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 [...]
I’m not in a position to reflect properly on this year’s BETT having been either on my own stand or in meetings related to work or Naace. In many ways I’m glad I was not a visitor trying to find the latest and most interesting new development for 2008, as planning a visit becomes an [...]
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 was in October that the free Elgg based site Eduspaces was relaunched as the “the world’s largest social network for education and educational technology“, but it would seem that the service will cease to exist from January 10th 2008. No reason if given, but one can presume that finance is the issue. Eduspaces is [...]
You may have noticed a dirth of blog posts recently, but I’ve been so busy of late that finding time to blog my thoughts and reflections has been increasingly difficult. Time became even more precious almost a week ago when I became Chair of Naace, the professional association for educational professionals here in the UK, [...]
Thanks to Allanah King, whose video I blogged on in my last post, for drawing my attention to the NoTime4Online Conference in New Zealand. I dropped in, and what a great example of teachers online InSET! Apart from Allanah’s great presentation, the other highlight for me is Donna Dyet’s work at Te Awamutu Intermediate School. [...]
Teachertube is starting to come of age. In the past, if you wanted to find out what teachers in other classrooms were doing, and how they succeeded, then you might have attended a conference, or read a case study in a journal, but now enthusiastic teachers willing to share what they’ve learnt from others, adapted, [...]
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