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Tweetorial Reflections

As a Level 2 Professional Tweet Paladin (according to Tweetails.com), the Tweetorial was an ideal opportunity to see how else Twitter can be used in an educational context.  In the past I have discussed ideas around using Twitter as a feedback tool, but the concept of a ‘Tweetorial’ was a new one to me.  I generally use Twitter for the content it delivers… Read more →

Week 9 lifestream review

This week gave me chance to delve into ideas around ‘Big Data’, ‘Data-Mining’ and learning analytics.  Hearing the term ‘Big Data’ at various meetings over the last year, I realised that the focus was always on the data itself, rather than the methods used to ‘mine’ it.  We know that detailed analytics gives us further understanding of a learner’s progress, but… Read more →