About us: Linda Hartley

Hi I am Linda Hartley, sometimes known as lindiop (twitter & del.icio.us) or LindaH (flickr) I am based in London and work on various educational projects including writing magazine articles, professional development and training with primary school (elementary) Teaching Assistants and other school staff.

I worked as a TA and Research Assistant in a Primary School for many years before moving into training and resources.I’m interested in blogs, wikis and social software in educational professional development, both formal and informal.

One of my main projects at the moment is developing resources for working with Teaching Assistants on my own wiki. I’ve been working hard this weekend on a page about Teaching Assistants training for ICT (technology)

I blog about informal learning, internet technology and action research at Acting to Improve . I also blog about Classroom Displays and Bulletin Boards and run the Classroom Displays group on Flickr.

I’ve been involved with Teachers2.0 ever since The Art Guy set it up and I find it a small but worthwhile community. Although I no longer work with children all the people I work with do. The community is invaluable for finding good resources but I’d like to see more discussions develop. Maybe this blog will help that to happen. It’s not as big as some of the Ning groups I’m involved in but I actually think that might be a strength! I mostly use the Classroom 2.0 community via twitter and del.icio.us. I’m intrigued to see what we do with this Wordpress blog