Derek Mooney and his team of Showbie aces have clearly demonstrated how to use Showbie well with the pupils.  They have provided a range of great tips here but have also provided some brilliant examples :-)

One really good way to place an announcement for staff; form classes ; Year groups or the whole school is through the MySpace website which should be your opening web browser. 
This is very easy to do and can get across to your audience key information in a quick bulletin entry. Follow the easy steps below:

It is getting to that time of year again when you are putting your pupils through their paces with exam timing a key priority.  This great little selection of PowerPoint timers from www.a6training.co.uk are fab.  You can choose the time you want and cut and paste them into your Presentation! CLICK ONE OF THE PICTURES BELOW TO DOWNLOAD

Thanks to Ian McCaugherty and Dave Ewart for sharing

This is a brilliant website called edtechteacher.org.  It was found by Jayne Atkinson.  It is designed specifically around using iPads in schools and has lots of app recommendations for a huge variety of tasks as well as recommending lesson ideas - Full of inspiration!!  Check it out by clicking on the picture or following this link:  http://edtechteacher.org/apps#Begin 
Thanks Jayne

Sending and receiving emails to large groups of people instead of the specific groups you need can be frustrating.  In order to make it easy for you to send your emails directly to the people required this post explains how to set up your own dedicated email group or groups to make it much easier in future to target certain key people. 

Office 365 is the range of high quality Microsoft apps that we are all used too... and others in the family which you may not have heard of!  This handy online training course allows you to teach yourself the basics of a wide range of these apps allowing you to get a handle on things in your own time and at your own pace.

This is a great discovery by David Ewart. It is a really handy poster designed by Allan Carrington running through possible uses of the iPads based on the Blooms principles. Click to download

This is one of the most commonly asked questions at this time of year. Now that you all have your class lists this is a run through of how to send them through to iDoceo from SIMS. There are new ways to save the files on to Google Drive but I will cover that later. There are a few steps in  this but I guarantee once you do one class it will be easy! 

This is quite a commonly asked question.  You may have your new timetable all put in and nicely colour coded BUT it doesn't replicate into the rest of the year! Don't worry there are just a few simple steps to sort this out. 

If you have classes in your iDoceo which you are not teaching this year but you want to save details and marks - simply follow these simple steps to 'hide' them. This will keep them on your system but neatly tucked away so as not to interfere with your current years groups

You may have a class that you have carried on from last year. Instead of having to put the class details in laboriously again .. simply follow these steps to copy.

The snipping tool is an excellent way to cut out or cut around digital images so you can use them in imaginative teaching ways.  You could cut out one section of a photo for example or cut out a Source for Geography, History or English. It is very easy to do and is free on your PC's