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Social media for schools: a guide to Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest

Social media for schools: a guide to Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest
• For advice on e-safety in schools, click here The use of social media in education continues to be something of a hot topic with arguments both for and against. So I carried out a small survey of 27 teaching professionals in order to create a baseline of understanding into the use (or not) of social networking in schools, and also any concerns over some of the e-safety risks. The full survey results can be found here. There are many uses of social media in education - below are just a few of the ways they can be effectively used. Facebook • Using Facebook as a 'broadcast' account. Inspiration: University of Gloucestershire - This is a Facebook Page from my old university. Cambridge University - Another good example. Twitter • Twitter, like Facebook, is also being used as a broadcast account. Risca Community Comprehensive - A great example of an active school Twitter feed. Clevedon School - Another great example of an active feed. iClevedon - This is an account from the Clevedon again.

The Hierarchy of Professional Development Needs « It’s July and we are learning. A month usually reserved for family trips and “honey-do” lists has brought something different for our district: professional development. The fact that we are doing professional development in July, while unique to us, isn’t a new concept in educational training. However, what makes this professional development different is that rather than having the usual amount of no-shows or malcontents, we are over-capacity with enthusiasm. And more want to come. Did I mention this is a 3-day training? What makes teachers want to take a break from a beach trips or finally tiling that living room floor? For the second time this summer myself and fellow trainer Tim Yenca have embarked teachers on a 3-day learning expedition called the “Eanes Apple Core Academy”. 1. Yes, at the academy we celebrate failure so much that when it happens everyone cheers “Woooo!!” 2. 3. This one takes the most amount of work, but has some of the biggest pay-off. 4. Feed me maybe? 5.

Who’s Sharing What – The State of Social Sharing in 2013 It’s been a while since our friends from WebHostingBuzz released their last infographic, but they’re back! Now they’re discussing the latest trends in social sharing: the ecosystem gets busier and busier, and now everybody seems to share (and overshare) stuff all day within their social graph. They zoomed out as much as possible for us to be able to see the whole picture: the state of social sharing at the beginning of 2013 and everything you need to know about its eight major players. Click here to view full size image.

Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge - Seven Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice In a new book, Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge, the authors offer a practical guide to making knowledge work inside an organization. In this excerpt, the authors detail seven design principles for cultivating communities, everything from "design for evolution" to "combine familiarly and excitement." by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder Seven principles for cultivating communities of practice In Silicon Valley, a community of circuit designers meets for a lively debate about the merits of two different designs developed by one of the participants. Because communities of practice are voluntary, what makes them successful over time is their ability to generate enough excitement, relevance, and value to attract and engage members. How do you design for aliveness? Design for evolution. 1. The dynamic nature of communities is key to their evolution. 2. 3. A large portion of community members are peripheral and rarely participate. 4.

10 Awesome Twitter Analytics and Visualization Tools Recently Twitter rolled out their native analytics platform for all users and now you can get some quality data about your tweets directly from Twitter. After researching over a thousand Twitter Tools for the Twitter Tools Book I came across many Twitter analytics and visualization tools. These Twitter tools were designed to add value by presenting a different way to visualize or analyze your tweets, the people in your network, and the tweets from the people in your network. Many tools tried to add value and failed. At least they tried. The following tools, however, stand out in my mind as exceptional or entertaining and I recommend you check them out if you want to analyze and visualize your activity on Twitter. 1. TweepsMap is an excellent Twitter tool for both analyzing and visualizing your Twitter network. As it’s name suggests it does this by showing you how your followers are distributed on a map, in terms of percentages. You can see the distribution of my followers below. Unique. 2.

Leaders Leading iPad Programs I can across this article today from EmergingEdTech and it immediately resonated with me. We have been struggling with this exact situation in schools in our own region. Whenever you talk to teachers, especially those that have some first hand experience of iPad use in the classroom, this is one of the first things they say to you. Real change in schools needs to come from the top. Paikalla, mutta ei läsnä - some heikentää etenkin nuorten keskittymiskykyä Nykymaailmassa on vaikea löytää hetkiä ilman ärsykkeitä. Älypuhelin piippaa tekstiviestejä ja Facebook-viestejä, vähän väliä on tarkistettava onko joku kommentoinut omia ajatuksia tai kuvia ja katsottava mitä kaverit ovat maailman tilasta kommentoineet. Tämä heikentää etenkin nuorten keskittymistä olennaiseen, sanoo nuorisopsykiatrian ja lastenneurologian erikoislääkäri Pertti Rintahaka. - Varmasti se hajottaa keskittymistä, kun olet tekemässä vaikkapa matematiikan tehtäviä ja kännykkä soi vieressä, telkkarista tuleekin hyvä musiikkivideo, ja tehtävä häviää hetkessä mielestä ja homma pitäisi aloittaa alusta. Some syö yöunet Rintahaan mukaan keskittymisvaikeudet eivät sinänsä ole lisääntyneet, mutta nykymeno vaatii keskittymistä huomattavasti enemmän kuin muutama vuosikymmen sitten. - Keskittymiskyky ei ole todennäköisesti muuttunut, mutta se joutuu jakautumaan niin moneen eri alueeseen: on koulu, sosiaalinen media, perhe, kaverit jne. Netti poikki viimeistään yhdeksältä

Five Digital Literacy Professional Development Strategies Professional Development | Feature Five Digital Literacy Professional Development Strategies By Bridget McCrea08/07/12 Discussing digital literacy as a way to locate, understand, organize, evaluate, and create information using digital technology is one thing, but putting the concept into motion in the college classroom isn’t always easy. Here are five simple professional development strategies that schools can use to help faculty effectively teach and use digital literacy in today’s classroom: First, discard all assumptions about the "digital natives." About the Author Bridget McCrea is a business and technology writer in Clearwater, FL.

Sosiaalinen media on uusi keino koulukiusaamiselle Koti, koulu ja kaverit kuuluvat nuoren keskeisiin sosiaalisiin ympäristöihin. Nykyään myös sosiaalisella medialla voi olla suuri merkitys nuoren elämässä. Professori Kaisa Aunola Jyväskylän yliopiston psykologian laitokselta kertoo, että tuoreissa tutkimuksissa on havaittu etenkin nuorten tyttöjen itsetunnon heikkenemistä. - Nuorten, 15-17 -vuotiaiden tyttöjen kohdalla on joidenkin tutkimusten mukaan havaittu itsetunnon heikkenemistä. Taustalla vaikuttavat ehkä nykyajan kauneusihanteet ja sosiaalinen media, Aunola sanoo. Aunola kuitenkin haluaa korostaa, että sosiaalisen median ja itsetunnon laskun yhteyttä ei ole tutkittu, eikä siitä siis ole tieteellistä näyttöä. Paineet ulkonäöstä tuntuvat hänen mukaansa lisääntyneen sosiaalisen median kuten Facebookin myötä. - Nuorilla on paineita siitä, että pitää olla tietyn näköinen. Koulukiusaaminen on tiedetty merkittäväksi tekijäksi nuoren itsetunnon alentajana jo pitkään. Sosiaalisessa mediassa voi kasvaa vääristynyt kuva omasta itsestä.

Stealth mentoring I was looking for any previous post I’d made about stealth mentoring, so I could refer to it in a post I was writing, and I couldn’t find it. It’s a concept I refer to often (and have to give credit to my colleague Jay Cross who inspired the thought), so here’s my obligatory place holder. When someone is thinking and learning ‘out loud’, e.g. putting their deeper reflections on line via, say, a blog (er, like this one, recursively), they’re allowing you to look at where and how their thinking is going. When they also are leaving a trail of what they think is interesting (e.g. by pointing to things on Twitter or leaving bookmarks at a social bookmarking site), you can put together what’s interesting to them and what their resulting thoughts are, and start seeing the trajectory of their thinking and learning. In formal learning, we can think of modeling behavior and cognitive annotation, the processes covered in Cognitive Apprenticeship as a development process.

Näin käytät Twitteriä ja Vine-sovellusta UPDATE 26022013 How I use social media for my professional development This has been a common theme to many of the presentations, workshops, webinars and seminars that I have been asked to do over the last few years, but however many times I try to present on this subject I never really feel that I get the message across as clearly and persuasively as I would like. The issue of how we use social media for our own development as teachers and as digitally skilled individuals, is one that I believe is of vital importance though, not just because it can enable us to keep developing as teachers through the content, ideas, resources and above all people it gives us access to, but also because the way use digital media for our own development should guide and influence the way we use it with our students and build their digital literacies and communication skills. So here it is. This my own attempt to outline my digital media learning experience, or at least part of it. I’ll split this into 3 sections which I’ll call Information in My Netvibes Feeds Information out

4 Twitter Tools Every Teacher should Know about Twitter is a powerful educational social networking website that has a huge potential for teachers professional development. Twitter is also ideal as a PLN where you get to connect with other educators from all around the globe and exchange teaching and learning materials with them. Building a PLN, however, requires making acquaintances with similar like-minded teachers and also developing your list of followers; but once you have such a solid PLN problems of maintaining it and staying updated with what others tweet become a tricky challenge. 1- Paper.l This is one of my favorite web tools that I check regularly. 2- Tweetedtimes

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