TWKS provides visiting lecturers for innovative teacher training on the Goldsmiths, University of London, English PGCE course

Monday, November 14, 2011 in andrew davis, Best Posts, Schools/Courses, Social Media, The Power of Digital, Twitter

On Friday 4th November, our very own Dowshan Humzah and Andrew Davis were Visiting Lecturers on the potential of digital and social media in the classroom to students taking the English PGCE…

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What They Didn’t Teach You in School (Poppy Dinsey – What I Wore Today)

Thursday, November 3, 2011 in Best Posts, Career Advice, Interviews, Social Media, The Power of Digital, What I learnt from...., What's Your Story

Hi, I’m Laura and these are my interviews with some of the best people working within digital and social media. I only finished school a few years ago and what I found out since leaving was the amount of opportunity within the digital communications world. I wrote a blog post addressing ‘how…

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Creating Lists On Twitter (Tip 5)

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 in 101 Tips Series, Best Posts, Twitter

Level- Beginner
Who- Twitter users for business purposes or personal
Tip- Using twitter can be a great source of information for a chosen career or industry. For example, following people who you aspire to work with or build a relationship with. The best way of grouping these individuals or organisations…

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Embrace it, because there is no going back!

Monday, January 31, 2011 in Best Posts, Career Advice, Schools/Courses, Social Media



If social media was a subject at school I could have taken, then I would have taken it 100%…
But had I taken it I believe that I would have lost interest given the way that the subject would have been taugth.
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We are not defined by where we click anymore

Monday, January 24, 2011 in Best Posts, Schools/Courses, Social Media

A simple introduction to the principle of online sharing for teachers




To understand a social media audience you will notice that you can apply many of the principles used to understand a traditional media audience: demography, age, sex. However it is important to…

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