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"After School: 5 Apps Your Students Are Using When You're Not Looking" To help me focus in the after lunch dip, I think I might try "Write or Die" to start deleting the words I have typed, if I am not being productive enough!

Social media for schools: a guide to Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest - useful #highered input http://t.co/DqU88Sz4 via @guardian - Sue Beckingham (suebecks) http://twitter.com/suebecks/status/228479909901774848

I love this article Elaine. If only I had got feedback like that when I was at school!!

Quality. A lot of the (official) emphasis on formative assessment in the classroom (or AfL - assessment for learning, they call it in school-land) is down to this guy, Dylan Wiliam, from when he was an adviser to the government: http://www.journeytoexcellence.org.uk/videos/expertspeakers/formativeassessmentdylanwiliam.asp There was also a TV series - 'The Classroom Experiment' - tracing his tinkering with the teaching practices of a regular secondary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00txzwp Essential watching, it was! There are still some clips on there...

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