DfE & Facebook

Apr 19, 2012 by Mark Anderson    No Comments    Posted under: CPD, Everything ICT, Infographics, Learning & Teaching

This post is really an update following my recent posts about Twitter and the ideas gained through sharing my tweets with others.

For a much longer write up, this post by Jon Tait inspects the experience in more detail really well here: http://www.woodham.org.uk/edutait/

The original post has had more than 1000 unique visits and my tweet was retweeted more than 50 times with a reach of 28,138 Twitter users in the course of 1 week.

To top it all off, yesterday, the DfE picked up on it and then posted about it on their Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/educationgovuk

It’s just phenomenal when you think about it – what power educators really can have when they collaborate, communicate and work effectively using modern day technology tools.

Teachers use Twitter as their preferred CPD tool

Apr 15, 2012 by Mark Anderson    No Comments    Posted under: Everything ICT, Infographics, Learning & Teaching

Inspired by my previous post about collaboration across Twitter, Jon (@TeamTait) Tait has been busy again with a new infographic on the topic:

Make your own infographics for free

Apr 13, 2012 by Mark Anderson    No Comments    Posted under: Cool sites

Thanks to the wonderful blog of Laura Knight (@elearninglaura) http://www.elearninglaura.net/ I stumbled across the brilliant tool – PiktoChart where you can easily make your own cool infographics.

The best thing is that you can create some cool infographics in the easy to use UI really easily and for free. Okay, for some of the cooler features you have to pay for a bit extra, but hey – the free version is cool nonetheless. I can see this being used in lots of subjects, particularly when working with statistics and demonstrating them in fun and interesting ways. Maths, Geography, Business Studies, Drama, Music….. the list goes on.

Give it a go!