I am delighted to announce my launch of "Innovate Five": a 15-session live video-conference series focusing on 'capacity to innovate'. 

Click here for the official SCIL page where you'll find the registration links.

I'd appreciate you passing on word about the course to any colleagues who might be interested. It is open to everyone from any walk of life. 

Read on to hear a more personal account of it. 

The Heart of Innovation

Whether you're a teacher, a mum or an executive, a broader capacity to think and act innovatively opens new opportunities for making the world a better place. Innovation keeps society flexible, agile, ready to meet the future. I love innovation. I value it. I want to grow it in myself, and I love collaborating with other innovators. 

What is ‘Innovate Five’?

The course has grown out of my quest for mental toolkits that help enable creative thought, clarity and capacity to take initiative to 'get the show on the road' quickly.

The word 'capacity' sums it up for me; the shift from 'survive' to 'thrive' implies a sense of spare capacity.

I don't want to lead a reactive life. I want to be calm, centred and purposeful. Otherwise, in the noise of 2012, I'll just get blown away.

An Inventory System

I call Innovate Five an ‘inventory system’, because the process is aimed squarely at developing a meta-cognitive scanning process across five domains, which leave you with an inventory for future growth.

I’ve clustered toolkits under self, work, people, change, space: 

You want as many of these kits working in your favour as possible. The greater the mastery of more of the toolkits, the greater your ability to nurture and maintain capacity in trying circumstances.  

You might already be instinctively strong in some areas, but less ‘awake’ to others in the grid. 

An inventory gives you a chance to identify what you don’t know that you don’t know, but also what you did know but brushed aside, or have been too busy to act on.

What is the format of Innovate 5?

60 minute video-conferences, once a week, in groups of up to 10, with presentation & discussion/debrief.

The course will include an optional reading program and optional homework tasks.

You need a computer with a reliable broadband Internet connection. 

Who is it for?

Anyone seeking to develop their capacity to generate and implement ideas to improve the world.

Not limited to educators. 

Is this a leadership course?

No.

Is this a personal development course?

There is an overlap, especially in the 'self' dimension.

However, I frame personal development narratives in a strongly utilitarian fashion that may be unsettling to some. I emphasise a process of alienation that helps generate new insights and perspectives. And yet, this process is not designed to make you more vulnerable, but more profoundly safe; safe to be creative. 

The organising principle of 'Innovate 5' is capacity to innovate, not personal development.

How to Participate?

Sign up and show up! Our first group launches:

Thursday, March 8th, 8pm-9pm AEST (international times) (I can launch new series to suit your time zone)

Each series continues weekly, with some interruptions, until mid July. See booking screen for exact dates.

Not this time, but maybe later?

Get news on future re-runs by subscribing to our ongoing SCIL newsletter, or drop me a line here and ask to be updated when I launch re-runs of Innovate 5. 

Okay - the best professional development strategy for teachers is, without doubt, getting connecting in a Personal Learning Network, in any form. Twitter has proven remarkable for teachers in their ability to reach out and connect, in very real and authentic collaborative learning relationships. For years now my motto has been "if I can get a colleague onto Twitter, they'll never be the same" (like me!!)

But now there is something even better. It doesn't replace Twitter, but it works very similarly. It is the teachmeet movement. Launched in the UK in an initiative by Ewan McIntosh, the idea has spread and is now gaining traction in Australia: organise local face to face meetings of teachers to swap ideas and reflect on practice. The notion is so powerful: you don't have to wait for permission or for top-down policy change. Join the grassroots tribe and transform education from the inside out. 

It is a bottom-up movement - teachers can just go ahead and organise a teachmeet. Wonderful people in Sydney, Australia have launched the teachmeet movement here. Lots of colleagues have worked hard to make it happen. I take my hat off to them. I wonder if they understand the energy they've unleashed!

Check out the events here: http://tmsydney.wikispaces.com/ and consider if you might like to attend or organise a teach-meet of your own!

So much buzz and energy and passion for change was harnessed in 2011 in Sydney thanks to the teachmeets! 

One indicator of this cascading excitement is a HUGE Sydney Teachmeet planned for Friday, March 2. In fact the ambition is to make it a WORLD RECORD for the most teachers yet at a teachmeet event. 

Click here to read more about it. COME ALONG! Doesn't matter if you don't know anyone else. Come join the tribe. As the poster says "FREE EDU EVENT run BY TEACHERS FOR TEACHERS". What an empowering notion!!

P.S. join the Facebook group too! https://www.facebook.com/groups/tfcsydney/

P.P.S. the TM movement is spreading Australia-wide! There's bound to be something happening locally to you, and if not, start one up yourself!

Our full-staff PD day last week included this creative collaboration:

And then the next day staff grouped themselves up and selected their own mini passion project, to be completed in a whirlwind within 4 hours. 

Our Stage #3 team were inspired by Yayoi Kusama's "Obliteration Room", and managed to whip up their own in no time (Skender ran home to get an old table... someone must sourced white paint from somewhere):

The students will add stickers all over the place (earning each one, mind you, via a gamified structure).

Elsewhere, Ben Hedstrom, Amanda Hill and colleagues are redeveloping the music rooms to an open-plan student-directed structure. They will crush the distinction between year groups: different classes and ages will share the space simultaneously, forming a semi-professional studio, the older mentoring the younger.

Another team made a boredom buster station:

I'm not sure what this was but it looks fantastic:

Some Visual Arts staff recycled their own previous works, I believe by cutting it into strips and mashing it up again. Their vision for the art spaces is busting them open into a Parisian studio, with no clear distinction between the inside and a creative, rive gauche esplanade in the open air. 

Tim Barrett and colleagues made some new furniture, and videoed the process!

The day ended with some crowd-sources post-it thoughts:

The crowd-sourcing of teacher development is the most powerful PD you can offer. Teachers have limited need for outside experts - a more pressing need is space to collaborate, then cross-pollinate.

Two weeks ago I worked with two Brisbane schools for a day. Walking in as an outsider to a new context, I took a hunch on the crowd-source/collaborate/cross-pollinate processes and allocated three sessions in the day for them. It worked a treat, and I don't see why it won't work anywhere. I think it's fine to have top-down leadership: we all want to look up to a leader to help steer the ship, BUT what joy and power there is in grassroots, bottom-up collaboration. No one controlling, no one waiting to act.

It's beyond the scope of this post (it's dinner time) but it's fascinating watching the business world shift in the same direction, to the same distributed-leadership model. All about agility, flexibility, contextual-leadership etc.

And on that note I will abruptly finish this post. I have a roast waiting! 

Understanding the schooling paradigm-shift requires one to be a culture-watcher. It is the seismic changes in society which make the schooling system appear so anachronistic and functionally irrelevant. 

One such change: the rise in technologies facilitating collective action and intelligence.

The original technology that facilitated collective action and intelligence was money. Money sped up collective intelligence in a seismic fashion. 

Since I'm on clichés today let's mention Wikipedia. It runs itself. Hierarchies are artefacts that bubble-up from grassroots communities. Everyone chips in.

Money facilitated the 'division of labour'. I have an iPhone. No single person or business knows how an iPhone is made. Apple coordinated the design, but I doubt they know how to mine the materials or manufacture the plastics or silicon inside, and it's the army of poor at Foxconn that assembled it, in a factory assembled by other industries and experts. Every product or process in the modern world bubbles up out of a myriad of collective intelligences, forming meta-collectives, and meta-meta-collectives. 

I'm getting to Star Wars.

The mass media until the end of the 20th century consisted chiefly of one-to-many technologies. The printing press, radio, television, yadayadayada. 

The web has allowed the proliferation of many-to-many technologies. That is, collective intelligences. 

Endless funky web experiments have illustrated the phenomena. Check this fascinating investigation into Twitter rumours during the London riots and how the collective intelligence corrected misinformation.

I'm getting to Star Wars, ok?

Oh alright I'll cut to the chase.

The Star Wars Uncut project allowed anyone in the world to claim a 15 second excerpt from the Star Wars IV film and create their own version. The entire film has been sown back together again from these micro-remakes.

The result is bizarrely watchable and hilarious. Every 15 second cut has something unique and witty to bring to the party. Like so much of modern global-village life, it's a pot-luck lunch where everyone brings their best to the table. Contributing artists move between slapstick, irony, gravitas, intertextual references, and the absurd, so the resulting text has a density that is common and expected in the media nowadays. 

And it just made me think: our young people are growing up in an age where participation in collective intelligences is as natural as breathing. It wasn't so when I was a lad, but it is now.

Consider the 'technologies of schooling': classrooms, authority figures, timetables, reporting, yadayadayada. These are redundant technologies. They are the equivalent of a horse-and-cart, or a punch-card reader.

Schooling as we know it is an anachronistic technology.

It is only a matter of time before our collective intelligence puts in the bin in favour of a new process - a new sociological institution - that relies on emergent cooperation rather than hierarchical order.

And now for the show!  

And I'm not sure how we got onto it, but I started expounding on my 'teaching is traumatic' theory. 

Summer recounts her reaction to this in a blog post, which I will quote at length here:

"When I first heard this statement, I had a physiological reaction. Maybe it was because I was tired, or maybe it struck a real chord as I’ve been working with pre-service and new teachers who I have watched struggle with fatigue and frustration, and I remember this  as I feel that I finally found my groove this year. Teaching is Traumatic in many ways, it’s true.  Our job is pretty high pressure and high stakes. Trauma reminds me of hospitals, and if you think about it school admin is much like the emergency ward. You can make a list of things to get done, but an incident may happen, or something needs you swiftly, and this means everything stops and all focus is on this unexpected event. It means lots of the creative, and the ‘to do’ work is done late into the night, into the weekends. We are dealing with raw human, heightened emotion every day."

How apt is that? That "school admin is much like the emergency ward"? There is a triage process where you decide which 5 out of the 100 things you wish to achieve will actually get done in your available 15 minutes.

The greatest layer of brutalisation, in my opinion, is the 'classroom management' paradigm, where 1 adult teacher is given 1 alotment of territory with 1 group of students, for 1 year at a time.

Tell me that doesn't sound like the premise for a Big Brother reality TV show? 

This scene from Summer Heights High sums it all up for me:

Teachers will recognise it as excruciatingly close to the bone. What does anyone expect will happen? It's the school machine that brutalises teachers and students alike. 

Many students emerge from the machine with subtle scarring that is still identifiable decades later. I've noticed it emerges at dinner parties when strangers discover I am a languages teacher. Invariably this triggers a reversion and they recount how they "Made their French teacher cry once." They've not re-processed this event properly since reaching adulthood. All they remember is the moment of triumph where they stuck it to THE MAN (or woman). 

It's human nature to kick against confinement. 

Teaching is traumatic. 

In their first and second years of teaching, teachers settle on coping mechanisms and classroom tactics that somehow WORK to allow them to survive. For some this means repeatedly nagging the kids into submission, reacting to nothing and tolerating very high levels of chaos, as if resigned to a perpetual tug of war over every little detail. Others climb and conquer Mount Classroom Management. Hardly a victory, to my mind, because order was never the litmus test for learning. (See www.anarchyinlearning.com for the counter-example... high disorder + high organic learning, but disorder does not equal chaos). 

So teachers find a way to cope. They define their own status quo. 

But they earned it at a cost. They survived their first years with tears. 

They cry at their desks. They go home and sleep 14 hours Friday evening and don't want to go out all weekend. They get grumpy at their loved ones and then feel like rats. I say they, and I mean me too, although for me, personally, it was a feeling like I had 'lost myself' somewhere in the day. It was all numbness.

Summer's blog post continues as an unfolding story of shifting from survival mode to thrive mode.

Her post deserves a close read to track the dynamics of the shift. Look at her vocabulary. It invokes the language of journey, of community, of connection, of meaning. 

I, too, found a path through, assisted greatly by online connections, wonderful, loving colleagues at my school, and a paradigm shift that has only intensified each year I have worked from 'school as a machine' to 'school as a village'.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this topic and your own journey.

Also, watch this space. I'm working very hard this very moment to put together an online mentoring program for 2012 designed to stare these issues directly in the eye. 

I am thinking it will:

- be spaced out over 6 months to allow slow, genuine growth.

- be accessible at multiple, flexible times via videoconferencing, and available worldwide.

- be modularised so people can dip in and out as suits the rhythm of their lives.

- mash up direct advice, and critical thinking, and small-group communities to share a journey together.

- confront all the faultlines we have to navigate, from school politics, to educational philosophy, to inner growth, to workflow and information management. 

- aim to nurture a savvy, resilient, leadership-orientated mindset that will stand colleagues in good stead for years to come, across multiple scenarios.  

I'll announce the details very soon. It will be a 'SCIL' thing, not something I am doing privately. I wonder if the idea appeals? I'd appreciate your thoughts as always. 

Life-hacking is just a slightly geeky version of personal development. It tends to see life as a 'system' and then employ insights into the system in order to 'control the system' rather than have the system be in control. Sounds nerdy, right? Also, impossible. As I said, it's really personal development under another name. I think it suits since I approach even personal issues with a Spock-like analytical angle.  

I've read intensely, widely, and desperately in my quest to find a measure of peace and centredness in the chaos, stress, even trauma of school life. Take, for instance, the fragmentation of consciousness that occurs each day due to the rapidly shifting informational, relational, and spacial contexts and agendas. Take your eyes off the ball and you find yourself a bundle of numbness, lost.

I've hesitated to publish much regarding my journey except the "GTD" method of managing workflow. GTD is classic life-hacking, by the way. 

However, in 2011 I ran a day themed "from survive to thrive" which was well-received. I deliberately included highly personal self-development elements in the day. I re-ran it another three times, and grew in confidence regarding the relevance and potential impact of the material.

My biggest fear has been that these lightning-strike insights for me will be already-mastered self-evident truths to others. This is not an unfounded fear! Ask my wife, or anyone who has met me! 

But then I think, heck, people can eat the fish and spit out the bones, right? That's the spirit of blogging - it's a pot-luck lunch and we each offer what we've got.

In that spirit, I'd like to offer you www.lifelevelup.com - a geeky name referring to discontinuous power transitions in computer games! Hyperbole, moi? And yet that's how it has felt for me.

If it sounds interesting, have a glance. You'll find my first three posts, such as this one exploring a method for 'hacking' spacial contexts by mapping physical space to mental states. There's PLENTY MORE where that crazy idea came from.

There's a clearly-marked email subscription box and RSS feed in the right margin if my pot-luck lunch appeals.

Tread carefully, you walk on my soul! 

Or a week?

Béa and Oliver Beste

Béa Beste visited my school, (Northern Beaches Christian School) in March 2011 for two days, and then returned with her husband Oliver for the best part of a week before Christmas. 

We bonded immediately as kindred spirits. Béa had, previously, launched a series of bilingual schools in Germany and was travelling the world seeking inspiration for her next idea: 'playducation'. Béa understands the implications of the attention economy; that engagement is everything, imagination all powerful, inspiration un-stoppable. I decohered somewhat in my last post about 'life is desire', but the point is simple: learning comes from internal impulses. 

Béa took a LOT of video footage over her week-long séjour at NBCS in November. 

A Third Party Perspective

She has since mixed down hours of footage down to a 7 minute video which is likely to become my definitive resource for communicating what we're on about. First of all, I'm grateful to Béa for her hard work! (Thanks Béa!)

It's fascinating for me to see what a visitor notices. What was most salient? What stood out, out of everything?

SCIL Special Agents of Change from Bea Beste on Vimeo.

Themes Explored:

A bold vision: turning school into an 'airport of learning', and radically rethinking timetabling and physical spaces.

Vision first, administration second, and distributed-leadership rather than top-down.

Get ideas from other learning spaces, that aren't schools. 

Dissolve walls, even between 'inside' and 'outside'.

Possibilities open up with 200 students + 8 teachers in 1 large space, especially 'culture of sharing'.

Students in the driving seat, including co-desigining learning landscape. 

Teacher PD must be inline with the same principles. PD isn't lead from the front but is grass-roots. e.g. teachers on field trips to visit businesses around Sydney and investigate modern spaces. 

Safe-failing, risk-taking culture.

Connecting teachers and students to the world via the internet.

Teaching the curriculum, but going FURTHER, and not letting it constrain the pedagogy.

Gathering a Tribe, Building a Movement

I am delighted by the video and by what Béa saw after a week embedded in our school.

You know what? Our connection with Béa and Oliver is so strong because we recognise we belong to the same tribe. 

The tribe is rethinking learning. I suspect that you, o ye humble blog reader, are part of our tribe too, by virtue of spending your SPARE TIME reading about learning. Why would anyone spend their SPARE TIME on this!? You could be at the beach! No one has asked you to do it. No one is accrediting you. No one is paying you extra. No one has given you permission, a mandate or a deadline.

It takes courage to be in this tribe. Most of us had 13 years schooling learning how to DO SCHOOL. Then in our teacher training were taught how to DO SCHOOL. When we watch soap opera school scenes we're reminded how to DO SCHOOL. 

Courage to be in this tribe, because we reject the well-worn DNA, resist its momentum, refuse its answers, recant its first principles - but if we leave the well-worn path, where will we go instead?

It's a conversation:

Learning Experiences from SCIL on Vimeo.

The tribe is open for membership, no interview required, no papework. It's conceptual: your name isn't written anywhere. It helps if you tweet or blog, but there's no rules, and there's not even a territory mapped out (we're the surveyors). You may be a lone ranger at your school. That's ok, you can be like a secret spy seeking to overthrow the ancien régime from the inside, lighting a little fire in your own backyard.

If you're in the tribe, wave at me, won't you? Leave a comment and say g'day!

P.S. Keep your eye on SCIL in 2012 - we're keener than ever to help build steam in the transformation movement. 

Joe Dale, a language-teacher-turned-consultant from the UK, will be in Australia for most of April 2012 and is available to travel pretty much anywhere to work with you! (Particularly good news if you're in regional Australia!) 

I chatted with Joe over Skype for a good hour the other day and was excited to hear his plans. 

Don't know Joe? Read more about him here: http://joedale.typepad.com/about.html and his general website here: http://joedale.typepad.com/ Listen to an interview on the Australian Edtech Crew podcast here. You'll see immediately that he is all about serving colleagues with ideas, information and news, with an eye for practicalities and particularly extensive experience with ICT for language learning.  He is gentle and encouraging. 

Invite him to your school for a day: he'll inject confidence, creativity and energy! Contact him here.

24 hours ago my Primary teacher colleague Daniel Wearne had just joined Twitter and had 11 followers + 1 tweet. I became obsessed with the idea of surprising him this morning with a 'ready-made PLN'.

A PLN is an online network of colleagues to share with. Normally you grow one slowly, but hey, who says it ALWAYS has to be that way! Everyone loves a surprise present!! Let's gift this great teacher with a ready-made network! 

So I tweeted out the idea to follow him and spread the word!

And I watched as the message was rebroadcast over and over...

...and Daniel had 36 followers

...and then 45

...then 82

Stoking the Fire:

I stoked the fire by direct messaging about 15 particular tweeters, who I either noticed were online at that very moment, or who I knew had lots of followers, especially in the UK (e.g. @tombarrett and @joedale) and the USA (e.g. @gcouros). They all got on board enthusiastically, and there's a lesson there: if you're keen to get a message out, don't be afraid to ask!

I kept at it:

Bedtime:

When I went to bed at 11pm there were 160 fellow educators, all around the world, who had put their hands up to listen to his voice.

And I slept.

Morning:

When I woke I immediately reached for my faithful iPhone on the bedside table.

Another 100 had joined the party overnight.

Dan's wife, Linda Wearne, also a teacher at NBCS (and also worth the follow!), tweeted this:  

Yayy!! He likes his present!!

I drove to work. (Meanwhile another 20 people on the bandwagon!)

I arrived at school.

I went straight up to Daniel! He looked rather shocked:

You can see from his account that he's keen to engage with his new buddies...

ALL THREE HUNDRED AND FOUR OF THEM!

A Warm Welcome:

In the last 24 hours he's received well over 90 welcome messages, including plenty of warm welcomes:

 And some wit: 

And some advice too:

I've copied all of the replies at the bottom of this post. Many thanks to everyone!!

Not Too Late To Join The Free Teacher Conference That Never Sleeps

And as I said in my last post, if you're not on Twitter yet, it's not too late.

These warm welcomes to Dan... it's what's waiting for you if you decide you want to get on board.

You won't get a network of 300 followers overnight like Dan, but you don't need to either. I remember very fondly hovering around 30 or 40 for many weeks... it was plenty enough for a rocking great conversation and genuine connection with like-minded teachers.

Join Twitter, and grow your network slowly, like an indoor plant! 

Thanks for joining in everyone!

Appendix (!) Dan's deluge of welcome tweets:

Starshine_Music Starshine Music 

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@D_wearne welcome to it!

1 hour ago       

ianuct Ian Barbour 

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@D_wearne Welcome to Twitter - There is a pay if forward in there somewhere maybe write a short blog post reflecting on the process?

1 hour ago       

paz11uc Pinelopi Zaka 

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@D_wearne Good point

1 hour ago       

paz11uc Pinelopi Zaka 

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@D_wearne Brilliant! Will be even better with students' mobile devices in there ;-)

1 hour ago       

siandart siandart 

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@D_wearne welcome! Your friend has set you up nicely. Don't feel obliged to follow back, find tweeps who are relevant to you.

5 hours ago       

Embed_Ed Brian Neises 

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@D_wearne Glad you're jumping in! It's the best PD tool in my opinion!

6 hours ago       

rellypops Dr Narelle Lemon 

 

Ah and this is why #table2 & others like @tombarrett inspire RT “@D_wearne: is blown away by the twitterverse”. Have a go#sehltf11

6 hours ago       

venemy Jeremy Blackman 

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@D_wearne you swallowed the red pill then? ;)

6 hours ago       

wholeboxndice Steve Box 

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@D_wearne I marvel at it everyday. Hang on and enjoy the ride!

6 hours ago       

paulrwood Paul R Wood 

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@D_wearne welcome to the twitter verse. Jump in and enjoy. Looking forward to learning from and with you.

6 hours ago       

HolliSinger Holli Singer 

 

@D_wearne welcome!!!

6 hours ago       

SCU006 Kate 

 

@D_wearne Hi Dan I am a 3rd year education student at Southern Cross University. I look forward to following you. Have a great day :)

8 hours ago       

shanepilkie Shane Pilkie 

 

Follow teacher and new tweeter @d_wearne. The idea is to give him a big surprise when he wakes up!! (See bit.ly/vou7Ip) Please RT!!

9 hours ago       

LaurenForner Lauren Forner 

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@Steve_Collis @d_wearne welcome Dan :) great to have another great mind to draw on in the twitterverse!

10 hours ago       

rellypops Dr Narelle Lemon 

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@D_wearne Blows your mind :)

11 hours ago       

msolomonteacher Ms. Solomon 

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@Steve_Collis @d_wearne What a great gift for a friend!

11 hours ago       

rellypops Dr Narelle Lemon 

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@sthcrft @d_wearne Thats for sure :) Been an eventful week for many of us on Twitter this week :)

11 hours ago       

sthcrft Sarah Thorneycroft 

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@rellypops @d_wearne A little bit of Friday awesome :).

11 hours ago       

ronhoutman Ron Houtman 

 

@D_wearne Welcome to your insta-PLN. Let us know if you ever need anything.

11 hours ago       

mrs_hembree Julie Hembree 

 

@D_wearne Welcome to Twitter and your growing PLN!

12 hours ago       

robinroja Robin 

 

@D_wearne ¡Bienvenidos a Twitter!

12 hours ago       

kimyeo Kim Yeomans 

 

RT @le_harris @Steve_Collis You should see @d_wearne smile :-) (Yay!)

12 hours ago       

le_harris Linda Wearne 

 

@Steve_Collis You should see @d_wearne smile :-)

12 hours ago       

rellypops Dr Narelle Lemon 

 

Did you wake up this morning w a great following @D_wearne? Twitter is a great way to connect ideas for #education. Enjoy :)

13 hours ago       

asamper Ana Maria de Samper 

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@Steve_Collis @d_wearne Glad it worked out so well. Congratulations!!!

13 hours ago       

rellypops Dr Narelle Lemon 

 

Public #arted idea RT “@D_wearne: @Stephen_H @Steve_CollisHow would this genre of art work in an educational setting?vimeo.com/30887851”

13 hours ago       

Steve_Collis Steve Collis 

 

TOO MUCH FUN!!! Newbie tweeter @d_wearne went from 11 to 280 followers - a deliberate surprise PLN-gift. Seehappysteve.com/blog/help-me-c… THANKS!

13 hours ago       

LearningSpy David Didau 

 

@D_wearne Hi Dan - welcome to Twitter. Looking forward to reading your Tweets

13 hours ago       

Darcy1968 Darcy Moore 

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@D_wearne @Steve_Collis What a wonderful surprise to see so many connecting so quickly! Enjoy twitter!

14 hours ago       

anna_bring Anna Bring 

 

@d_wearne welcome 2 Twitter. Hope u have fun! Greetings from Norway

17 hours ago       

asamper Ana Maria de Samper 

 

@D_wearne 237 followers!!! Not too shabby!!! Congrats!!

17 hours ago       

plnaugle Paula Naugle 

 

@D_wearne Happy Thanksgiving and welcome to Twitter. This is a great place to learn and share with the members of your PLN.

17 hours ago       

nzvh Viv Hall 

 

@d_wearne welcome 2 an amazing e-community.

18 hours ago       

CoCreatr Bernd Nurnberger 

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@blairteach @charrod followed @d_wearne as a welcome. Greetings from Japan.

18 hours ago       

katpam3 Kathy Paiml 

 

@D_wearne Happy PLN! Like your blog!

18 hours ago       

Steve_Collis Steve Collis 

 

Follow teacher and new tweeter @d_wearne. The idea is to give him a big surprise when he wakes up!! (See ow.ly/1AUrwo) Please RT!!

18 hours ago       

blairteach Nancy Blair 

 

@D_wearne Welcome to Twitter! To find great edus to follow, seebit.ly/oR03Rn & bit.ly/a9z93X to begin learning & sharing.

18 hours ago       

blairteach Nancy Blair 

 

RT @charrod: Follow teacher & new tweeter @d_wearne. The idea is to give him a big surprise when he wakes up!! (See bit.ly/vaJIKR)

18 hours ago       

charrod Cary Harrod 

 

Follow teacher and new tweeter @d_wearne. The idea is to give him a big surprise when he wakes up!! (See bit.ly/vaJIKR) Please RT!!

18 hours ago       

LidijaKralj Lidija Kralj 

 

@d_wearne. Welcome aboard and have inspirational PLN :) Greetings from Croatia (See bit.ly/vxWSki)

19 hours ago       

TeachaKidd ☆ Lee Kolbert 

 

Follow teacher and new tweeter @d_wearne. The idea is to give him a big surprise when he wakes up!! (See happysteve.com/blog/help-me-c…) Please RT!!

19 hours ago       

tinavanerp tinave 

 

@D_wearne Welcome! Love your bio! Me too! Looking forward to PLN-ing with you!

19 hours ago       

vghathaway V Hathaway 

 

Follow teacher and new tweeter @d_wearne. The idea is to give him a big surprise when he wakes up!! (See happysteve.com/blog/help-me-c…) Please RT!!

19 hours ago       

asamper Ana Maria de Samper 

 

@D_wearne Dan, welcome to Twitter from Bogota, Colombia. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

19 hours ago       

DevonAlderton Devon Alderton 

 

Fun Christmas music video w baby hipsters. Via @d_wearnefifty5words.tumblr.com/post/127144325…

20 hours ago       

DevonAlderton Devon Alderton 

 

Twitter fun! RT @Steve_Collis: ooo let's make this go viral and he'll get a lovely surprise: follow Primary teacher @d_wearne, new tweeter

20 hours ago       

deonscanlon Deon Scanlon 

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@Steve_Collis @d_wearne 165 now!

20 hours ago       

kdneville Katie Neville 

 

Welcome to Twitter @d_wearne I've been teaching for 40 years!

20 hours ago       

beccollett Rebecca Collett 

 

@Steve_Collis welcome @d_wearne!

21 hours ago       

Sciencematters Christine Redman 

 

Gone from 11>138 “@willie42: Follow new teacher tweeter@d_wearne. give him a big surprise when he wakes up!!j.mp/vxWSki RTplease

21 hours ago       

benpaddlejones Ben Jones 

 

@D_wearne I support Jello Biafra's call for peelable paint so street art can be hung in gallery's next gen idea paint?

21 hours ago       

benpaddlejones Ben Jones 

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@D_wearne @Stephen_H @Steve_Collis you'll find street art in many schools some planned some not so...

21 hours ago       

benpaddlejones Ben Jones 

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@D_wearne welcome to twitter & nice blog too, look forward to sharing more

21 hours ago       

mgraffin Michael Graffin 

 

@D_wearne Hi from Perth, Western Australia. I think you're going to be pretty busy this morning ;)

21 hours ago       

tweet_nic Nic B 

 

@D_wearne Welcome to twitter! Grab a cuppa & enjoy this lil bit of inspiration: youtu.be/aawF0M72hOo

22 hours ago       

janellewilson Janelle Wilson 

 

@D_wearne Welcome to Twitter ! It's a great place to learn from & be inspired by fellow educators.

22 hours ago       

Sciencematters Christine Redman 

 

U2 can“@willie42: Follow new teacher tweeter @d_wearne - give him a big surprise when he wakes up!! (See j.mp/vxWSki) Please RT!!”

22 hours ago       

kimbowa Kim Flintoff 

 

Follow teacher and new tweeter @d_wearne. The idea is to give him a big surprise when he wakes up!! (See happysteve.com/blog/help-me-c…) Please RT!!

22 hours ago       

kimbowa Kim Flintoff 

 

@D_wearne Hey - welcome to Twitter... Do I reward studnets for sitting still? Not directly... but there is secondary gain to consider...

22 hours ago       

willie42 Andrew Williamson 

 

Follow teacher and new tweeter @d_wearne. The idea is to give him a big surprise when he wakes up!! (See j.mp/vxWSki) Please RT!!

22 hours ago       

willie42 Andrew Williamson 

 

@D_wearne Welcome to twitter!

22 hours ago       

tharding Tim Harding 

 

Hey @d_wearne! Great to see you on twitter!

22 hours ago       

Steve_Collis Steve Collis 

 

UPDATE unsuspecting teacher @d_wearne has gone from 11 to 91 followers in 2 hrs. It's a secret surprise! Keep them coming! Spread the word!

22 hours ago       

kimyeo Kim Yeomans 

 

@Steve_Collis Would love to see the look on @D_wearne 's face when he opens twitter tomorrow :)

22 hours ago       

macgirl19 Gillian 

 

@D_wearne Welcome to the staffroom where there's a buzz 24 hours a day! Hope you get as much out of it as I do :)

22 hours ago       

NigelHolloway Nigel Holloway 

 

@D_wearne welcome to the best PLN you could hope for! Look forward to sharing / conversing!

22 hours ago       

cwoldhuis Chris Woldhuis 

 

"@Steve_Collis: ooo let's make this go viral & he'll get a lovely surprise tomorrow: follow new tweeter, Primary teacher@D_wearne" Go Dan!

22 hours ago       

jomcleay Jo McLeay 

 

@D_wearne welcome to the twitterverse. It will be a joy learning with such a great bunch of people

22 hours ago       

EduSum Summer Charlesworth 

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@paulegray @Steve_Collis @D_wearne of course!!

22 hours ago       

jomcleay Jo McLeay 

Follow teacher and new tweeter @d_wearne. The idea is to give him a big surprise when he wakes up!! (See happysteve.com/blog/help-me-c…) Please RT!!

22 hours ago       

tseenkhoo Tseenster 

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@rellypops @d_wearne @tombarrett Excellent idea - welcome, Dan! Looking forward to hearing yr thoughts. :)

22 hours ago       

ablackwellngs Andrew Blackwell 

@D_wearne Welcome dude to the educators world

22 hours ago       

SuzanneITRT Suzanne Whitlow 

@D_wearne Welcome to the world of Twitter educators!

22 hours ago       

librario868 Pamela 

RT @tombarrett: Follow teacher + new tweeter @d_wearne The idea is 2 giv him big surprise whn he wakes up! (See bit.ly/vxWSki) Pls RT

22 hours ago       

betchaboy Chris Betcher 

Follow teacher and new tweeter @d_wearne. The idea is to give him a big surprise when he wakes up!! (See happysteve.com/blog/help-me-c…) Please RT!!

22 hours ago       

cathie_h Cathie Howe 

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@D_wearne Welcome to twitter :)

22 hours ago       

paulegray Paul Gray 

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@EduSum @steve_collis @d_wearne does that make me one of the cool kids?

22 hours ago       

rellypops Dr Narelle Lemon 

Welcome teacher + new tweeter @d_wearne The idea is to give him a big surprise when he wakes up!! (See bit.ly/vxWSki)@tombarrett

22 hours ago       

Marie_Sanako Marie O'Sullivan 

RT @tombarrett: Follow teacher + new tweeter @d_wearne The idea is to give him big surprise when he wakes up!! (bit.ly/vxWSki) Pls RT

22 hours ago       

tombarrett tombarrett 

Follow teacher + new tweeter @d_wearne The idea is to give him a big surprise when he wakes up!! (See bit.ly/vxWSki) Pls RT

22 hours ago       

EduSum Summer Charlesworth 

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@paulegray @Steve_Collis @D_wearne all the cool kid hang here

23 hours ago       

paulegray Paul Gray 

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@Steve_Collis @d_wearne hi and welcome. Great place for learning, this twitter thing.

23 hours ago       

markliddell Mark Liddell 

RT @Steve_Collis: ooo let's make this go viral & he'll get a lovely surprise tomorrow: follow new tweeter, Primary teacher @d_wearne#edchat

23 hours ago       

andallm A Allmark 

RT @Steve_Collis: ooo let's make this go viral and he'll get a lovely surprise tomorrow: follow new tweeter, Primary teacher @d_wearne

23 hours ago       

Deb_Pope Debbie Pope 

@D_wearne Welcome to twitter from Mount Annan Christian College. Twitter is a great learning adventure!

24 Nov       

shhartley Shani Hartley 

RT @Steve_Collis: ooo let's make this go viral and he'll get a lovely surprise tomorrow: follow new tweeter, Primary teacher @d_wearne

24 Nov       

Steve_Collis Steve Collis 

So excited by this plan!! Everyone follow @d_wearne, say hi, and retweet! He'll wake up with this wonderful surprise! He SO deserves it!

24 Nov       

Grey_Grommet Old dog new tricks 

@D_Wearne Hey Dan, Mal Green here ... welcome to the Twitter-verse ... your life has changed forever!

24 Nov       

meaganrodda Meagan Rodda 

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@Steve_Collis @d_wearne welcome Dan. You'll find twitter invaluable to your teaching!

24 Nov       

andyjb andyjb 

@Steve_Collis @d_wearne #nbcs morning from a autumnal UK

24 Nov       

torkee torkee 

@D_wearne hello and welcome to twitter. You will learn a great deal here and connect with many wise, witty & winsome educators.

24 Nov       

Steve_Collis Steve Collis 

ooo let's make this go viral and he'll get a lovely surprise tomorrow: follow new tweeter, Primary teacher @d_wearne PLEASE RT

24 Nov       

aliceleung Alice Leung 

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@Steve_Collis welcome @d_wearne :)

24 Nov       

woojm Jacqueline Woodley 

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@Steve_Collis another one from your school? wow. welcome@d_wearne you are in good company1

24 Nov       

Steve_Collis Steve Collis 

please can you give a warm welcome to my colleague @d_wearne, innovative teacher of younglings at #nbcs. He is keen to get a PLN happening!

24 Nov       

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cervus Basti Hirsch ッ 

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@rethinklearn Hearty welcome on twitter from Berlin, dear unbeknowst #scil teacher @D_wearne!