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[Phil_b]

Has anyone else found blogs and twitter to be really useful tools for getting new teaching ideas?

I thought that it would be nice to have a thread where we could collect these blogs together (apologies if there already is one... I couldn't find one, so we might want to bump it up to the top again!)

Anyway, here are some that could be worth looking at:

Blogs:

http://www.jamiekeddie.com/

http://mikeharrison.edublogs.org/

http://vle.barkingcollege.ac.uk/techblog/

http://e-blahblah.com/

http://mistermikelcc.blogspot.com/

http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/

http://leafturned.wordpress.com/

http://web20classroom.blogspot.com/

http://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/

http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/

Twitter:

http://twitter.com/#/list/pysproblem81/edutwits

I'm trying to join in myself - here are my efforts:

http://classroom201x.wordpress.com/

http://twitter.com/pysproblem81

[gaijinalways]

I haven't done too much of that, though I do like to read some teacher blogs talking about teaching but not necessarily teaching techniques per se.

I think using blogs can be very interesting, and good way to get students involved with what you're doing. I mostly use them with classes where I teach in a language lab, but they can be used with classes where you're not in the lab, assuming your students have access to computers at home and/or at school.