Common wisdom says teens don’t twitter Here’s a few articles saying exactly that (in chronological order 2011 to 2009) http://blog.eloqua.com/why-teens-dont-use-twitter/ http://mashable.com/2010/02/03/teens-dont-tweet-or-blog/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/30/why-dont-teens-tweet-we-asked-over-10000-of-them/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/13/twitter-teenage-media-habits http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/teens-dont-tweet-twitters-growth-not-fueled-by-youth/ While it may be the case that the majority of teens don’t tweet judging by today’s trends on Twitter in the UK they certainly have a strong presence. All the trending […]
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Why Twitter is good for teachers – thanks to…
I did a presentation last week at the World ORT Wingate Seminar which included a 15 minute piece on why Twitter is a great tool for teachers and educators. I’ll add the video and information in a separate post when it is ready. One of the old Twitter tricks to show how Twitter is useful […]
E-tools for education and community building session on Limmud
Last Tuesday I ran a session at Limmud conference on E-tools for education and community building at Limmud Conference UK. As promised I am including links to all the resources discussed here, this post also gives me a chance to thank all the people who helped me put the session together. You can watch the […]
How online communities and social networks helped me
For the last two years I’ve been studying for an MA in ICT in Education at Leeds University. The last piece of the puzzle my MA Critical Study (a 15,000 word research project) went in the post last week and the process has come to an end. Looking back the whole MA was proof of […]