App Friday

App Friday

How many of you know about, or have heard of, “App Friday”? App Friday is a weekly promotion to highlight educational apps published each week on the App Friday home page. Every Friday, a grid of apps is published on the site at free or reduced prices. The...
Little Bird’s Internet Security Adventure App

Little Bird’s Internet Security Adventure App

Little Bird’s Internet Security Adventure, is a free children’s book for iPad produced by AVG, the anti-virus software company. It is aimed at parents and teachers of young children. The book is designed to help adults initiate conversations about Internet safety in...
Guest Post: Creating Authors With Booksmart

Guest Post: Creating Authors With Booksmart

What are the greatest aspirations you might have for your students in the various subject areas? From your maths class you might like a mathematician. From SESE, you might hope for a scientist, historian or geologist. From PE, an Olympian. From Visual Arts, a...
Collaborative Writing With Widbook

Collaborative Writing With Widbook

The team behind Widbook contacted me to see if teachers might be interested in this free digital collaborative reading and writing platform that’s creating a buzz among the teaching, tech and publishing industries. It may be of particular interest to those teachers...
Coding With Daisy the Dinosaur App

Coding With Daisy the Dinosaur App

I came across a recommendation from Paul Hamilton on Twitter for the “Daisy the Dinosaur” app and thought teachers might be interested in it. It is an app for younger pupils to help them to learn their first steps in coding/programming. It really is a very...