The Power of Social Media for Educators 2.0

Dave Shortreed Greater Victoria SD 61

Greater Victoria School District 61 @mr_shortreed

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#sd61learn !

References: www.daveshortreed.com/social-media-for-educators

Where good ideas come from?

How are they improved/refined?

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http://sd61.mediacore.tv/media/where-good-ideas-come-from-by-steven-johnson

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• sharing stories/ideas

• raising awareness

• opening conversation

• bringing people together

Social media can be used for most for:

Industry of Relationships

Social media as a connector to ENHANCE face to face

relationships

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Community

Turn to your neighbour:

1. Who are your trusted advisors?

2. How often to you connect with them?

3. How did you meet them?

Teamwork

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Collaboration

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Making the district smaller Sharing leadership

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The Networked Teacher

http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/580

Digital Citizenship

What comes up when you google your name?

Are you defining it?

Social Media in Education

• Facebook for information to parents

• Twitter for Professional Learning Network for educators

• Instagram/Snapchat for sharing stories between students

Twitter as a Professional Learning Network

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• for developing professional learning networks

• for collaborating

• for sharing stories/resources

• for problem solving

• educational leadership

• modelling digital citizenship

• personalized headlines

Crowd SourcingNot one voice or one ‘expert’, but a filter to see and consider many voices on a topic

Personalized Learning Network, with headlines filtered by you

tailor to many topics - technology, self-regulation, numeracy, Literacy, Aboriginal education, social Responsibility, active learning, self regulation, Social Emotional learning, student inquiry, project based learning, innovative practice, anxiety in education, etc

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My Trusted Advisors in EdTech

Dr. Valerie Irvine, @_valeriei

George Couros, @gcouros

Dr. Alec Couros, @courosa

Chris Wejr, @Chriswejr

~10 schools on Twitter

~40 P/VP’s

~120 educators interacting on #sd61learn

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Twitter trends in GVSD

Building momentum as a district resource

Twitter is not

• to follow famous people

• the news, an unfiltered mess of a waste of time

• see what people are eating

• sunsets/sunrises

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Broadcast!

Turn to your neighbour: !

What innovative teaching practice do you see in your school? !

What headlines would you be interested in? http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-2575986601

“Education will change from the ground up…teachers as professionals doing great work and sharing it via social media” - Elisa Carlson @EMSCarlson #sd36learn

#bccurric, #bced, #bclearns

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Twitter 101

“Twitter can be used as a professional space to collaborate, share, and broadcast information”

!twitter.com

!Make an account right now if you don’t have one and

help each other

Tips for setting up a professional account

1. Use school district email address

2. Choose a professional username (ie- not @cooldude61)

3. Profile photo - crack the egg!

4. Description - how would you introduce yourself? #sd61learn position, school, mandate

5. Location - Victoria, BC

Time to Explore

10 Minutes

• Log into Twitter

• Re-evaluated your account

• chat to your neighbour about challenges moving forward with Twitter

Focusses your audience

Tailors your conversation

Focusses on a topic

Filters information and location

Examples:

#bccurric, #pbl, #sd61learn, #sd61slm, #bced, #bclearns, #anxietyined

Want to create a hashtag? Search, then start tweeting

ELG/PBL Grant Meeting sessions

Why hashtag?

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Hashtags

Replying/Favorites

@Handles

People who you want to credit

Connect with

Notify/Reply

• RT = Retweet- confirmed someones ideas and passed it to your followers

• MT= modified Tweet - slight change to the Tweet

RT and MT

Photos/LinksPhotos can tell a story - use a mobile device to attach photos easily

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Links- go to bitly.com

Time to Explore

10 Minutes

1. Look at #sd61learn. Search for others

2. #bccurric, #bclearns, #bced, #anxietyined, #srl61

3. What are you headlines?

Getting Started

• You can always delete a tweet

• Uncheck email notifications

• Check out my list for people to follow

• Ok to watch till you feel comfortable, but lead by example

• Any other advice?

Tips1. Balance Professional with Personal- how much would you share with

your class?

2. Think about who you follow - it is what you can control and they represent you

3. Don’t follow only like-minded people

4. Be careful with negativity

5. Follow #hashtags and @people instead of your feed

attend multiple conference presentations online simultaneously

no need to take notes at conferences - visit #bcssafall2013 for example

PlatformsiPhone and iPad- Mobile Twitter app

Computer - HootSuite/ Tweetdeck (saves columns)

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1. Sharing innovative strategies and news from your schools!

2. Educational articles that influence your thinking!3. Thoughts and quotes!4. Questions that will help you or your organization!5. Support others educators

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What you should tweet about

For Further Reading

daveshortreed.com/social-media-for-educators/

For relevant presentations, policies, educational articles

Tweet Me!

Time to Explore20 Minutes

1. Take a look at my lists to start to build your local PLN

@johngaiptman, @PatrickHDuncan , @mr_shortreed, @janineroy3

2. Look for authors/experts around the world like @dylanwiliam, @courosa, @gcouros

3. Teachers/admin on #sd61learn like @trev_mackenzie or @brad_cunningham or @VPGrizzly

Ticket out the door

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• What are you excited about?

• What did you learn today?

• Or tweet to #sd61learn

Thank you!