Audio from my conversation with Dr. Ian Guest, (@IaninSheffield), yesterday evening is now on Radio Edutalk: Radio Edutalk 13-03-19 Ian Guest “Exploring teachers’ professional development with Twitter”. Ian’s approach to research is really interesting and he makes you think more than once about things you take for granted. #EDUtalk.

Hi Chris, Thanks for the listen, it is not often I am accused of keeping things on track;-) I’ve though about this a wee bit. Doing the whole thing via the indieweb would be beautiful but it raises the barrier for participation very high. Setting up WordPress for indieweb is certainly doable but the number […]

“BEST. PD. EVER!” Some teachers make bold claims for the way that Twitter supports their professional development, yet research into this area is rather limited. This study sought to gain a better understanding of the practices involved and the part that Twitter plays. It uses a sociomaterial sensibility informed by actor-network theory (ANT) to unravel […]

An interesting Rabbit hole, Arron is replying to Something Weird is Happening on Twitter Right Now by Bill Ferriter who quotes this Dean Shareski tweet. The twitter thread discuses using twitter for conversation rather than promotion/retweeting/liking.  This is the problem micro.blog set out to solve. So far I think it has done so, I’ve had some very […]