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- #welcomewednesday
Helping Hand - by leodelrosa on FlickrOn a recent post about what a PLN means to me I mentioned my idea of Welcome Wednesday, a hashtag for twitter (#WW) which more experienced twitter users could be used to give a welcome to new teachers on the platform....
- Over A Year Since My First Blog Post!
One year on How time flies?! I've only just realised that it is now more than 12 months since this humble blog was launched with this post. The original purpose of the blog was to reflect on the process of initiating my first class blogging project...
- How Do You Manage Your Time Online?
I received last Friday, multiple times, an invitation to do some blog reading homework at the weekend, an idea suggested by livesofteachers. Now I like reading blogs and I like Darren's blog but one thing I won't do (I realise I have a free choice...
- My List Of Ten Blogs
Ok, this is my ten blogs thing, I was tagged my @martulmj and @livesofteachers, who both have interesting blogs that I like. It's quite hard to get a new slant on it though, because lots of choices have been used up already and I don't want to...
- The Power Of A Blog
I have enjoyed the last week massively. I've had a huge 'lift-off' moment, I suppose, with regards to my online presence. I was moved to write my previous post by a comment on the notorious TurkishTefl blog and suddenly found myself being...
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Give me more twitter!
Throughout my Easter break and just after, I felt like I'd had enough of twitter. After barely accessing it for a couple of weeks I decided to get back in and be more sociable. I had a great holiday though! Here I am on a beach in Huelva.
As a result I've got more followers and have chatted with more people and suddenly it feels more interesting. So I'm pleased I didn't give up on it, though I am trying not to go online late in the evening after classes, because I can't sleep after spending time on the computer!
I also started this blog a couple of months back and haven't advertised it at all, keeping it self-consciously secretive. So, unsurprisingly I haven't really received any comments. Well, now I've decided to advertise the blog and my posts on twitter. I'm also going to try to blog more regularly, even if it's just a few quick comments or something I've used in class. I've noticed that there can be quite a difference between blogs; some are short but still generate comments due to the blogger being so sociable. Others are longer and extremely well written ? like Mark Andrews, for example, who's blog is full of wonderfully readable feature length articles. I don't feel like I have the time to construct long articles, so I'm just going to post some things that I happen to be thinking about.
Mark posted an idea for using a poem by Benjamin Zephaniah recently, which I asked him about on twitter and he helped me with a couple of ideas. This is one way in which a PLN can really help!
- #welcomewednesday
Helping Hand - by leodelrosa on FlickrOn a recent post about what a PLN means to me I mentioned my idea of Welcome Wednesday, a hashtag for twitter (#WW) which more experienced twitter users could be used to give a welcome to new teachers on the platform....
- Over A Year Since My First Blog Post!
One year on How time flies?! I've only just realised that it is now more than 12 months since this humble blog was launched with this post. The original purpose of the blog was to reflect on the process of initiating my first class blogging project...
- How Do You Manage Your Time Online?
I received last Friday, multiple times, an invitation to do some blog reading homework at the weekend, an idea suggested by livesofteachers. Now I like reading blogs and I like Darren's blog but one thing I won't do (I realise I have a free choice...
- My List Of Ten Blogs
Ok, this is my ten blogs thing, I was tagged my @martulmj and @livesofteachers, who both have interesting blogs that I like. It's quite hard to get a new slant on it though, because lots of choices have been used up already and I don't want to...
- The Power Of A Blog
I have enjoyed the last week massively. I've had a huge 'lift-off' moment, I suppose, with regards to my online presence. I was moved to write my previous post by a comment on the notorious TurkishTefl blog and suddenly found myself being...