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Twitter, Mobile Phones and Mark Pesce

Posted by | Published on June 30, 2019

…in the last six months, a lot of people in Australia have discovered Twitter – particularly those folks who, like myself, are interested in what’s […] 

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In the bag & pocketses #techtools #edutech #mobile

Posted by | Published on September 23, 2016

Thinking back over the last five years about tech tools that have been in my bag or pocket there are some proven stayers and some […] 

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The Professional and the Personal

Posted by | Published on February 14, 2015

Back in 2008, Martin Weller’s video, A Twitter Love Song, captured the potential of social media to be the ‘sweet spot’, a kind of comfortable marriage of […] 

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My tools

Posted by | Published on December 30, 2013

Two years ago I posted about the tech tools I use daily. Many I continue to find essential, others have fallen by the wayside. What follows is a […] 

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myPad

Posted by | Published on March 18, 2012

My 5 and 8 year old daughters have monopolised our iPad since we bought it in 2010. I never really used it that much but […] 

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Staff Development Day – ideas for 1:1 laptop learning

Posted by | Published on January 24, 2012

Colleagues, Your mission today is to spend some time thinking and sharing about learning in your 1:1 laptop classroom. The key issue about learning in a […] 

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Teachers and Social Media

Posted by | Published on November 20, 2011

“If you can’t dance a step, you can’t teach it, and if you can’t teach it – we might as well all pack up and […] 

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Twitter and Edmodo in Denmark

Posted by | Published on September 2, 2011

  You may have read these musings about hashtags and citizenship after the #LondonRiots. This post is a brief reflective piece about a series of […] 

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All I need to know about Twitter I learned at kindergarten

Posted by | Published on August 23, 2011

Thanks to Prof. Steve Wheeler for his post about the ‘art of twitter’ and this slideshare below. All I need to know about Twitter I […] 

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The hashtag and the citizen

Posted by | Published on August 14, 2011

The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a […] 

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