Do you get fed up with those ‘follow’ emails you get from Twitter. They tell you someone is now following you, but nothing about them. Well take a look at Twimailer

Twimailer demo from jon on Vimeo.

This little app sends you a more detailed email so you can, at a glance, see if you want this person to continue and if you want to follow.  You can also do this on the same email.  Brill

Superclubs Plus

www.superclubsplus.com is the secure, mediated, website club where pupils can create their own web page, and explore communications with other pupils safely.

They have a FREE Lite version for up to 30 users in your school. I tried this (no money in the kitty and want to check it out) with 15 pupils and have been over the moon at how they took to it.

The enthusiasm was a delight to see. You need to contact Superclubs for free teacher log-ins and provide details of pupils on one of their forms. It took me a couple of hours to explore and create my own web page and one for the school, as a way to get my head round how it works. In a single 45 min lesson all my group Y3-Y6 had got something up there and were trying to earn stars.Membership lasts a year, but I think we’re going to have a boot sale to raise the £3.50 each needed to let them access the full version for a year. -

thanks to Carolyn, Kent teachers

Fantastic news

Have you ever wondered about social networking an how it would look if used for educational purposes – yes in real classes with real students  – read on

Steve Hargadon has managed to make a breakthrough with Ning – the social networking site which is being used brilliantly by educators around the world

Check out http://classroom20.ning.com and   http://education.ning.com

to help give you a flavour of the type of layout and conversations taking place.