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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. See figure 1.1 for a visual.)

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What Schools Can Learn About Communication From the Vatican’s Former Social Media Chief

Edsurge

Two years later, Pope Benedict XVI made a Twitter account, which today claims nearly 18 million followers. When I arrived in the Vatican around 2007-2008, everything was beginning to happen with digital communications. Monsignor Tighe is now the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture in the Vatican. I was lucky.

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’15 The Year of Wearable

The Thinking Stick

2007: The Year of the Network (Can we say Twitter and Facebook). 2007: The Year of the Network (Can we say Twitter and Facebook). 2012: Mobile and Integration (Chromebooks, iPads, laptops, tablets, phablets, phones…yeah the list goes on and on). if you are wrong…nobody really cares. 2013: Opps….forgot

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Apple : “Apple iPad Sales to Schools Jump 32%, Selling 1M Tablets in Fiscal Q3 2017,” Edsurge reported in August. Microsoft Windows devices – again, that’s laptops and tablets – remained at about 22%.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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