Twitter

I have been investigating Twitter of late, and the further I delve and explore twitter, the more interesting it gets. I have found some great people/associations to follow and I have stumbled across some interesting conversations. In order to get the most out of twitter, I have had to continue my e-learning journey which, without the help I have found online would have hit many a dead-end. ShellTerrell has posted information on her blog, teacher boot camp for digital immigrants like me, on how to  access and join in the #edtech conversations which are held on a weekly basis on twitter and are contributed to by a myriad of educators.
During my exploration I came across TigerPhysics, which is a twitter id of Kevin McChesney, used solely to keep in contact with his students. I think this is a great example of technology in use and, the students have access 24/7 to reminders about papers that are due and when tests and exams are to be held.
Must now return to  my reading of Shell Terrell's tips!
I must say that this twitter fixation began due to this blog post by Bright ideas, thank you for extending my PLN SLAV
Just as I've posted this I found a great blog post on using twitter for education through adding an #edtech column to my Tweetdeck, this post by Steve Wheeler is worth your time.

How not to engage students

I found this picture at 21C learning blog with the heading...

Would you be game to put this sign over the photocopier?

December 10, 2009

Too true, lets try a constructivist approach instead.

Teaching and learning algebra using web 2.0

Teaching and Learning Algebra 1 using Web 2.0 -
A few links in here that I would like to keep and possibly use later on. I found this slide show through the delicious bookmarking site

What is literacy today?

Another great post from Scott McLeod's blog, Dangerously Irrelevant, on literacy today.

School is no longer constrained to how far the bus can travel in the morning.

I found this on  Scott McLeod's blog Dangerously Irrelevant, it is so true.... 

I love this slide (courtesy of Dean Shareski and John Pederson). Click on the image for a larger version.

Photo credit: The School Bus

Still learning

Since I started the e-learning course at uni I have been finding blogs that I like to read and I am garnishing some great information from them.
I have been inspired by Jeff Utech to set up a facebook page for fans, here is Jeff's. Sounded bloated to me, but basically it is a page for a public profile. This keeps my private life private, and when I am a teacher, if a student wants to friend me I can explain that I reserve friends for family, however I have this other page.
There has been a lot written about student/teacher relationships on social media sites, and then some more. This is a good post about how to handle social media when students are involved. And so today I have been setting up my new page, my sister was my first fan- isn't that nice- and attempting to link my twitter account with my facebook page and my blog with facebook and...I think I need a diagram! I am getting linked (and no I'm not even going to look at that site!) in my web2.0 world, oh yeah, how could I forget? I accomplished my first status update via mobile phone. Not a big accomplishment for some, and I'll probably cringe at some stage in the future, if I re-read this post, at how easily I am excited by small accomplishments.
Each step takes me further down the road, but there is no end in sight as technology keeps advancing...BRING IT ON.

Digital Pens 2

Here is a funny video for digital pens. I ended up getting an IntelliPen which is just great. I came across this video through the Education.au blog

Did you know

I found this while reading through Scott MacLeods blog, Dangerously Irrelevant and I thought that I would post it here so I don't lose it! Enjoy.

Re The speed of life

The address where I got the below app is on the bottom of the app if you are interested and, you can find the embed code on that page.

This is a simple app yet it shows so clearly how the digital generation are spending their time!

Ahem, I guess that now includes me as an addicted digital immigrant!

Okay I'm back to the books....

The speed of life