Inspirational Pictures

I have talked about using lists before to help manage people on Twitter but this post is about a new list I have created. There are many picture-based accounts on Twitter including @fascinatingpics and my most recent find, @abandonedpic which shows pictures of places...

Twitter Lists

I have been using Twitter for ages now (a good few years) and I have never got around to sorting out my lists until recently because of time. I would imagine that many others are in a similar boat, only because when I tweeted about lists, a few others asked for more...

Class 8 will be tweeting

Following on from Simon McCloughlin’s (@simcloughlin) plea on his blog, I have decided to do the same on here. As of this week I will be back in the classroom with my own class following two years covering PPA across the school. One of the (many) things that I...

Twitter Literacy (Twitteracy?)

Today I tried another Twitter lesson (here was another attempt). As PPA teacher I often don’t find out what I’m doing until the day before and this was no exception. As part of the literacy in Year 3-4 they were looking at writing newspaper reports based...

A lesson on Twitter

One thing that sometimes happens as PPA teacher is that I have to teach the same lesson twice to two different classes. This isn’t a bad thing as it means I can try different things and achieve different outcomes because the children are different. For...