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Danny has been delivering CPD to teachers for over 25 years, both at home and overseas. He can offer a range of training sessions tailored to the needs of your staff, both in person and remote. He can also offer science consultancy. Click the link to learn more.
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Latest Blog Posts
Make a Jumping Game in Scratch in About 15 Minutes
A jumping game is one of the most satisfying things a class can build in Scratch. A cat runs along the ground, trees come in from the right, and the player presses the space bar to jump over them. Finished, it looks simple. Getting there means working with...
Build a Simple Collecting Game in Scratch
Scratch sits at the centre of most primary computing schemes, and the blocks themselves are not difficult. The harder part is the distance between reading the unit plan and feeling ready to teach it on Tuesday morning. What usually closes that gap is a worked example...
How to Create and Share a Canva Whiteboard With Your Team (Step by Step)
If you've run a CPD session over Zoom and tried to collect ideas from everyone on the call, you'll know the built-in whiteboard tools are often limited, or missing altogether unless your school pays for the right Zoom plan. This gets harder still when staff are split...
How to Make Interactive Branching Presentations in PowerPoint, Google Slides and Canva
Most presentations work in a straight line. Slide one, slide two, slide three, all the way to the end. That works fine for a lot of lessons, but it's not the only way to do it, and for certain activities it's actually quite limiting. With a bit of setup, you can add...
Google Vids for Teachers: A Practical Guide to Getting Started
If you have ever wanted to make a video for your class but found video editing software too complicated or too time-consuming, Google Vids is worth a look. It sits directly inside Google Workspace for Education, which means if your school already uses Google, you...
Notebook LM slides finally editable with Canva
Google's NotebookLM can produce genuinely impressive slide decks. The design is clean, the layouts are polished, and it pulls together source material in a way that would take a teacher a good chunk of an afternoon to replicate manually. There is, though, one fairly...
Six Claude Features Worth Knowing About (And Actually Using)
Most teachers who've started using Claude are doing something sensible: they type a request, read the response, copy what's useful. That works. But there are a handful of features built into Claude that most people haven't touched yet, and some of them can make a...
Make interactive Maths Games with AI: 4 Prompts To Use
Building resources from scratch takes time we simply do not have. So when there is a way to create interactive, curriculum-linked maths games in minutes, using tools you probably already have access to, it is worth knowing about. This tutorial covers how to use Google...
Your Digital Footprint is Permanent – Here’s What Teachers Need to Know (Webinar)
You probably already know that social media and teaching can be a complicated combination. But knowing it and really thinking through what it means in practice are two different things. This post pulls together some of the most important points from a webinar I run...
EdTech Articles
The Whiteboard Blog contains a wealth of articles and guides to support teachers in the use of Educational Technology. This includes the use of AI in the classroom, useful websites, and tutorials.
Books and Writing
Danny is an experienced author, blogger and course developer whose work spans primary and secondary education. His work includes the award-winning Reach Out CPD, as well as KS3 Science text books for Heinemann and Scholastic.