Image credit: “staff room communication” from Gary Stager by Robin Hutton. CC Licensed via Flickr You can find this post again at http://is.gd/tmswands I’m off to do 2 minutes at a Swansea Teachmeet tonight about using Twitter and blogs as a global extended staffroom, so I thought I’d pull everything together here as a […]
#28daysofwriting day 3 – I may not know much, but I know what I like
So it’s looking increasingly like this is going to be an end of the day thing. I think I can live with that. I’ve been blogging in various shapes or forms for ten year now, and as I was clicking through to some of the other blog posts being written as part of #28daysofwriting, I […]
Keeping up to date with more than 140 characters – The joy of RSS
In my last post I mentioned that I’d got my RSS reader down to 0 and I thought it might be useful to share what I meant by that. Many of you will understand the idea of Twitter – you ‘follow’ those people whose updates you want and they are pulled together into one central place. […]
ten things… #3 Write blogs
It’s never been easier to start your own blog, with a range of free tools out there. Blogger still seems to be a popular one, as is posterous which has the advantage of allowing you to blog by email. I use WordPress as a blogging platform, which has a few more bells and whistles than […]
Ten things… #2 – Read blogs
Back in the old days (you know, before Twitter) I read blogs from teachers around the world to get ideas. I suspect this is the fault of Doug Belshaw who I ‘knew’ through the school history.co.uk teachers forum. He started blogging, I started reading. He blogged about other people, so I started reading their blogs […]
Blogs I read – updated
Earlier I saw this tweet from John Putt Educator blogs delicious.com/stacks/view/SH… via @delicious Looking to crowd source this & grow it somewhat. Please contribute. — John (@wjputt) April 3, 2012 I thought it was about time I provided an updated list of the the RSS feeds I subscribe to. I use Google Reader to […]
Mark all as read. Except…
As I mentioned the other day, I’d abandoned my feed reader to the marking mountain for a few weeks, so was forced to hit ‘mark all as read’ to real with the 1000+ posts waiting for me. But there’s a few blogs I did check before I nuked the rest, so I thought it might be worth […]
Weekly tips
From the ‘finally got round to it’ category comes this idea which has been on the cards since about this time last year in one form or another… As part of my job as SMART coordinator I need to keep staff up to speed on some of the activities we’re doing with year 7 to […]