Adapting #movemeon
November 24th, 2009
A recent phenomenon has been sweeping the teaching twitter community – #movemeon. This is a concept created by Doug Belshaw to allow teachers to pass on hints, tips and advice via twitter, with the hastag movemeon as a way of consolidating the info. More info can be found at Doug’s Blog. The results are fantastic and visible tweets shows them off really well.
I was thinking that #revisontips might be another great way of sharing hints and tips, but this time aimed at our pupils. If we use it in the same way as the #movemeon tag, and have the same response….our pupils will obtain a fantastic resource.
Its just an idea, thoughts would be welcome.
Great idea! A few people have been suggesting one for leaders – perhaps #newleaders?
Have you read Charles Leadbeather’s We Think – the power of mass collaboration (see tube vid here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo ) ? I love this concept and Twitter, Blogs, Wallwisher, Drupal etc can all provide the perfect opportunity to do that well. The problem with Twitter is that it does not provide depth in the same way as a standard writing format will. This is not to say it couldn’t be powerful of course : ) ; Twitter is ideal for generating, mapping and sharing ideas. I think we need to take the hastag to the next level and write collaboratively on a dedicated blog or other tools so that thoughts can flow freely without any constraints. Isn’t this what creativity is all about?