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Transcript What is this “Social Media” thing about? Social Media Guidelines for Schools  http://thinkingmachine.pbworks.com/Think-Social-Media-Guidelines  http://socialmediaguidelines.pbworks.com/          Faculty & Staff Guidelines Student Guidelines Parent Guidelines District Recommended Social Media.

What is this “Social Media” thing about?
Social Media Guidelines for Schools
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http://socialmediaguidelines.pbworks.com/
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Faculty & Staff Guidelines
Student Guidelines
Parent Guidelines
District Recommended Social Media Sites
Examples of Social Media Permission Forms
 Social Media Guidelines is a collaborative wiki project. All information and materials,
unless otherwise indicated, are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
School District Blogging/Social Media Policies
 Academy of Discovery Online Code
 Arapahoe High School Blogging Policy
 East Lothian Council Self-publishing and Social Media
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Guidelines: Pupils
East Lothian CouncilSelf-publishing and Social Media Guidelines:
Staff
Goochland Countty Public Schools AUP
- Acceptable and Unacceptable Use Policies for Publishing
Content
Kennett Consolidated School District AUP - Includes Blogging
Policy
Laramie County School District 2 - Safe Blogging Policy
Maine School Admimistration District #22 Weblogs Terms of Use
 http://delicious.com/klmontgomery/social_media
Social Media
 EDITED SHORT LIST
 Top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites
 Top 10 Social Networking Sites by Market
 Share of Visits [August
 13 Social Networking Sites You Should Be Using
 1 Facebook
 2 Twitter
 3 LinkedIn
 4 Pinterest
 5 MySpace
 6 Google Plus+
 7 DeviantArt
 8 LiveJournal
 9| Tagged
 10 Orkut
 11 CafeMom
 12 Ning
 13 | Meetup
 14 | myLife
 15 | Multiply
 16 YouTube
 17 Foursquare
 18 Tumblr
 19 Reddit
 20 StumbleUpon
 21 GetGlue
 22 Instagram
 23 Path
Social Seniors Flock to Facebook
 Social network service focuses on
building online communities
 People who share interests
 Exploring the interests of others
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 Web based
 Variety of ways to interact
Micro-Blogging
 What is it?
 Some micro-blogging sites are:
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Instagram
 YouTube
 Tumblr
 Google+
 Snapchat
 ooVoo
 pinterest
 WorldStuffer
 Friendster
 Plurk
Facebook in Education
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Facebook or Fakebook?
Try the New
Fakebook for
Creating Fake
Facebook Pages
http://www.classtools.net/FB/home-page
Applications for Education
 Creating a fake Facebook profile could be a fun way
for students to organize information that they know
and or find about a famous person.
 You could also have students create profiles for
characters in a novel that they are reading for your
literature course.
 Take a look at the Fakebook profile gallery for more
ideas about using Fakebook in your classroom.
Fakebook is a tool created by Russel Tarr which
allows users to create unreal Facebook profiles.
Fakebook can be used to chart the plot of a book,
the development of a character, a series of
historical events, the debates and relationships
between people, etc.
 Create a fictional social profile at
www.classtools.net.
 Create free educational games and tools in flash.
Russel Tarr has just released a new
version of Fakebook.
 Tool for creating fake Facebook profiles.
 Latest version of Fakebook makes it easy to create a
page by just clicking on a field and entering as
much information as you like.
 Profile picture field you can enter a name and
Fakebook will search for images to use.
 For example, if you create a Fakebook page about
George Washington Fakebook will search for
pictures of George Washington.
http://www.classtools.net/fb/11/M4Lcj8k
ClassTools.net
classtools.net/
 Create free educational games and tools in flash. ...
Fakebook. Create a fictional social profile. Tarr's
Toolbox. Scores of teaching ideas and resources! 3D
Gallery ... This tool checks if an essay uses the most
important key terms for a topic.
So, what is
Twitter
- Rank 2 : 450,500,000
 Twitter invites users to sign up
 Free online account
 Find friends and colleagues
 Follow
 Publish (send) short updates
 “tweets,” of 140 or fewer characters
Networking Tool Lucy Gray,University of Chicago
 spread the word about upcoming events
 promote her seminars and workshops
 share new ideas and best practices
 follow ed-tech experts
 learn about new tools from educators
Twitter sounds fun, but how is it educational?
 Collaboration with colleagues
 Creating a your personal brand.
 Learning to be concise.
 Personifying characters on Twitter.
 Teaching executives about social media
 Communication with parents
 Infinite classroom activities
 For lecture notes
https://twitter.com/hdiblasi
Twittering with Colleagues
 You have learned a lot this semester! Did you tell all
your colleagues about it?
 new uses of technology
 lesson plan ideas for your curriculum
 discovery of new resources
 Can you think of a way of using Twitter with colleagues
in your grade/content?
Tweets with Parents
 Parents can follow you from the Twitter Web site, their mobile
phones, or instant messaging. Think of all the things you could
Twitter!
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tonight’s homework
a new long term project
school or classroom supplies needed
a new topic/unit
enrichment suggestions
quick survey/opinion about something relevant to the lesson or
class discussion
 Can you think of a way of using Twitter with parents in your
grade/content?
Twittering with Students
 introducing a topic/lesson
 take a quick poll/fact collection from your network
 access the prior knowledge of your network
 type a keyword in Twitterfall and read what people are saying
about it
 activities
 Twitterfall a short story
 Twitter a dialogue between two figures or characters
 follow another class who is studying the same topic
 communicate with experts
 Twitter topical facts to students whenever
Twittering with Students (con’d)
 long term projects
 journals/research logs/learning logs
 analysis of a celebrity Twitter page
 develop and maintain a Twitter page- character , figure,
“how to,” etc.
 closure
 what was learned during a lesson
 reflection
 Can you think of a way of using Twitter with students
in your grade/content?
How to Get Started
 Go to www.Twitter.com
 Think of a user name and create and account
 Twitter searches your e-mail contacts to create your
network
 Search for others you want to follow and add them
 Invite others to follow you
 You can set your preferences so that you follow
everyone who follows you
 Don’t worry! You can block anyone you don’t want to
follow you.
Suggested Resources
 Twenty-Five Interesting Ways of Using Twitter in the
Classroom
 Twitter for Academia
 How to Use Twitter in the Classroom (video)
Ways to Teach With Twitter
 100 Ways to Teach With Twitter - Emerging EdTech
 WeAreTeachers: 6 Creative Ways to Teach Students
 60 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom
 25 Ways Teachers Can Integrate Social Media Into
Education
 How To Teach World History Using Twitter
 25 ways to teach with Twitter
 by Sonja Cole
http://www.techlearning.com/article/20896
 Educators Test the Limits of Twitter Microblogging
Tool
 http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2008/06/24/01twitter_web.h02.html
Did you learn how to use Twitter?
 Using the chat feature of our electronic classroom,
write a Twitter message to a department member at
your school telling him or her what you learned today
about using Twitter in the classroom. Remember that
a Twitter is limited to 140 characters !