Duplicating the “Twitter experience” in our schools!

As often happens when reading the post of another, I found myself considering, thinking, reflecting and inevitably weighing up the pros and cons of arguments being presented. The post “What if school was more like Twitter?” by ASCD Edge: A professional networking community for Educators, presents an interesting discussion on the value of Twitter to [...]

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Vindicating the valuable role of Teacher Librarians!

WOW!  How amazing is this!! Just yesterday, I happened to glance at the site stats for this blog.   As fascinating as it is to read the various tables and listing on my WordPress Dashboard, I admit that I only very rarely spend time looking at these details.  But yesterday, lo and behold, I found a [...]

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Twitter Topic Explorer: A great data visualization tool!

One of the first things I do when trying to decide if I want to follow someone on Twitter is to look at their recent tweets to see if the topics tweeted about are of interest to me.   When using TweetDeck, the tool I’m currently using to manage my Twitter account, I’m often conscious of [...]

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TweetingSeat

When I first read about TweetingSeat in an email sent to me, I thought maybe someone was playing a joke on me. They weren’t and TweetingSeat really does exist! Designed by Christopher McNicholl, who describes himself as a young and insightful designer, with great enthusiasm for creating exciting, yet practical products, he is originally from [...]

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The Power of Twitter!

It looks fairly simple: a plea by someone and then a reply by another: Thu 03 Feb 13:53 – Help librarians. I need to put together a 50 minute session for Year 12 IB students on Internet, research and study skills. #vicpln #edtech Thu 03 Feb 14:20 – @megsamanda Start local, go global. So school [...]

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For peace of mind, backup your blog!

I know I’m repeating myself here, but Twitter really is wonderful! The little bits and pieces of valuable information shared is just invaluable. It was a while ago that I freaked out about ‘what if I lost all the info I’ve put into my blog’ and found out how to take a back up. That [...]

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Life is about change – accept it and enjoy!

It took me a while to catch up with the kids, but I finally did!   The mobile phone is now part of my persona. I remember though, seemingly not all that long ago, thinking deeply about the impact of the mobile phone.  I’m not sure about you, but for me it was a worry.   [...]

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Twittering to my heart’s content!

It took three attempts, but I’m there!  I’ve now happily taken up my place in the Twitterverse and am truly enjoying the power and vibrancy of this kind of communication. Some of you will remember that I was literally dragging my feet on Twitter.   I kind of glossed over it back in mid May when [...]

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Week 4: Busy weekend!

Hours seemed to have slipped past as I’ve explored bits and pieces. Mostly I have been ‘looking’ around the web and focusing on some of the tools to which we are being exposed.  Like others I’ve found Wallwisher fun and engaging and Essay Map has to be a MUST tool for both teachers and students.  [...]

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