School, Mark Steed, on ICT as a catalyst for change in pedagogy. It was published in the ISC Bulletin, 29, June 2012, pp.30-34.   ‘Each change in technology in schools makes us revisit and re-evaluate how and why we do what we do in the [...]

I have exciting news. My classroom at school is now kitted out with an Apple TV and an Airport Express (Father Christmas did eventually deliver!) so I can wirelessly mirror my iPad onto my board at the front of the room. This has really got me thinking about the joy of untethering from my IWB, [...]

    This is the video I created at the Apple Teacher Institute 2012 this week in Cheltenham. I made it for my team as a strategic tool to open our professional development session at the beginning of term. I was keen to produce something with a genuine purpose (it was going to take a [...]

I made my first ever Infographic today. I used the online tool Piktochart.com and was very impressed! Here it is:   Related PostsLanguage acquisition in babies

I wish I could travel back in time to the era when children in school stopped writing on slates and started writing on paper and in exercise books. It must have been the most tremendous shift: students could accumulate a bank of their own written work and it no longer had to be carried entirely [...]

Joe Moretti passed on this list of iPad apps for a variety of classroom purposes from edtechteacher.org, which I think is superb. The categories are: Reader Creator Student Response System Classroom Manager Study Tool Organizer Differentiator Click here to take a look at the list!  

On my iPad I have developed a folder of tools I use in the classroom I have called ‘accelerators’. They don’t necessarily add huge value when used alone, but as part of a workflow they have quickly become firm favourites. There are literally hundreds of apps that perform functions like these so finding something that [...]

iPads are fantastic for creating what we could call ‘digital output’, ie. a product of learning that is more engaging, dynamic or sophisticated than putting old fashioned pen to paper. I firmly believe that allowing students scope to create a product which is more tangible than just evidence, eg. the answers to an exercise, is [...]

Getting students writing isn’t always easy, especially in a foreign language. My search for writing apps for the iPad has been focussed on clean, unfussy experience and an emphasis on productivity without frills that distract in the classroom. Here are the results of our roadtests in MFL classrooms. Here’s my pick of the best writing [...]

Looking for iPad apps that really work in the classroom? This is the first in a series of posts designed to share the results of my roadtests in the MFL classrooms at Berkhamsted School. For Modern Languages, apps that effectively allow students to work with audio are tremendously powerful. Here’s my pick of the best [...]