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Communicating and Connecting With Social Media (An Excerpt)

A Principal's Reflections

The book is entitled Communicating & Connecting With Social Media: Essentials for Principals and will be available from Solution Tree on May 19, 2011 Using Twitter to Build Your School’s Brand The good news is that open-communication practices in a social media world don’t have to be intimidating.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

These faculty members also may struggle to juggle the demands of the professorship with family commitments, raising children, service to practitioners, a growing social media presence, and innovation in realms that most postsecondary institutions fail to value. This second path would be me, of course.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers. Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role. 2011, Nurmi et al., Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

2011) Evolving the Virtual School Library, Part 1: Deconstructing My Own Interface. For more inspiration, check out these posts: We Are Teachers: Teachers are Creating Virtual Bitmoji Classrooms Bitmoji Classroom Tutorials (Jenny Murphy) How to Create a Virtual Bitmoji Scene in Google Slides or PowerPoints (Shana Ramin). Valenza, J.K.

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Rethinking Balance

The Principal of Change

” George Couros, primarily from 2007-2017. ” I started focusing more on my health, spent less time on social media, cut out as much negativity as possible and concentrate on people that would lift me up. “Balance is stupid.” That was me. I started to rethink the notion of “balance.”

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Here's a Neat Infographic on 'The History of the Hashtag'

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According to the infographic, Chris Messina first suggested using hashtags for Twitter groups in 2007. Tumblr followed later that year, Instagram started using hashtags in 2010, Google Plus hopped on the bandwagon in 2011, and Flickr barely beat out Facebook to avoid last place in 2013.

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Exploring medical technologies

Learning with 'e's

He had read some of my previous papers, and was interested in seeing if we could take our ideas forward in the emerging area of social media and medical education. The rest, as they say, is history.