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5 reasons to use Twitter for geography teaching and learning

May 12, 2015February 16, 2016Oxford Geography Team
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I was a relative late-comer to Twitter: I set up a personal account in 2011 really just to see what all the fuss was about. Reading tweets from celebrities and comedians was of limited interest to me personally but it was through following newspapers, journalists and current affairs programmes that I realised just how many […]

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