Dai Barnes is Head of Academic and In-Curriculum ICT at St Benedict’s School, Ealing. He qualified as a teacher in 1995 and spent eighteen months as a supply teacher in a broad range of London schools. Hestarted work as a full-time ICT teacher at a secondary school where he was quickly promoted to Head of Department. Since then he has worked in schools with various ICT responsibilities, but using technology in his classroom only became brilliant after attending a MirandaMod where he started to develop his Personal Learning Network on Twitter and began participating in the EdTechRoundUp weekly podcasts. More information cxan be found on his google profile:
http://www.google.com/profiles/daibarnes

Here, Dai explains how and why he uses MindMeister to encourage his pupils to work collaboratively.

Using Mind Meister

You can follow Dai Barnes on Twitter: @daibarnes, or his blog.