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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
How to Convert Publisher Files to PDF (for FREE) and Edit in Canva
If you have years of newsletters, certificates and worksheets saved in Microsoft Publisher, you can convert Publisher files to PDF without having Publisher installed. Once you have the PDF, you can upload it to Canva and edit it as a normal Canva design, so the file...
How to Make a Rock Paper Scissors Game in Scratch
This tutorial shows you how to make a rock paper scissors game in Scratch, with a player who chooses using the keyboard, a computer opponent that picks at random, and a judge that announces the result. By the end you'll have a working two-sprite game that uses...
Writing a AI Policy for Primary Schools: A Practical Guide
Around half of schools in England still don't have a formal AI policy in place and if you work in primary, a primary school AI policy may well be further down the list than that. Most schools are in exactly the same position, so this isn't about feeling behind. AI is...
How to merge shapes in PowerPoint
Every teacher who builds slides has hit the same problem. You need a particular shape or piece of clip art, and it isn’t there. As a science teacher, the one I want most often is a thermometer, and PowerPoint doesn’t have one. You can spend ten minutes searching for...
How to Open Publisher Files Now Microsoft Publisher Has Been Retired
Most of us have a folder somewhere full of Publisher files. Worksheets, word mats, certificates, class newsletters, display labels, and the sports day programme someone made years ago that everyone has been updating ever since. Publisher was installed on almost every...
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...
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.