Twitter is such an integral part of my teaching. learning and professional development process that it is easy to forget that many teachers don’t really understand why they should be using it and what they are missing out. When first introduced to the notion of …

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I am, as any of my students will be able to tell you, a huge fan of WordPress: it is stable, sophisticated, powerful and flexible, all whilst being very simple to use. Last year I rebuilt our school website using WP, and this year I …

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Drupal (http://drupal.org/) is a great CMS (Content Management System) for developing online communities and sites. This is my simple guide for building a Drupal site.

Note that this is written for Drupal 6.8, but should mostly work for the whole 6.x version series. …

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Encourage your students to build, tinker and hack, and use the MAKE Magazine website as a resources to stimulate them. A great way to build creative thinking, fine motor skills and a desire to change things.…

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