Maybe the key to getting a good discussion going on Twitter is picking the right hash tag? Perhaps others are misreading #edread as “e-dread” as Steve Gillott (@stevegillott) so comically put it. #e-dread could be used as a hash tag to describe a student’s feelings about reading or even some teachers’ feelings about teaching! Whether [...]
The #edread discussion continues to blossom and has now (through some pro-activity) begun to bear fruit in school. Not being one to wait for the discussion to have fully formed, I began sharing links and ideas that had been tweeted with my colleagues straight away. I also shared a reading lesson that I had completed spontaneously [...]
Last night I delivered an online presentation to parents of Year 11 English/English Literature students. 50 parents were in the room as well as myself and a colleague from the English department. We had numerous e-mails from parents who wanted to get in to the meeting but couldn’t due to the fact that we were [...]
This week I have learned that keeping a discussion going (even on Twitter) is not always easy, particularly when you are a busy teacher. I must look into “automated reminders / retweeting” – I use “twitterfeed” to link my blog to Twitter. There must be a service that could retweet an individual tweet each day [...]
…below is an e-mail I sent to the rest of the English department yesterday. Having started #edread a little over a week ago and being a little tired after BBC School Report the day before I arrived in school on Friday morning caught between wanting to engage with my Year 8 class (my only KS3 [...]
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