School 2.0 in South Africa

<—Back to main twitter un-workshop page When we participate in our learning community in twitter we become human filters of information for our followers. This makes twitter even more powerful than Google when it comes to disseminating valuable bits of knowledge. Every piece of information that you pass on in a tweet can act as [...]

<—Back to main twitter un-workshop page When you use twitter in the classroom or for an event /conference, you will have to create a hashtag for it. I do not necessarily follow my students by opt rather  to unite our classroom activities around a hashtag. This way I only see their interaction around our classroom activities. Following [...]

<—Back to main twitter un-workshop page One of the most important things you have to do is to create a professional twitter profile if you want to use your twitter for teaching and learning. When you join twitter you are allocated an egghead. I don’t follow eggheads. I follow people who I can learn from [...]

Twitter has great potential as a creative and collaborative learning and teaching tool in the classroom. It has been chosen as the number 1 learling & teacing tool for the last 4 years globally, which shows that it is tool that has to be taken seriously. Some of the reasons for using twitter as a [...]

My topic for the Africa Higher-ed in ICT conference is quite a mouthful and I decided to focus on the how instead of the theory by looking at the following in a practical way: Twitter- A higher order thinking tool to engage and move your students towards innovative learning habits. Twitter View more presentations from [...]

My second workshop at Education week 2010 was of course on twitter and I am glad to report that I have managed to convert some twitter-phobes into realising the tremondous potential it can have in the classroom. I invited my PLN (Personal Learning Network) to join us in sharing the value of twitter and this [...]

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 [...]

Due to the incredible popularity of twitter globally, more guides are being written every day. I have had to update my teacher twitter learning object twice, due to the twitter interface changing. I also have not began to scratch the surface as far as handy twitter applications are concerned, but then I discovered this comprehensive [...]

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.

I am busy putting the finishing touches to my chapter on how social media tools help us to not to only communicate but become lifelong learners, when I was passed (via my twitter network) a link to a new platform that allows you to create blog communities called blog.mu. I went to investigate it as [...]