I received an email today from Sarah Grier at FutureLab to inform me that my blog has been selected to feature on Education Eye. In her words: “Education Eye is a free resource for the education community, pulling together a wide range of relevant and useful innovations selected from the best of the web and [...]
“Vale a pena ficar de olho nesse blog!” or to those of us who speak English: “It’s worth taking a look at this blog!” Thank you to Jan Webb for including me in her list of 10 blogs that are worth taking a look at. If you are included below and wish to take part [...]
Maybe the key to getting a good discussion going on Twitter is picking the right hash tag? Perhaps others are misreading #edread as “e-dread” as Steve Gillott (@stevegillott) so comically put it. #e-dread could be used as a hash tag to describe a student’s feelings about reading or even some teachers’ feelings about teaching! Whether [...]
The #edread discussion continues to blossom and has now (through some pro-activity) begun to bear fruit in school. Not being one to wait for the discussion to have fully formed, I began sharing links and ideas that had been tweeted with my colleagues straight away. I also shared a reading lesson that I had completed spontaneously [...]
This week I have learned that keeping a discussion going (even on Twitter) is not always easy, particularly when you are a busy teacher. I must look into “automated reminders / retweeting” – I use “twitterfeed” to link my blog to Twitter. There must be a service that could retweet an individual tweet each day [...]
