Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 13, 2015

This one is about some general guidelines and principles for school districts to consider as they formulate their social media policies. And then they usually create policy documents that hector and admonish youth and educators about all of the things they shouldn’t do. Humans are inherently social and we make meaning together. Are educators courageous enough to be social media renegades? My newest article is out.

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The Web20Classroom

MAY 9, 2012

Over the past few weeks I have been working on a project for Edutopia and Facebook Education to develop a set of steps to follow when developing social media guidelines in your school or district. This all came about from my presentation at ASCD this year where I outlined how we created a document that promoted the use of social media by our teachers and our students but also gave tips on responsible use. I have embedded the document below for download.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2019

The drawbacks of social media are well-documented—like anonymous trolls posting negative comments just to spark controversy. However, said Jamie Knowles, Senior Manager of Educator Professional Learning Programs at Common Sense Media, social media also has the ability to help users share their stories and shed a positive light on their activities. Student misuse: Common Sense Media’s research shows students report social media can be a distraction.

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The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Last week I laid out 3 Untapped Social Media Resources for Teachers. This week we take a look at how to leverage social networks for students. She is right in the heart of the age range for kids who use social media the most (13-18 yrs old). Our conversations give me a sense of how kids are using social media and her thoughts on using it for learning, or even if there is a place for it. Document their lives and share it with others.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2019

The drawbacks of social media are well-documented—like anonymous trolls posting negative comments just to spark controversy—and social media in school is no different. However, says Jamie Knowles, Senior Manager of Educator Professional Learning Programs at Common Sense Media, social media also has the ability to help users share their stories and shed a positive light on their activities.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2018

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators. The go-to method for guiding this practice is setting up district social media guidelines or policies.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 29, 2015

What role does social media have in developing collaborative relationships? My first answer is that social media provides the venue for people to get connected. Thinking about other social media tools, Facebook is primarily where I connect with family and local educators, but little collaboration takes place. And while I haven't used Instagram much for educational purposes, it too is primarily for documenting and sharing.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The massive fight, it turned out, stemmed from a long-simmering rivalry between groups of girls, and had been largely instigated and planned through a steady stream of posts on social media apps like Twitter, Instagram, Kik and Snapchat. And in the past few years, the increased use of social media has added a new wrinkle to the problem as virtual disputes between students turn physical. Most often, those revelations are about social media conflicts, she said.

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Indiana Jen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Social media played a significant role for my community as we prepared for the storm and as we began to pick up the pieces afterwards. Miami-Dade county employed all of the social media networks to get their messages out there: Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope were how I got my information about evacuation orders, emergency supplies, and more. Just an FYI, the best place to store your important documents and valuables is in water tight, plastic containers.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 1, 2016

Common Sense recently honored Nza-Ari Khepra with the 2016 Social Change Catalyst Award for her work as a founder of the youth-led violence awareness organization Project Orange Tree and the Wear Orange campaign. After the Common Sense Media Awards ceremony, we had the opportunity to speak with Khepra about Wear Orange and about the ways social media can be a catalyst for positive social change. " Social media was a flame behind everything we wanted to do.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators. The go-to method for guiding this practice is setting up district social media guidelines or policies.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2011

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. These two services have been broadly em­braced across all social and technical profiles and make it possible to reach large audiences in the blink of an eye.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 1, 2016

Common Sense recently honored Nza-Ari Khepra with the 2016 Social Change Catalyst Award for her work as a founder of the youth-led violence awareness organization Project Orange Tree and the Wear Orange campaign. After the Common Sense Media Awards ceremony, we had the opportunity to speak with Khepra about Wear Orange and about the ways social media can be a catalyst for positive social change. " Social media was a flame behind everything we wanted to do.

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The Web20Classroom

MARCH 26, 2012

Our topic was creating and crafting social media policies for schools and districts. Here is our presentation : And here is our resource document : And the video we created to help educators understand the importance of the use of Social Media in Education: The message here is a simple one. Earlier today I had the honor and pleasure of presenting at the Annual Conference for ASCD.

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Gaggle Speaks

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Increasingly, there’s an expectation from the courts that document files and even social media also get retained. We see headlines almost every week about a harassment case that came from the use of social media in the workplace. When asked about archiving social media, our response typically centers on the content. However, with social media, it comes down to policy and what’s considered a record that you should retain.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 24, 2013

Looks like more and more cities are following the lead of NYC and embracing the use of social media in schools. Most recently the Chicago Public Schools has put together toolkit of resources —video, documents, and links to other sites—for principals and staff who want to use social media to connect with their school communities. It highlights creative and effective social media use by schools with a focus on Twitter and Facebook.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators. The go-to method for guiding this practice is setting up district social media guidelines or policies.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators. The go-to method for guiding this practice is setting up district social media guidelines or policies.

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Learning in Hand

AUGUST 17, 2017

G Suite apps include Google Documents , Sheets , Slides , and Drawings. Shareable links can be used for publishing a document or for collaboratively editing a document. Documents are only accessible by you (the owner) unless you turn link sharing on. One way to turn on link sharing is by clicking the Share button in an open document. Once you have the shareable link copied, you can paste it into a document, webpage, link shortener, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

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Indiana Jen

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Marti has a great take on the latest New York Times Social Media Policy. Media! Today, October 13, 2017, the New York Times introduced its new social media policy for people who work in the Times newsroom. Not only is it interesting to read — it may will also become a useful document for educators to share with students. Parenting!

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Mistakengoal.com

AUGUST 10, 2016

In this post I’ll discuss how we’re approaching the new outcome of “responsible use of the internet and other social media” that the faculty have added to the course. Given the constraints within which we are working, we constructed two student learning outcomes: Describe principles and specific examples of ways the Internet and social media can be used to both help and harm others. Social Networking Services

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I also use Google to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. Canva is my favorite tool for creating images for my blog and social media. While I rely on Google Docs for many documents, I still use the paid version of Evernote for notes, journaling, projects, and planning. I also love the Evernote Scannable app on my iPhone for scanning documents on the fly. The post 15 EPIC Tools I Can’t Live Without! appeared first on Shake Up Learning.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Find more tips for engaging parents in my presentation, Engaging Parents with Technology and Social Media. Simply Circle is a web tool and app teachers and parents can use to post updates and announcements, share pictures and upload documents. Effective Technology Integration Events Holidays 2017 Digital Calendar parent engagement parent teacher communication parents and social media

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Dont Hate the Hashtag: a Social Media Revolution for Librarians View more presentations from gwyneth jones. Don''t Hate the Hashtag: A Social Media Revolution for School Librarians Having a web presence, keeping hip with cultural literacy, transliteracy, and building strong personal learning networks is not just an extra burden, but a necessity for the modern teacher librarian. Hamilton CASL comic life dont hate the hashtag erik qualman facebook social media twitter

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ASIDE

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

From text messages to social media, children and adults of all ages are engaging like never before with the written word. Instead, high quality comments on blogs and social media should create a dialogue that furthers the colloquy and deepens the learning. Thoughtful comments in social media should add information, incorporate links, or most importantly, ask questions. Students are writing more than ever before.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Instantly scan and score with any mobile, desktop or document camera. I think we’ve learned how to use social media in just a really positive way, and learned to communicate and build a global audience, and shared our learning, and learned with others. How Vickie Morgado Uses Social Media in Her Classroom. So now you had your second graders and now this year your third graders using social media. Realistically, they will be on social media.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Talk about documentation (if you need it for something). Productivity Social Media Tech Tips ToolsProductivity that Works. You can be more productive on your iPhone or smartphone. My home screen as been pretty consistent for the last few years. With this tutorial, I’ll take you through the apps I use, how they work together, and some quick tips on productivity with your iPhone. If you’re just starting out or want some productivity ideas, this post is for you.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2018

The importance of reading to education success is well-documented. Economics Games/Simulations History Math Problem solving Science Social media Websites lists play summerWith summer fast approaching all over the Northern Hemisphere, kids are eager for time away from teachers, textbooks, and To-do lists. In Ireland, Italy, Greece, Russia, and other Eurasian nations, summer vacation lasts about three months.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 1, 2018

As a faculty member who has an outsized social media presence (53,000+ Twitter followers; video series with 100+ million views; one of the more visible education blogs in the world, etc.), That new protocol or resource document that you just created? Image credit: Social media class , mkhmarketing. Blogging Communication Higher Education Social Media blogging communication higher ed social media

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 3, 2017

Wander about, pay attention to your surroundings, and try to document at least one interesting thing that you saw on that walk by taking a picture of it or by writing about it in a notebook, or both. There’s so many things that you can document about, every single type of teaching. All Grades Blogging Get Connected (PLN Building) Social Media Teachers Thought Leader Thursday Writing

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 25, 2015

It’s sometimes a struggle to get students to carefully read course documents. As I prepared to teach our Technical Writing and Communication course this fall, I decided I wanted to emphasize document design and economy of language, two areas in which I felt my previous classes could improve. Piktochart is a web-based app that allows you to design infographics and other image-heavy documents and publications. Course materials are technical documents, not literary works.

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ASIDE

JANUARY 23, 2016

Source: Spencer Brown Does our obsession with technology and documentation go too far? privacy social media social networking technologyThis powerful, short film titled “ The Boy With The Camera Face ” by filmmaker Spencer Brown is a satirical fairy tale about a boy born with a camera instead of a head who cannot escape the lens. From the moment of his birth, everything about his life is recorded. Does this sound like our students, or maybe you?

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

MARCH 17, 2013

Reader Alert: this is a very specific post aimed at media specialists who are members of the SIGMS group of the ISTE 2013 Conference Ning. ? ? ? ? ? SIGMS March Madness Topic 3: Media and the School Librarian The research confirms what we already knew: social media is very much a part of our students’ lives. YALSA recognizes that social media facilitates learning in schools and libraries. Embedder of social media lessons in projects?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 24, 2015

If there was ever a doubt that education twitter chats were kind of a big deal, this television guide-style document should set things straight. Featured Social Media Technology pd Professional development social media twitterThe Best Twitter Chat For Teachers In 2015. by TeachThought Staff. Twitter chats aren’t just “things,” but have evolved into fully-functioning professional development for teachers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 23, 2015

These reflections and social media tips will help bloggers covering ISTE. How to Use Handwriting in Google Documents [link] via @coolcatteacher Powered By the Tweet This Plugin Tweet This. I’m creating a mailing list for people who want social media sharing tips. I plan to send 1-2 updates a month for those of you interested in social media tips. Social Media Tech Tips

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