Twitter really can take up your whole day! It’s a whole continuing professional education all by itself, if you follow the right people and follow up on links to blogs and websites that people point out. So if you want to have a life as well as reading Twitter (let
I’ll definitely follow you on Twitter if… … you catch my attention! There are several ways to increase one’s number of followers on Twitter – it’s been shown for example that a profile picture of a smiling head photo is more likely to attract followers than a depersonalised icon, Twitter
Donald Schön (1983) suggested that the capacity to reflect on action so as to engage in a process of continuous learning was one of the defining characteristics of professional practice. He commented on the “Technical Rationality” type of model of professional training — which involves “charging students up” with knowledge
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Can you help me compile the ultimate list of resources for using blogs in learning and teaching? A while ago I did a bit of a bibliography on the use of wikis in learning and teaching [Blog post August 2007]. Together with some practical action research with the use of
The unprecedented closure of the UK’s airspace today due to an ash cloud drifting over the country from a volcanic eruption in Iceland brought out the best in social media as well as traditional media reporting. Twitter was alive with links and explanations, from elearning companies providing free resources for
The second Media Camp Nottingham on 27th March was at the excellent venue Lace Market House on High Pavement. One might think from the lack of funding and traditional media and other interest in digital and creative industries that there wasn’t much going on in Nottingham. This second event organised
Any Blog Awareness Campaign should have a number of different elements involving attracting visitors with great content, encouraging them to comment, commenting elsewhere yourself, and making relationships throughout the blogosphere. Such a campaign may include: Brilliant and useful content Register blog with search engines such as Yahoo and Google, don’t
What is it? Delicious (http://delicious.com) or del.icio.us is a social bookmarking service that allows users to save their favourite websites as bookmarks and share them with other people. What is Social Bookmarking? Bookmarking is a way of storing and sharing websites that you found useful or interesting. In the past,