Social networking: The new ‘McGuffin’ in Education?

‘Social networking’ is the latest ubiquitous term in educational usage of ICT; right now to me it feels like it is everywhere. Controversy continues to abound regarding the issue of teachers having personal profiles on websites like Facebook and Twitter. I have very mixed feelings about whether I should make my Twitter profile private – I feel [...]

Twitter and Education

My twitter is here. I’ve briefly talked about twitter before, but those eagle-eyed web-perusers will have noticed that in my left sidebar I have an RSS feed which I’ve named ‘Twitter and Teaching’. I’m still not sure how the heck I’d use twitter in the classroom – the main problem is that the site is, [...]

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