Category Archives: social media

Embedding 21st Century technologies presentation

A short interview with me, and some of my class’ work have been used in this presentation by Neil Hopkin at the National College, and on the Manchester University PGCE course.
It’s great to see that some PGCE students are being encouraged to use web based tools. During my own training only last year ICT [...]

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BETT & TeachMeet: Ideas not kit

BETT
I am just returning from a day at the BETT show and reflecting on a day of contrasts. I went to BETT last year as a student and found it a really valuable way to get an overview of the state of the field in educational technology.
This year I found it much less worthwhile. Everything [...]

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Using twitter on a school trip

I always think one of the most powerful uses of the social media that has grown around twitter is for reporting and reflecting on live events on location.  Some time ago a friend and I experimented with some ideas for a club night based around social media and, although we eventually shelved it, it made [...]

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1:1- Using twitter to get a young class to the right resources

One of the fundamental issues in a 1:1 primary classroom is getting the children to the websites they are meant to be using as quickly and painlessly as possible. In a conventional classroom you can just hand out copies of worksheets and resources to different groups, but when working with web based tools this is [...]

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