What Gems does Twitter offer?
Today – 28th February 2011 – is one of those very rare days. I’m not at work. Today one has a very serious bout of man-flu.
Don’t doubt the seriousness of this – the authoritative source that is Macmillan’s Dictionary has this to say. The style of the contributing author suggests – female.
Today is the opportunity to ‘work on the business’ – investigating the changing face of our marketplace and how we can adapt our business to help with the new challenges. This raises a question – what would you want from a supplier like us?
Acknowledging the debilitating effects of man-flu it’s likely that such intense strategising will only be possible in lesser quantities than I would really like. So – what to do to productively complement this?
Let’s follow Twitter links and build a blog post of the amazing information which the world of Twitter provides us with.
Here’s the plan – between 9am and 3pm UK time my Twitter stream will be checked and followed for 10 minutes every hour. Hopefully there’ll be one new useful link which I’ll follow and summarise in this post.
9am
@DeputyMitchell My WORD! looking for train tickets to London on 29/3 =£300!! looks like it will be an 8 hour round trip by car in 1 day then! :-
This sums up one of the biggest problems travellers face in the UK – train prices. Does the UK government really want us to jam up the roads. I suggested to DeputyMitchell that he looks at www.moneysavingexpert.com
Now here’s the crazy bit – the tweeter has one of the most active school blogs in the world. If he was to take the train journey there’s no doubt he’d be doing something creative. An 8 hour car journey added to whatever he’s up to in London makes for a very shattered deputy head teacher. I think he’ll be slightly less than 100% the next day.
@russeltarr Learn more about how teachers are using GLOGS in this blog post: http://tinyurl.com/mgberq Provides this useful snippet
This is likely to be very good – obviously some challenge with the link, link shortener etc. Let’s try at 10am
10am
@TheHeadsOffice I’ve been recommended Live Writer. Anyone know if it is free? Having probs downloading but can’t see any ‘payment’ details!
Now here’s a quick result – I’m writing this post with Windows Live Writer and it is free – I can help.
@chrisleach78 ANyone know if you can get a Wii to connect to wireless network through a proxy server?
This is an interesting trend that our company is working on – primary schools are making more and more use of handheld devices (wii, psp, iphone,kindle etc) and are finding the way heir internet connection is set up is causing problems. Hopefully we’ll have a response to this on our website in a few days.
@FionaHenryVital How handy is this? Free graph paper generator, over 40 styles! Gr8 for printing/using with IWB http://bit.ly/2djNU via @Dannynic #vitalcpd
The link reveals – http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/ the site is heavily laden with ads on the left hand 2/3 of the page and they have a ‘donate’ button. Personally, I’m happy with this – they do have some kind of business model.
The interesting stuff is on the right hand side.
Following the squares link we find this one -
Which gives this fantastic configurator and generator.
here’s my choice
Which gives this pdf – a marvellous utility.
11am
@awitness2011 Goodmorning to all, my day started with prayer and breakfast at the NYCRM. My plans for today are to visit my storage and change my clothing
And I’m whining because I’ve got man flu. Derrick is one of the group of 4 men on http://underheardinnewyork.com/ – homeless men given a prepaid cell phone to tweet about their life. If my maths is correct Derrick is up and about at 6am. NYCRM is the New York City Rescue Mission.
twitter is providing some amazing connections for Derrick and his friends – like this -
Read that again. The New York Giants’ Steve Smith spoke personally to a homeless man – all linked trough Twitter. What could that do for Derrick’s esteem?
Nothing else that streamed through Twitter at 11am came near this – except this
awitness2011 6:15am I am waiting for the storage facility to open. It is raining and a bit chilly by the river. The storage facility opens at 7:30am.
Noon
@Ideas_Factory 9 Online Mind Mapping Galleries /by @philip_boukobza http://bit.ly/dE916n
The link takes us to http://www.visual-mapping.com/2011/02/9-online-mind-mapping-galleries.html
The challenge here is to investigate this in less than 10 minutes.
Following one link – MindMapPedia gives
The history tab from this display takes us to
Which opens up the search box for other mindmaps. Ten minute twitter browse – failed again.
1pm
@DeputyMitchell Anyone know if there is a twitter client for iPad that allows proxy settings input?
Definitely a trend appearing on proxy servers
@JaneWoods3 http://bit.ly/gke7M Voxopop looks like a great resource for speaking and listening activities, MFL and collaborative work.
The link is http://www.voxopop.com/
The site doesn’t appear to have a business model. My question would always be – would I want to rely on this fantastic resource – or make it one of many in my toolkit?
I haven’t signed up – but maybe voxopop could be a way to develop general speaking confidence amongst some pupils 9and adults for that matter).
2pm
@HPTeachExchange Share this post – 5 ways to use Twitter in the classroom http://budurl.com/5tcl #edtech #edchat
The link takes you to a blog put together inside HP – here’s a snippet from that page – nice simple idea
HP Teacher Experience Exchange – http://h30411.www3.hp.com/discussions/1012082?mcid=Twitter
@curtgilstrap Lessons From a Corporate Insider: Dream Big, but Think Small: Bringing about significant chan… http://bit.ly/eiZzmg www.cagilstrap.com
Interestingly- this tweet takes you to a blog post by an ex Hewlett Packard employee! And he’s not very complimentary about big business approaches to social media.
http://www.mpdailyfix.com/lessons-from-a-corporate-insider-dream-big-but-think-small/
@bgardner WordPress 3.1 Is Big Leap Into CMS –> http://b.rian.cc/evlW6A (via @ducttape)
This link gives a quick overview of some of the new features of WordPress 3.1
http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2011/02/28/wordpress-3-1-is-big-leap-into-cms/
3pm
@leicslibraries #exhibition on the history of local #transport #loughborough library 1 Mar – 29 Apr. Usual opening times #free http://ow.ly/44AvM
This takes you to http://www.leics.gov.uk/loughborough_library.htm where there is a mention of the event
@tonyparkin I am standing 20 ft away from an Orange phone mast, in an inner London suburb, yet no 3G signal on Orange available #howcanthatbe #fail
We all know that feeling. Mobile phones and their signals still seem to be a black art.
@jgpwarren Did half marathon on saturday!Survived it!!
That’s a personal interest one – John is the Chairman of the group who oversees the building we are in. He’s training to do the London Marathon for the Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre.
And finally
@cliffmanning Grants for schools ranging from £3,000 to £300,000 http://url.ie/9e7b /via @teachingmusicuk #ukedchat
Which takes us to http://www.teachingmusic.org.uk/ModuleBlog/BlogList.aspx?lngBlogerID=15189
