Mark Pentleton

I’ve just spent three days working with inspiring educators from across Europe at the Apple Distinguished Educator Institute, welcoming the “class of 2011″ to the ADE programme. It has been fantastic being surrounded by so many engaging and committed teachers from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. We decided [...]

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 [...]

It’s a couple of weeks since I was in Cheltenham with enthusiastic teachers from up and down the country at the Apple Teacher Institute. As one of the ADEs I was leading workshops on podcasting and using iPod Touches (and iPads!) in the classroom, but one of my first duties at the conference was to [...]

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This afternoon I’m running three workshops at the Apple Leadership Conference at the Cumberland which is running alongside BETT and involves educationalists from Europe, Africa and the Middle East. I’ve been asked to focus on creating resources for the languages classroom, and I’ve created a video version of my presentation. There are a few blips [...]

I’m just back from a great week in Leigh Academy where I was part of a team of Apple Distinguished Educators delivering workshops to the students of the school. It was a fantastic week, although at times the 35°C+ temperatures outside and glass roof in the work areas made the workshops a bit hard-going to [...]