Mark Pentleton

Since 2005 I’ve been part of a community of educationalists from around the world who are recognised for “doing amazing things with Apple technology”. I first became an Apple Distinguished Educator while I was working on the Partners in Excellence languages and technology project where we were using film-making, animation, music production and podcasting to motivate [...]

As we reach the end of 2010 I thought it only right to have a think back through an extremely busy year and make some notes for posterity!
Radio Lingua
Four years ago, in an attempt to keep my language teaching roots alive while focusing on other things working with the East Ayrshire education team, I decided [...]

I’ve spent today working with my 8 year-old’s class as part of my Radio Lingua Schools work. I was leading an animation workshop and was very proud of the work of my son’s group. Their animation is part of a project in which the school is developing an ‘animated encyclopaedia’, with the children showing other [...]

Now this looks very interesting indeed, and I wonder if it will answer some of the questions I posted on the announcement of the iPad. Inkling claims to be “the world’s first end-to-end platform for mobile learning content [...] making it easy to bring rich, interactive learning content to tablet devices like iPad”.
It appears to [...]

The long-awaited day has arrived and in about nine hours’ time Steve Jobs will take to the stage in the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco and announce Apple’s “latest creation”. Speculation has been peaking over the past few days and weeks as to what form this creation will take, and I think that there [...]

This past week I've had the privilege of spending six days in Strasbourg in the company of a fantastic group of young people from schools in East Dunbartonshire. The students were taking part in a Euroscola activity, a day of debate and discussion organised by the European Parliament. Throughout the day the students were mixing [...]

Quan vaig començar aquest repte no em vaig adonar que anava a tenir tantes coses que fer. Ha estat una setmana molt carregada i les dues que venen serán encara més carregades. Estem preparant molts materials nous que es llançaran el dia 26 de setembre, i, es clar, hi ha tot el normal també.
Espero [...]

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