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CPD - Using Twitter - a session at Tapton
16th January 2012
What a superb idea from Julia Wilkins at Tapton School near Sheffield to organise a CPD session for her colleagues on some of the ways in which Twitter can be used as a support for continuing professional development. She tweeted earlier in the day for people to join in and at the appointed hour (4.30pm) a stream of tweets became a torrent as colleagues from the twitterverse contributed ideas, views, links and resources.
There were plenty of economics and business teachers providing an input but many from other subjects too and I discovered some great links to free programs that aggregate tweets and to some recent research on how can social media support teacher professional development. Here is a link to follow.
If any other colleague is planning on running such a session just flag it up using our regular hashtag #ecbusteach and I am sure you will have a great crew on hand to offer warm support and ideas. For the latest ecbusteach tweets click here
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.