School 2.0 in South Africa

<—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 [...]

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 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 [...]

This is a symposium hosted by SAARSTE at the Marang centre. I always love the offerings of the Centre, it is always worthwhile going (not just for the great food ) MAKING RICH DECISIONS WHEN TEACHING SCIENCE: Is there a magic pill teachers can swallow? Symposium: Friday 4th June 2010, 2.30pm – 5pm Venue: Staff [...]

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 [...]

Blogging is easy, effortless (I lie of course) and fun! So whether you want to create a vibrant space for your school to show the real spirit of learning, or whether you want to post homework for parents to keep track of what their kids are supposed to be doing, or if you just want [...]

I am so glad to report that instead of me nagging teachers to start blogging, I have been getting a lot of requests to run a blogging workshop. So I have decided to run all my essential teacher toolkit tools as learning pathways /un-workshops online (We are all gatvol of workshops- if you want me [...]

Hogsback is a quiant little town up in the Amatola mountains. There you will find forrests, waterfallsand very interesting people (as well as a few hobbits and fairies). Today we are going to do a web 2.0 exploration with a few of the enquiring minds to see how we can make Hogsback truly virtual! Some [...]