Twittering ...

Other than the fact it sounds like an RAF base a bit near where I grew up (Wittering in case you were wondering), I've started to become something of a Twitter fan ...

I'm on twitter - I can update it from home via a rather nifty piece of software that allows me to update both twitter and facebook simultaneously - something called tweetdeck, on my phone via text, or even just on the twitter site! I know there's not many people that are particularly interested in what I get up to, but it's nice to know that it's out there!

So, I like the technology aspect - I'm thinking about ways that I can use it to enhance my teaching. Students now are so internet and technology savvy that there must be a potential application for it. This is despite a teenager recently completing a study stating that twitter isn't for teens. I reckon there's a novelty value that would make it make a difference (it's my new project for the summer I suspect)!!!

However, why am really interested in using twitter? If I'm honest, at the moment it's the ability to follow David Lloyd (@bumblecricket) ... he makes it worthwhile! I reckon he's got completely the right idea about using twitter - his tweets seem to consist of pointing out the 'posh' tendencies of Messrs Hussain and Atherton, while extolling his own working class credentials. Love the cricket comments too. Also, who could fail to be amused by the tweet he presented us with this morning "Sir Beef stuck in lift last night for 45 mins.....tee hee!" My tweet of the series so far? From @tomfordyce - BBC's text commentator towards the end of the Cardiff test when Monty and Anderson were bravely snatching a draw from the jaws of defeat ...

"Someone put an arm around Monty - he's shaking like a trifle in a tornado" ...