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Apr 11 2021

Lots going on to share at ICT Evangelist

By Mark Anderson CPD, Distance Learning, Food for thought, Learning, Learning, Positivity, Remote Learning, Social Media, Twitter 3 Comments

Sometimes, just changing how you do things can really help you move forward. You’ll have no doubt noticed that I haven’t posted a blog for ages. And you know what? It wasn’t just me being lazy, honest! I’ve actually been working on writing my new book, which I’m already excited…

Jun 13 2020

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Different ways (and how) to use Twitter’s new scheduling tool

By Mark Anderson CPD, EdTech, Resources, Tutorial, Work with me No Comments

Lots of schools use Twitter to share what they are doing, from sharing the fabric of school life and the day to day activities to professional learning opportunities from the school, its teachers sharing the great work of their learners - there are so many ways that schools use the…

Jan 28 2018

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Bye bye Storify, hello Twitter Moments!

By Mark Anderson CPD, EdTech, educators, Social Media No Comments

So if you haven't noticed, Storify is shutting up shop and is now no longer accepting new users with the platform being closed down in May this year. It's quite disappointing when this sort of thing happens. I was gutted when my initial blogging platform, 'Posterous' shut down all those…

Sep 08 2017

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The Periodic Table of Teachers to Follow on Twitter

By Mark Anderson Pedagogy first, Resources, Social Media, Twitter No Comments

Twitter for professional development It's really interesting seeing the number of schools that are purposefully working to help teachers learn how to capitalise on the ways in which Twitter can be used for professional development. I am a huge champion of Twitter for CPD and I have run many sessions…

Jun 21 2017

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Have a break… have a Twitter break

By Mark Anderson Food for thought No Comments

It's that time of year again where being a teacher is probably more stressful than ever. Teachers are worrying about how their classes will be getting on with their exams or phonics tests and classrooms are hotter than ever. There has been talk on Twitter today about an article on…

Jun 11 2017

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50 popular hashtags to help develop your professional learning

By Mark Anderson CPD, Social Media, T & L, Twitter No Comments

What is a hashtag? Hashtags for the uninitiated are those words you see sometimes with the # symbol in front of them. Many of my UK readers will have seen the #GE2017 hashtag these past few weeks on Twitter. Most people tweeting or posting on Instagram and other social media about…

Feb 15 2016

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Beginner’s Guide to Twitter (the crib sheet)

By Mark Anderson Twitter 6 Comments

I wrote quite a long, detailed guide to Twitter for teachers back in April last year. It proved really popular, but it wasn't really staffroom fodder and didn't really fit onto a presentation slide either. With that in mind, I created a crib sheet version. I haven't included one of…