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Strictly Come Teaching
I should make it clear before getting into this that it’s my fiancee who watches Strictly, not me. My fiancee. I just happened to catch it out of the corner of my eye while I was doing something manly, like DIY. Anyway…
If you live in the UK, you’ll probably not have managed to avoid at [...]
Quickie: Accepting Jack
I’ve got Radio 4 on while I do the washing up, and I’m listening to It’s My Story: Accepting Jack – Six Years On. It follows a number of families with kids who have special needs, and about 20 minutes in, there’s a wonderful moment when a sibling is describing the benefits of having a [...]
Quickie: University of Sheffield to use Google Mail
I got an email in my inbox today announcing that the university will be transferring all taught students’ email accounts to Google Apps for Education (also previously discussed on Chris Sexton’s blog). As is fairly standard, university email has until now been handled in-house. I’ve never had any problems with it: it’s reliable, and the [...]
Weekly links: blogging, books and business
Here are a few things that have caught my eye this week and I thought might interest you as well.
open…: 10 Things to Build a Blog Readership — I’ll certainly be following these tips. I feel that particularly the first is relevant to practically anything you do. On [...]
Quickie: new Twitter client, Tweetie, released for Mac
I’ve been playing with Twitter for a couple of months now, and I have to say, I rather like it. I’ve graduated from interacting with it purely through the Twitter site, and tend to use a client for most of my tweeting.
On my iPod touch, I’ve been using a client by the name of Tweetie [...]
Weekly links: Twitter bits
I often come across links that I find useful or enjoyable and that I’d like to share, but that I haven’t got time to write a full blog post about. I’ve decided, therefore, to try wrapping a few of my favourites up into a weekly(ish) digest which I’ll post here.
This week, a selection of Twitter-related [...]
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