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I've done my pre-school year visit to Poundland and the discount book store today - any primary teachers will understand! [MultiMartin]
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Time for a relaxing lunch (@ The King's Arms) http://4sq.com/9lIaZF [MultiMartin]
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Last day of the holidays for me... what should I do? [MultiMartin]
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Last RT: new blog post - Productivity: The Notification Culture - http://bit.ly/bNQCGd [MultiMartin]
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Since my milk allergy has shown no sign of getting better, I've started to drink herbal tea - it's not as bad as i thought. [MultiMartin]
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Finally getting the hang of blogging - thanks to all followers and people who comment! [MultiMartin]
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I appear to be less popular in the digital form so have returned to my former self! [MultiMartin]
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I've never (ever) been able to make an avatar that looks likes me. [MultiMartin]
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Where is the best place to make an online avatar? [MultiMartin]
I am now a…
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Downloads
- Dissertation - Exploring the effects of multimodality on writing. Winner of UKLA Dissertation award.
- ESRC Paper - ‘A fixed point in time and pedagogy’ presented at the ESRC Virtual Worlds seminar series.
- Multiliteracies Paper - Presented at 45th UKLA Conference ‘Building literate communities’ at University of Greenwich, July 2009.
- Using Twitter in the Primary Classroom - My article about @ClassroomTweets, which was published in English 4-11.
I have worked with...
- Durham University - As a guest lecturer for Digital Literacy and research associate
- Futurelab - As an advisor on their ‘Digital Participation’ project, funded by BECTA
- Stockton Local Education Authority - As a primary school teacher as well as running training sessions
- UKLA - I work as part of the ‘Learning Today’ task group and have also presented findings at international conferences
- Whole Child Learning - Research and development work based around creative learning and curriculum innovation
Popular Posts
- A Developing Storm - Response to the axing of the new primary curriculum
- Creating Space for Critical Literacy - Reflections on the critical literacy project I designed to explore racial predjudice through the Uncle Remus stories
- Injecting SATs with a strong dose of popular culture - How our SATs week was transformed into a High School Musical themed week
- Learning to Tweet or Tweeting to Learn - Initial blog post about using Twitter in the primary classroom
- New Literacy Studies 1 - Blog post where I explore NLS and the idea of ‘simulated literacy events’
Latest Comments
- greeninkuk: @MultiMartin No it is something I have been thinking about too! With phone, iPad and comp I never switch...
- MultiMartin: @greeninkuk Thanks – I sometimes feel I am a bit too brutal and should be quiet!
- greeninkuk: @MultiMartin Your blog post is great, some real home truths there for me!
- Doug Belshaw: Sounds like a fairly productive year to me! Glad you're finding #uppingyourgame useful.
Your... - James Cross: In terms of students' social networking in schools reaching a wider audience, have you had a look...
Blogroll
- Angela A. Thomas - Brilliant blog by Angela T
- argle.net - By Angela Colvert
- Digilane - A blog by the amazing Elaine Millard
- Digital Beginnings - Fantastic blog by Jackie Marsh
- Digital Literacies - By the one and only DrJoolz
- Doug Belshaw - Technology, productivity and learning
- Edte.ch - Inspiring advice from Tom Barrett
- ICT Steps - Reflections from Kevin McLaughlin
- Lapland - A blog by Sylvia and Mick
- LordLit - Ponderings and musings from Bill Lord
- my vedana - Excellent blog from Guy Merchant
- word and image - A blog by Sigrid
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