A recent survey by the National Literacy Trust found students that blogged and maintaining profiles on Facebook and other social networking sites were more likely to enjoy writing and believe they were good at it. The online survey involved 3,001 pupils aged 9-16 from England and Scotland.
The survey reports that 79% of young [...]
I’m increasingly becoming affected by Twitter these days. With tools like Friendbar and using Flock as my browser (and there are so many other tools, any yet more!), I’m constantly getting tweets from educators and friends as long as I’m on the internet. Receiving tweets via my mobile phone is a place where I don’t [...]
It’s interesting to compare and contrast Bill Thompson’s latest article with Phil Beale’s view of the world which I blogged on recently. Bill, apart from being a regular technology columnist for the BBC, also teaches a journalism course at City University. In it he says of his students:
“They also seem to have realised that anyone [...]
Will’s latest post asks the question, “what future conference organizer is gonna get smart and only allow attendees who …” (engage with Web 2.0 technologies) ? An interesting question for me with only four days to go to the Naace Strategic Conference.
Since 2006 I’ve take on the task of integrating web 2.0 technologies into Naace [...]
Bill Lamin, a Maths and ICT teacher in Cornwall decided back in July 2006 to use his grandfathers’ World War One diary to create a blog. The uniqueness of his blog comes with the way in which he has decided to present the entries. Bill explains:
The intention of this blog is to publish the letters [...]
It’s been one year since this blog started! Here are my personal highlights from the last year:
Stop the excuses: Children’s ICT Charter
Why my daughter doesn’t blog anymore
Never mind the “alternative viewâ€, where’s the debate?
The ‘John Clare’ interactive whiteboard
12 software titles that changed education – well maybe …
Teachers as ‘deliverers’ – research backs it up, but [...]
Following my previous post regarding being blog-tagged by Theo, as promised, here are five things you may not know about me:
1) I was often confused for the Welsh Outside Half
During the late 1970s, while at university, I was often confused for Gareth Davies the Welsh Rugby player. There were some similarities other than our names, [...]
I was feeling a bit out of it … bloggers I was reading were all taking part in the blog-tag game, and no one had tagged me yet. Self doubt was creeping in, perhaps no-one was reading this blog, or at least finding it at all interesting? But today I discovered that Theo had tagged [...]
Gartner’s the analyst and consultant firm has made 10 predictions for 2007, although some of them stretch beyond that. Among them is the prediction that blogging will peak in 2007. According to the BBC News site:
” … during the middle of next year the number of blogs will level out at about 100 million. The [...]
Today is “One day in History” day, a project run by a number of History Partners, to allow ordinary people to record what they did on October 17th, 2006. The ‘archive’ of their journals will be preserved for posterity in the British Library. The day had received a reasonable amount of publicity including this report [...]
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