Soft Technology

Recently, I shared this video about some little-known punctuation marks:  It seemed to get a great reaction from teachers so I decided to put together a little video to show how you can add some of these punctation marks to your iPhone or iPad keyboard. The following video explains how to do it: Make sure you follow on Mr P on:

Here is a video with some of my top tips for the new school year. This isn't tech based, it has more of a focus on wellbeing! Please feel free to share: Make sure you follow on Mr P on:

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Like most people, I am a MASSIVE fan of Game of Thrones. I do know how I will survive waiting for the final season! I have previously blogged about the 12 Game of Thrones Characters You See In Every School!  and What We Learn from Tyrion about Teaching! Over the summer, I have created a series of videos using clips from the show to depict life as a teacher. I have created 7 different volumes, one for each season. I hope you enjoy, if you do, please follow my page on Instagram : For any #gameofthrones fans! Life as a Teacher told through Game of Thrones Vol. 1 #teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #teachers #teachersofig #got7 #got #teacherlife A post shared by Lee Parkinson (@ict_mrp) on Aug 16, 2017 at 12:47pm PDT Life as a Teacher told through Game of Thrones vol. 2 Tag a #gameofthrones fan! Vol. 1 here - https://instagram.com/p/BX3fB8QFchu/ #teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #teacher #teacherlife A post shared by Lee Parkinson (@ict_mrp) on Aug 18, 2017 at 11:11am

Firstly, a massive shout out to  @MrPieLee  as it was on his Instagram page where I first saw this app in action.  I love using visuals in my teaching, I love allowing my pupils to use technology to create and share their understanding through the use of visuals. I love the Live Photo feature in newer Apple devices which brings photos to life by recording what happens 1.5 seconds before and after you take a picture. I previously blogged about Live Photos and how we used the app Quik to share our recent Year 6 residential with parents. You can read it here. This is an example of a video where we used the live photo option. The added movement adds so much more when sharing and presenting. This was a message that came through when I attended a session at the recent Apple ADE summit. The app Plotagraph is a fantastic tool to add animation to a photo.  The app isn't the cheapest, at roughly around a £5, it is more on the expensive side for an app. However, it is a great tool to bring p

One of the most exciting things to come out of the Apple ADE Summit was being part of the TechTeachGoals project. I have previously blogged about it here.  Here is a quick video explaining the project: The project will be sharing different apps and tools to use in the classroom to support different areas of teaching and learning. The first set of videos focused on assessment. These videos will hopefully give you an insight into some useful tech tools to use in the classroom to help with all things assessment. 1. Plickers by @ICT_MrP 2. Kahoot by  @rooie_smithy 3. Socrative by  @dunne_robbie 4. Seesaw by @Headdowneyesup 5. Explain Everything by  @MrTullock 6. Showbie by  @assthead_jones 7. Apple Classroom by @assthead_jones We are now working on our next set of videos focusing on presentation... watch this space!

Social Media is such a powerful tool to use in the classroom. I talk about this a lot on my training; demonstrating how it can be used to enhance learning in lots of different ways in the classroom and beyond. As a teacher, I love using social media as a CPD tool. I have always been a massive advocate of using twitter as a teacher. One of my early blog posts talks about why every teacher should be on twitter, you can view it here.  Personally, I now find Facebook to be an excellent way to discover new ideas, share resources and gain inspiring insights and views on everything education related. There are a wealth of Facebook groups where you can post questions, share ideas and resources and learn from some amazing teachers all over the world. The reason why I would recommend joining these groups is that it gives you a platform to ask questions beyond your school walls. Sometimes, you may find yourself in a school where the other staff aren't as supportive or have a particular way of

We've noticed that Techcity did some good testing on the AMD Ryzen 3 1200 paired with a GIGABYTE AB350 gaming board. It turns out that overclocking the CPU really gives it a serious performance boost, check it out!

Here we go guys, the X399 overclocking guide is ready. Check it out the following link for more details.

The new Intel Core i9 16-core, 32-thread monster is out and about. We noticed a whole bunch of overclocking records being set in the 16 core processor category and 7960X is the new king. GIGABYTE X299 board was once again the go to weapon to help achieve these records. The craziest part was that it ran as high as 5.6GHz in a multithreaded benchmark (all cored loaded). Liquid nitrogen was obviously needed to keep this bad boy cool. Congratulations to all!

TeamAU is back at it with 3DMARK01 world record going down today. They also broke a historic 72K points in 3DMARK06 to retake the world record in that benchmark as well. GIGABYTE X299 and Intel Core i7 7740X powered these records and we want to congratulate TeamAU on this achievement. 3DMARK01 Link 3DMARK06 Link