Post on 16-Apr-2017
The Social School
The Revolution
Courtesy: Social Media Revolution 2012 - Brandshout - Peterborough UK
What is Social Media?
• Social media includes web-based and mobile technologies used to turn communication into interactive dialogue. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content."[1] Social media is media for social interaction as a super-set beyond social communication. Enabled by ubiquitously accessible and scalable communication techniques, social media has substantially changed the way organizations, communities, and individuals communicate.[2]
What is social media, really?
Technology
Tools Creation
Conversation
Social Media
The species of social mediaSocial Networking•Facebook•Twitter•LinkedIn•Google +
Curation Sites•Pinterest•Storify•Paper.li
Social Bookmarking•Digg•StumbleUpon•Reddit•Delicious
Blogs•Wordpress•TypePad•Tumblr•Blogger
Wikis•Wikipedia•Catawiki•Ekopedia•Geo-wiki
Photo and Video Sharing•Flickr•Photobucket•YouTube•Vimeo
Presentation Sharing•Slideshare.net•Scribd•Issuu
Geolocation•Gowalla•Foursquare•Google Latitude
You Online
• Social networking websites can become an online image of your career and accomplishments• If you’re an artist, you will put your best work in a gallery
You Online
• Social networking websites can become an online image of your career and accomplishments• If you’re an artist, you will put your best work in a gallery
• Social media can expand your professional network• You can create working relationships with professionals from around solely through
networking online
You Online
• Social networking websites can become an online image of your career and accomplishments• If you’re an artist, you will put your best work in a gallery
• Social media can expand your professional network• You can create working relationships with professionals from around solely through
networking online
• Everything has the potential of being mentioned on Facebook, Tweeted or uploaded to YouTube. • Whether it’s true or not – it can stay online forever.
Your Classroom Online
• Make all of your important classroom projects available online• Allows access to parents • Gives your students pride in their accomplishments• Helps students understand the scope of online content
• EMSB is in the process of re-launching all of their websites• Efficient communication between school and parents• Decreases paper waste
Our Responsibility to Privacy
• The photo release form:• Permission for images ONLY• Not for: names, classrooms, personal information• Example: Honor Roll – you need specific parental permission to post each name
• Why?• It is the law in Quebec• Divorced families, custody battles, domestic violence• Online predators
Using social media in the classroom
Classroom or Teacher Blogs
• More and more teachers are connecting with students and other teachers using online blogs
Classroom or Teacher Blogs
• Teachers are connecting with students online using blogs
• Blogs are surprisingly easy to use:• They require minimum technical knowledge, are quickly and easily created and
maintained. • Flexible in design• Accessible via home or library computers.
Classroom or Teacher Blogs
• Teachers are connecting with students online using blogs
• Blogs are surprisingly easy to use:• They require minimum technical knowledge, are quickly and easily created and
maintained. • Flexible in design• Accessible via home or library computers.
• Create a classroom blog:• Students can contribute and comment in a safe environment.• Possibility to moderate comments and restrict access
How to Do it
• Create an account for your class on kidblog.org or edublogs.org
• Blogs can be used for:• A project• A subject (Art or History)• Or to communicate
• Be prepared to maintain this blog. Don’t create a cobweblog!
• When finished with it – delete it!
Make it Social
• Add your students as contributors to the blog, so they can create and comment on posts.
• Posts are not always just text, embed interesting videos and pictures.
• Remember, it isn’t social media unless you can have a conversation
Promote Reading Through Bookcasting
Have your students create a video or audio book report about their favourite book
How to do it
• Students can record a video of themselves reading their book report using a smartphone, flipvideo camera or digital video camera.
• Then the files were processed through Windows Movie Maker to add sounds, titles, and pictures
• The finished Bookcasts can be uploaded to the school website, blog or video sharing website.
Making it Social
• Upload videos to YouTube or Vimeo and encourage your students to share it on social networking sites.
• You can submit your podcasts to the iTunes Store, by publishing them on a podcast hosting platform like PodBean.com (not accessible through EMSB)
• Encourage your students to start an online conversation with other students about their book.
Use Skype to Learn About Different Cultures
Silvia Tolisano, a Spanish and English teacher in California uses Skype to visit schools around the world and create international links with native speakers as part of her Around The World With 80 Schools project.
Silvia Skyping with Students
How to Do it
• Open an account at Skype Education
• Choose to participate in an existing project or create your own. • Hint: Collections allows you to choose Culture Club if you want to get involved with
other classrooms around the world
• Alternatively you can connect with another classroom within the EMSB
Making it Social
• HOW IS THIS NOT SOCIAL??
• You can record the Skype session and upload it for parents and students to view at home.
• Embed the video on your blog and ask students to comment on it. Make sure to reply to their comments too.
Learning Through Social Curatorship
Create a virtual pin board using Pinterest to engage students in a class project
How to do it
• Search the internet and find reputable websites and pictures on the topic(s)of choice.
• Pin these websites to your Pinterest board
Making it social
• Invite students to peruse your Pinterest board.
• Ask your students to choose an idea from your pins as the basis of their project
• Older students can create their own Pinterest board to collaborate on group projects with other students.
Other Ideas• Make literature real. Have students create a Facebook page or blog for a
character from literature you are studying.
• Use Twitter to teach journalism. Have students use Twitter to report news in 140 characters or less to practice communicating important information succinctly.
• Share interesting websites. Both students and instructors can share interesting websites related to class topics via social media.
• Guest lecturers. Have guest lecturers visit the classroom through Skype if they are located too far away to come in person.
• Inclusion. Students who may have to be out of the classroom due to special needs or illness can be connected to the class remotely and stay a part of the community.
We want to hear what you have done
Tell us what you have already done in the classroom using social media
In Closing
• Social media is not a trend.
• Social networking has an educational value; more so if we teach our students how valuable these tools are when used appropriately.
• It is our responsibility as educators to sensitize and educate students to this new reality.
• Schools need to provide guidance and information to parents on internet safety.
• School boards need to provide guidance and information to schools on internet safety.
Any Questions?
Sources• http://kevinmcintosh.com/• www.educationworld.com• www.wikipedia.org• http://shownd.com/• https://about.me/• http://montrealgirlgeeks.com/• https://www.recordedfuture.com/• http://www.sciencefix.com/• http://history30.edublogs.org/• http://mrslevysfirstgradeclass.blogspot.ca/• http://kidblog.org/EMSBTestClass/• http://aussietripandrea.blogspot.ca/• http://vimeo.com/• http://www.youtube.com/
• http://kidblog.org/home.php• http://www.podbean.com/• http://education.skype.com/• http://pinterest.com/• http://
pinterest.com/ingrid_stassi/language-arts-inspiration/
• http://pinterest.com/andreaditomaso/my-fantasy-favourites/