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 […]
Ten things… #1 – Twitter
This is the first of ten posts, building on my list of ten things I learned from rebooting my teaching that I presented at Teachmeet Clevedon. You can actually find a much better explanation of why you should bother with Twitter in this 5 minute talk from David Gale from the Teachmeet! —- Issac Newton […]
Tweeting Historical Events
I watched with interest the twitter stream coming from @titanicrealtime– especially their use of hashtags to try and get a sense of the various perspectives of different people involved in the sailing and the accident. This follows the innovative use of Twitter by the National Archives using the cabinet papers to tweet as the UK cabinet during WW2 […]
“Tell me how, Dave” or ‘Some thoughts on a future National Curriculum for Wales’ (!)
I was lucky enough to attend the excellent and thought provoking “ICT for Education” conference on Friday, followed by another inspirational Teachmeet. The following day I was pondering a lot of what I’d seen and the following thought crossed my mind. When I logged on to Twitter tonight I couldn’t work out why this comment […]
Why History teachers should join Twitter, and how to go about it!
This is another post that’s been sitting in draft form for weeks. I started it after I demoed Twitter to my old PGCE tutor, and thought a post online where I could direct history teachers new to Twitter would be a useful thing to have… When I started as a History teacher I was lucky […]
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I’m in the process of putting two new blogs together for school to drip feed out teaching ideas, one a week. The first of these will be on using ICT (the first article will go live tomorrow and I’ll put a link in then),and the second will be on ‘SMART’ learning (come back on Thursday […]