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Getting Nominated (the easy bit)
Several posts should be arriving soon, including a summary of the recent #SciTeachJC, a quick guide to quick use of the 5/7Es when writing a lesson plan or a scheme of work, and ‘my fortnight on twitter’. This is a really quick one and is basically about me being selfish. This site has been nominated [...]
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Tags: award, blogging
Life Online
I’m finding it harder and harder to keep track of things online. At the time of writing/typing, I’m running six email accounts, two blogs (this one and the ‘in-progress’ studenttoolkit.co.uk, two twitter accounts and one facebook page. That’s crazy. To try and keep myself organised, I’m experimenting with several tools. The hard bit is making [...]
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Tags: Blog, Evernote, Social Networking, twitter
Bah Humbug
Even in my secret identity as mild-mannered reporter teacher I’m not a huge Christmas fan. I mean, I understand the ideas and all, both those based around the solstice and the way the traditions have been pinched more recently by the Christians, but I just don’t like it much. (For those of a Christian tradition, [...]
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Tags: Christmas, Santa Claus
It was probably from Alom Shaha that I first ‘heard’ the term virtual staffroom to encompass the ways in which Twitter and blogging can help teachers improve their professional practice. I’m not the only person who likes the concept, and there’s some excellent discussion elsewhere about the benefits it can offer. I’ve mentioned some of [...]
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Tags: Alom Shaha, Blog, blogging, teaching, twitter, Wordpress
Being a #teacherontwitter
This will be a very quick post (as it’s late and I’m hungry) inspired by this article in the San Francisco Chronicle. It’s occured to me before that although there are guidelines for teachers on Facebook, there’s not the same kind of emphasis on Twitter. Here, then, are the rules I follow when I tweet [...]
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Tags: Follower, Online Communities, Student, twitter
The Dog Ate My Blogpost
It’s been a busy week… umm, month. I was ill. I had lots of other things to do. All true. But the end result is still it’s been more than a month since I posted, which is pretty shocking. I suspect colleagues will appreciate my situation when I mention module exams, reports, parents’ evenings and [...]
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This is a follow-up to my post in December about Memory4Teachers. Most of the important stuff will be repeated but feel free to check it out – for reasons that will become obvious, I’m making this a separate post rather than updating the old one. Context I signed up for a free memory stick over [...]
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Tags: Memory Stick, USB flash drive
Summer Holiday
I have to admit, I feel a little guilty. With all the usual end-of-term rush, I hadn’t managed to post in several weeks. Now it’s the summer, I’ve taken a few days to try not to do anything even vaguely related to teaching. So no blog posts. And tomorrow, I’m off on holiday so won’t [...]
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Tags: blognews, comedy, web
Doing This All Wrong?
According to this comic from xkcd, I just might be: Let me know if you think I’m building a good relationship with you, the readers, in the comments below. And if you don’t already know it, I strongly recommend xkcd generally for thrice weekly comics. And even as occasional starters (correlation in particular.
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Updates on Teaching of Science
Not everything on this blog is about the posts; I’m also using WordPress as a webhosting service. The problem is that these bits and pieces aren’t visible unless you go looking for them, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to flag them up. I’ve tidied up and rearranged some of the links on the [...]
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Tags: blognews, students
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