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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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Navigating Social Media as a Parent

Tech Helpful

E-parenting is not an easy task. Recently I attended an e-parenting workshop at a local school here in Chattanooga and the speaker shared a great social media rating guide: This can be found at www.safesmartsocial.com. Follow your kids on social media. Look at their history. Don't be afraid to say no.

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#Internet4schools: Make Your Voice Heard

A Principal's Reflections

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering expanding Internet access in schools and we need your help telling them to vote “YES” to expanding E-rate in order to provide the nation’s students with the tools they need. I made the video above quickly using Instagram.

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Web Filtering: equally beneficial for your 5-year-old & 15-year-old

Securly

Web filtering is required by law, as long as schools wish to receive e-rate funding to supply their digital classrooms. Most students find web filtering to be unnecessarily inhibitive, citing that it blocks perfectly acceptable web pages due to one keyword or denies access to social media pages.

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Rating News Sources Can Help Limit the Spread of Misinformation

Educator Innovator

The problem of disinformation and propaganda misleading social media users was serious in 2016, continued unabated in 2018 and is expected to be even more severe in the coming 2020 election cycle in the U.S. A sample headline with a rating from experts, as shown in our experiment. Expert or user ratings? Kim et al.,

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

In our first installment of this podcast series last month, I shared the scene from a digital media course where I saw students watching sports highlights on YouTube during a lecture, shopping for beds on Facebook marketplace and playing video games on their iPhones as the professor did his thing on stage. I'll skip that class.

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Appy-Picking Month: Speech4Good

SpeechTechie

You can also share files to e-mail, Twitter, and Facebook from the Library. The Account menu allows you to log-in to Twitter or Facebook and shows a privacy policy. I understand that a user makes the choice to do so, but I do not see why anyone would ever want to share a confidential file with a social media site.

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