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…
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So it happened 'like' this. I followed @elearninglaura I saw on her profile she had a blog (good it is too) I saw a post on her blog about a tool for making your own infographics (Piktochart) I thought cool - @fullonlearning (who also has a superb blog) will like that and so…
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Tonight I'm hosting my first #ukedchat session on Twitter. I'm really looking forward to it. There have been changes in the 'lead' over the course of the past week, with Flipped Learning taking an early lead and then 'Secret Spaces' fighting back. The poll had 234 votes and 768 views.…
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Twitter for developing a PLN What is a PLN? Many people describe it as their Personal or Professional Learning Network - certainly for me, joining Twitter has been the single best thing I have ever done in terms of developing myself professionally. My colleagues often comment about how they can't…
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Google Forms as a tool has probably been one of the single most important web based developments to support how I work in the classroom over the last few years. Whilst pretty simple to use, the power of the Google Form is in its flexibility in the many different ways…
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I was lucky to be given the opportunity to provide some training opportunities for staff at the school I work at today on some of the many different amazing tools that are out there for people to use in their lessons to inspire, engage and help focus students on the…
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Check out this 'data confident school toolkit' I found at 4matrix.org The checklist which forms this toolkit lists some of the characteristics associated with the successful use of electronic data to promote school effectiveness. For each statement you are asked to decide the extent of development of current practice towards…
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I made a booklet recently for an INSET session I ran. If you'd like to check it out there are plenty of top sites reviewed and explained in the document. Find it here: http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=50091789&access_key=key-2nnaxu9ba894dn1z8akk&page=1&viewMode=list Note - thanks to @EdintheClouds the above is not downloadable from Scribd but you can get…
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Well, apart from this blog which will be updated regularly with thoughts, ponderings, news and ICT related things, I wanted to introduce you to the marvel that is Twitter. To be fair, most people have heard of Twitter - a way of following your favourite TV celebrity, music artist, politician,…
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