Developing using Studywiz

I’m not convinced about the merits of Twitter yet. I don’t think I do enough interesting things to keep someone ‘following me’.

My partner works in a children’s nursery, and we’ve were discussing the use of blogs to keep parents and carers informed of what their children have been doing that day. Twitter offers an extension of this - at any point you can text a message to Twitter that will appear on the site. Using the RSS feed, this can be embedded on your blog page for parents to read. So you can add ‘We’re baking cakes’ to your page when the children a baking cakes.

The RSS feed can be added to Studywiz - as the image below shows.

Reflecting on Twitter’s uses in secondary schools - I haven’t convinced myself that it would be particularly useful. Teachers who do not have access to a computer could use it to record key points and homework for students - for example PE staff out on the field or teachers on field trips. Students and parents could access this information through Studywiz. It may be a way of recording what is being done in a lesson - using the spirit of Twitter (What are you doing?) to record a learning journey.

I will keep an eye on other educationalists blogs to see if Twitter in schools appears. I might mention it to teachers during training and see if it inspires them or gets a reaction.