Reposted a tweet by Henry Hepburn (Twitter)

If you had another job before going into teaching, what was it?

Missed this when it came out, fascinating replies and somehow reassuring.

 

 

Liked a tweet by Juliet Robertson (Twitter)

15+ alternatives to using laminates outside https://bit.ly/36H66ht Always on the look out for good ideas here. #EYShare #EYMatters, #EYTwittertagteam, #EYFS, #EarlyYears, #TeamEarlyChildhood #EYBLUK#edutwitter #EYMaths #continuousprovision #eyideas

15+ Alternatives to Using Laminated Sheets Outside

Replied to Parasocial relationships through digital media by Doug BelshawDoug Belshaw (Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel)
I think we've all felt a close affinity and, dare I say, relationship with people who wouldn't know who we were if we met them in real life. In fact, I've kind of experienced the other side of this due to my TEDx Talk and the TIDE podcast. People at events would come and talk to me as if they knew m

On the other end, this makes me feel a bit uncomfortable listening to some podcasts. I used to listen to quite a few popular mac/tech podcasts, but the feeling that I knew these folk was somehow quite unpleasant. 1. I don’t & 2. I live in a very different world. They are often over long with a lot of friendly, between presenters, chat. I now keep an eye and dip in occasionally when the topic looks good thank to Castro’s triage.

Tide, I very much enjoyed because I had met irl Doug and virtually Dai. My own broadcasting/podcasting efforts  were mostly aimed at folk just like me. I’d guess I knew many of our audience.

Replied to a tweet by Blair Minchin (Twitter)

The response to this has been very interesting.

Has teacherinstagram become more useful than #edutwitter ? https://twitter.com/mr_minchin/status/1412090247165497351

I use Instagram for photo-sharing rather than Edu. Feel it is becoming more & more problematic. Hard to share, link to, link from, lots of adverts and horrible algorithm. Very silo like.

Replied to a tweet by Kenny Pieper (Twitter)

'Twitter did something that I would not have thought possible: It stole reading from me. What is it stealing from you?' https://twitter.com/janinegibson/status/1412044936476872704

1. Reading your & other blogs.
2. Resources, Twitter is good for easy short term sharing not for long term discovery.
3. Time

Posting this via my blog, where it belongs and is organised by me in my online memory.

Replied to Love Love That Dog (CogDogBlog)
As part of doing some sessions at UBC in June, I got some gift cards to use at the bookstore, and picked up some heavy pieces of literature. Tha…

Hi Alan,
I, somewhat serendipitously, read this post recently. Didn’t notice the date.
The book arrived, £2.29 including p&p, this morning.
Marvellous book and I think it will a great resource when I go back to school in August.

Reposted a tweet by Banton Primary (Twitter)

More Scribble Bot fun in the Biggies today. Great #Stem activity, maybe even #STEAM depending on your definition of Art @MrDormanSTEM & @NLCLearningHub might be interested pic.twitter.com/zz16WnR2aE

My life seems to be taking a robotic turn of late. More robots in class today.

Liked The internet consumes extraordinary amounts of energy. Here’s how we can make it more sustainable (theconversation.com)
Around 4.6 billion people use the internet every day. In fact, 350,000 tweets have been sent in the past minute. We tend to think of the internet as something ephemeral – partly thanks to terms like “web” and “cloud” – but the servers that host all that data produce huge amounts of emissions, leaving giant carbon footprints behind.

Via A sustainable web – Sceptical Scot