Comments on: Using a twitter account for school

By: familysimpson

familysimpson — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:44:50 +0000

Twitter is blocked in Aberdeenshire. I use Tweetree.com to access and read but cannot get full functionality. At the moment I use my @familysimpson account to post CPD ideas and links and updates on my games based learning projects. I agree that I wouldn’t necessarily want to read what my pupils are doing outside of school. Pupils also would not have separate twitter accounts for home and school and I expect teaching staff would be of the same opinion! Food for thought…

By: daibarnes

daibarnes — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:19:17 +0000

I’m going to try and get our marketing director to update the Twitter account @stbenedicts. He regularly updates the school website with news and could tweet the link each time.

By: Stephen Lockyer

Stephen Lockyer — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:08:27 +0000

I have used Twitter as a specific communication device on a school trip ,and it had a massive and popular impact with the parents. To my mind, keeping communicating is essential for parents to feel ‘in the loop’. This is a great idea – keep it up!