Oliver Quinlan

Tag: social media

  • Children self organising online communities

    Children self organising online communities

    Despite my belief in learning as potentially self organising, I am regularly amazed at how children in my class take technological tools and make them their own I have previously seen children innovating in their use of online tools, but today I became aware of something that astounded me in terms of self organised use of…

  • Getting Networked

    Getting Networked

    Networking with children brings new directions to learning.

  • Reflections on Learning Without Frontiers 2011 #lwf11

    Reflections on Learning Without Frontiers 2011 #lwf11

    Thoughts on my trip to the Handheld and Games influenced conference on ‘disruptive’ education.

  • Birmingham eSafety strategy launch

    Earlier this week I was made aware of the fact that Simon Whitehouse from Digital Birmingham had used some of my work with 4OQ on web tools at the launch of the new Birmingham eSafety Strategy. You can read his write up of the event here, and his presentation is below. It sounds like our…

  • Using twitter on a school trip

    I always think one of the most powerful uses of the social media that has grown around twitter is for reporting and reflecting on live events on location.  Some time ago a friend and I experimented with some ideas for a club night based around social media and, although we eventually shelved it, it made…