TouchDevelop lets you create apps on iPad, iPhone, Android, PC,Mac, Windows Phone. Our touch-friendly editor makes coding fun, even on your phone or tablet! Teaching with TouchDevelop Creating Interactive Apps can not only contextualise learning but also offer a huge stimulus for students and teachers in achieving learning outcomes. What is TouchDevelop? TouchDevelop is an online app creation tool from Microsoft Research. Originally designed to develop Windows Phone 7 apps, TouchDevelop has recently been updated as a web app and now allows you to develop Windows Store apps suitable for Windows 8 touch screen devices. TouchDevelop is easy to use and works with several web browsers. https://www.touchdevelop.com/ Lesson Plans & Tutotials http://touchdevelop.weebly.com/td-challenge.html Attend the 9th annual Outstanding Secondary Learning and Teaching conference and take away practical, proven strategies to embed high-quality learning and teaching throughout your school that effectively deliver sustained pupil progress. Catch my session on 'New Technologies' which explores proven innovations that improve pupil engagement in class and measurably raise the Quality of Learning and Teaching. for more info click on the PDF file below;
TeachMeet is an organic movement of educators who are passionate about ICT and technology; Mark started this local group to reflect the exciting developments happening in education - and in Tech City. What is a TeachMeet? A TeachMeet is an organised but informal meeting for teachers to share best practice, practical innovations and personal insights in teaching with technology. You can either join us to 'watch and learn', present for 2 minutes (nano), or present for 7 minutes (micro). Best of all, it's free! Sign Up Now! Click Here START TIMES: TeachMeet Tech City: 6pm - 7.15pm Sponsored drinks break ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edmix: 7.45pm - 9pm Edmix is hosting a demo session inviting edtech entrepreneurs to showcase their business and innovations, and to explore some of the challenges they faces in growing their business. If you run, or are part of an edtech company and interested in presenting your business - and crowd-sourcing your business challenges to a warm audience of 100+ investors, educators and fellow entrepreneurs - please drop edmix a line on: [email protected] Sign Up Now! Click Here ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blockly is a web-based, graphical programming editor. Users can drag blocks together to build an application. No typing required. code.google.com/p/blockly/ The Pearson Labs blog writes about the intersection of technology and education, sharing the best digital stories from our businesses and from across the worldwide web. I love checking out Pearson's Prototype Page every now and again! http://labs.pearson.com/prototypes/ |