I blogged last week about discovering IFTTT and how I’d be using it to help with my Pick of Twitter every week – everything I favourited on Twitter last week automatically got saved to Pocket and tagged with “pick of twitter” so I could easily distinguish Twitter favourites from anything else I’d saved from other sites. Once …
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It’s a very short one this week as I’ve only been near a computer for about three days! I’ll be blogging tomorrow about how I’ve used Pocket and IFTTT to help to compile this week’s Pick – it’s working well so far. Blogs and site links @luby_lou99 tweeted a link to a great blog post from @missradders last …
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I’d put money on the fact that I get asked whether I enjoy teaching by at least four or five pupils every term. I started thinking about this and other related questions when writing my post about my journey into teaching a few days ago. It confuses me that pupils ask this – I wonder if they’re going …
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I know how loser-ish this sounds, but I love stationery. I particularly love picking up bits and pieces for the new academic year – Wilkinson’s is a great place to go for novelty Post-Its and patterned notebooks at a decent price.If I’ve got to mark books, I’ll make sure I do it in a pen …
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As I mentioned in my Pick of Twitter last Sunday, I’ve enjoyed a few stories about people’s reasons for and routes into teaching, so I thought I’d post my own today.I am a first-career teacher; I graduated in July 2009 and by that September I had started my GTP in a local secondary school. Furthermore, …
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Sometimes, you really need a basic practice worksheet – pure and simple, drill and kill, no fuss or problem solving. This might be for a five-minute heads-down skills practice in class, to source questions for a revision lesson, or simply to satisfy the rare pupil who asked where they can go to get extra work. …
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If you’re a regular Twitter user, there’s nothing revolutionary on this list – these are the sites that I check first before scouring the Internet for other problems, and that’s because they’ve usually got something great that requires little adaptation for the classroom. However, if you’re a regular Twitter user but you know colleagues who …
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I’m afraid it’s another quick #summerblogchallenge post today as I’ve been pre-writing a load more meaningful posts for the next few days – I’m disappearing off to a festival this weekend, so will be employing Twuffer for a bit more time-travelling blogging. I spent a bit of time yesterday and today setting up a Facebook page for the Storeroom, …
I’m going again… and Facebook Read More »
A couple of days ago, @mathedup mentioned using IFTTT (If This Then That) for automating post sharing between Twitter and Facebook. I’m not a big user of Facebook for teaching stuff (yet), but was intrigued by the title of the app, so decided to go and have a play, mostly in preparation for setting up my own Facebook page soon. …
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This is the first Sunday I’ve been at my computer since my last Pick of Twitter, so there’s a bit of backdating going on here. Blogs and site links “Why teach?” posts from @mathsjem, @DrBennison and @Craigos87: Well worth a read, and reminded me to finish my own post along these lines! @mathsjem: Jo’s also continuing to post more resources for …
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