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This post is just some prompts about the areas I covered during my Skype presentation to TeachMeet Memphis. It is intended to help anyone who may be deciding to set up and/or moderate a chat using Twitter, with a primary focus on my own experience of #mathchat. Feel free to comment or ask further questions if anything is not clear or you need some help! Continue reading
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Seeing someone leave the nest or walk by themselves for the first time is inexplicable, unless you’ve experienced it for yourself. Being in a learning environment encourages you to continue learning. Having something to care about and share is, almost, … Continue reading
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Despite your training and experience, everyone you meet tells you what you are doing wrong and how you can do it better. When people find out you are a teacher, the first thing they mention is the long holidays and … Continue reading
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A tale told through twitter about connections – broken and repaired. For Maria Droujkova, Happy Math Storytelling Day! Continue reading
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My review of the second day of the first International Freelancers Day online conference. Just like yesterday’s… no punches pulled! Can’t wait for the next one… Continue reading
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Thoughts on International Freelancers Day 1. If you haven’t read Ivanhoe, then you will have no idea where my title comes from, or that Sir Walter Scott introduced the word free-lance to the English language and, as a Scot, this has … Continue reading
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This is just a short post to explain about the 101 manipulative lessons with LEGO® page. By subscribing to comments, you can stay advised of new additions. I will also advise of updates now and again on the #mathchat hashtag in Twitter. Continue reading
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One of the analogies I have used in past CPD sessions about teaching and intervention is connected to the idea of maps, car-navigation systems, driving and being a passenger. I generally use it to illustrate levels of intervention, but it … Continue reading
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OBSERVATIONS
As a data-collection activity, I feel this was reasonably successful. For future experiments to be successful using Twitter, I think:
a more specialized hashtag would be better.
instructions should be in a tweet about 120-characters long to reduce chances of re-editing.
a longer time period could/should be applied with RTing at timed intervals to allow for global participation.
anyone who ‘hijacks’ the instructions should be contacted and asked to RT original as far as possible.
Google Reader did not retrieve all of the Tweets sent during the experiment, so it is best to have two or three archives available for analysis.
graphs and data charts provided by archive software will also contain extraneous ‘noise’, if people ask questions or discuss the activity using the hashtag.
any archive will probably need to be edited before analysis.
So, over to you now… let me know if you want me to take part in your data-collection activity! Continue reading
Sine of the Times: Dividing the Universe by Zero 