School 2.0 in South Africa

I had the amazing experience this weekend to meet up, for the first time face 2 face,  with one of my foremost gurus and mentors, Bronwyn Stuckey (@bronst).  Up to now, she has just been this person, far away, yet close, who helps me when I am stuck, points me in the right direction when [...]

I was pointed to this great little twitter visualisation tool that creates a photo mosaic of your twitter network by alanmills405. I have created one of the wonderful people, news feeds, teachers, librarians, mathematicians, social media experts, weather reports…… Get your twitter mosaic here.

A lot of us have the problem that most web 2.0 tools, that can assist in learning and teaching, are blocked by our school/departmental firewalls. In the proccess of keeping systems safe, a lot of good learning is also being blocked in the process! So, we have started a debate on our wiki at http://saschools.wetpaint.com [...]