CPD and Twitter

This week I delivered training on Internet Safety and wasn’t sure how to make it interesting! While playing around on Twitter, however, I noticed an entry by Neil Winton linking to this great resource.

Thanks Neil 🙂

I also caught site of Tom Barratt’s link to a slideshare presentation that gave (what I think anyway) a powerful message:

 

Digital Reputation

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: groom dean)

 

The quote by Will Richardson on slide 16 led me to talk about the importance of giving primary school age children their own online space in the form of a blog or wiki so that they can learn how to ‘act and present themselves’ in an safe manner when they ‘branch out’ and create their own personal space on bebo, Facebook etc. Early years teachers can begin by allowing them to post on a class blog.

….But what about direct benefits to learning and teaching? Writing this post led me to reflect on a section of the findings of my Chartered Teacher dissertation. I wrote:

” Taking part in this case study has given me an opportunity to reflect on my own teaching. Some of the findings from the research were unexpected. I set out to investigate if the strategies I had put in place would lead to the creation of an online learning community. I was not prepared for the effect this would have on the offline environment of the classroom and for the changes to the content and delivery of the curriculum. Giving the children the freedom to use their online spaces as they wished allowed a deeper insight to their persona. An online community did develop, but that was on the periphery. The sharing of thoughts, opinions, ideas and personal likes and dislikes began as online blog posts. These were then developed in the offline classroom setting, giving rise to opportunities to increase motivation by modifying the programme of study to one that was more ‘child led’.”

 

 

GLOW and Twitter 

 

 

 

This week, I met up with Katie Barrowman, Jaye Richards and Sinclair McKenzie on GLOW messenger because of incidental comments left on Twitter. This impromptu meeting also led to me taking part in my first GLOW video conference session, and I have to admit that it was good fun and Katie was able to talk me through some of the applications available (saved me reading through the instructions!) We even tried out GLOW chat – and it worked well, too. On GLOW so far I’ve embedded a voki, uploaded a document and an mp3 file … I’ve even set up my own GLOW group! I’m beginning to see the potential 🙂
I wonder what tips I’ll pick up from Twitter this week 🙂      

 

 

 

 

 

2 thoughts on “CPD and Twitter

  1. Hello Marc! It’s great to see you’ve found some time to start blogging again ?

    I’m enjoying my new job, although it’s strange not being ruled by the bell ….. and I miss the children!

    I’ll try to get tickets for your show. I looked it up on the website and it seems to be on for a while.

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