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Inspiration 4 Teachers Podcast

To me, the view from Snowdonā€™s summit as the sun sets is inspiring, especially when the only other person on this honeypot peak was my brother whose 30th birthday it was.  I find it hard to think of being inspiring to anyone, but I had a great chat with Kelly Long a little while ago about my thoughts around technology, particularly mobile devices.  I hope you enjoy the episode and check out the other great educators on the Inspiration 4 Teachers podcast which is a great resource.

#TwitteratiChallenge

  I have to be honest here, my first reaction to Rachel Jonesā€™ post was less than positive.  Iā€™m not really a fitting in sort of person.  Iā€™m not the cool kid.  Iā€™m what would be considered a square teacher in a round classroom.  However, that would be both unfair and unkind to Rachel, who is someone that I respect hugely.  And she said nice things about me and so therefore, here is this post.  I actually remember Rachelā€™s first TeachMeet presentation and it was fantastic.  I began to like her even more when I got to know her and understand her. The negative feeling I had was compounded when I looked at this from the Urban Dictionary :   And then Google came to the rescue with this: Which seemed OK, although I was disappointed to learn that there exists no direct Welsh translation. Nor does it exist in Iceland. Bugger.   The truth is, I have no idea whey people follow me on Twitter.  It started, (kind of as I have no...