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Social Media in the Classroom TIC 2013

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Deb Henkes

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Guard your privacy

Protect your reputation

Nothing digital is private

Assume everyone is watching

Follow the Golden Rule

Watch the clock

Choose wisely

Don’t hide

Is it true?

Be smart and safe!

7 Ways Educators Can Use Facebook

1. Connect to students where they are at and embrace 21st Century Learning

2. Schedule learning & provide resources

3. Absent students stay in the loop

4. Promote good citizenship

5. Use Facebook's Groups and Pages features to communicate and collaborate

6. Connect with parents

7. Use as a PLN

Settings

  • Account Settings
  • General
  • Security
  • Apps
  • Privacy Settings

Facebook Boundries as an Educator

  • Regardless of what screen name you use you can be traced and identified.
  • Do NOT accept students as "friends".
  • Monitor postings from other "friends" and promptly remove postings or friends that are inappropriate.
  • Do not post comments about your job, colleagues, or students.
  • Stay away from personal information or references to things in your personal life such as references to sex, drinking, partying, etc.
  • Do not post photographs of you or your friends engaged in what could be considered inappropriate behavior, even if it is a joke.
  • Be cognizant of the "causes" you join and pages you promote. All of these create an image of you.

Alternatives to FB

  • Fakebook
  • Edmodo
  • Schoology
  • Moodle
  • Google Docs/Groups

Why use Twitter?

  • Engage students
  • Be aware of what students are doing
  • Following in a school environment
  • Creating PLN
  • Students are using it - their level
  • Up to minute updates on your class(es)
  • Positive promotion of technology as a tool #CRCSDeagles

Language of Twitter

  • a follow = person of interest OR could be YOU
  • a mention = @username
  • a retweet = RT @username
  • a hashtag = #topic of interest
  • a direct message = like an email - 1:1 convo
  • a URL shortner = tinyurl / bit.ly / goo.gl

Using Twitter with Students

  • creating collaborative haiku, poetry, story
  • upcoming assignments, tests and quizzes
  • students tweet real-time questions/thoughts during lecture
  • late starts - early dismissals
  • discussions about content
  • historical character tweets
  • activity promotion - sports, fundraisers, contest
  • study guide, key points, vocabulary - use of hashtag
  • constructive feedback, peer or teacher

Twitter Settings

  • Check privacy settings
  • privacy box
  • your username is what?
  • profile photo?
  • talk about work...
  • Who's following you?
  • Teacher account or private account?

Twitter Boundaries

  • Tweet info to students: include @principal and invite/inform parents.

  • Ask your principal to follow you!

  • Direct message with students???

  • Keep public and private separate !

  • Google yourself!

Alternatives:

  • Today's Meet
  • Padlet
  • Socrative
  • More....

b. "Harassment" and "bullying" shall be construed to mean any electronic, written, verbal, or physical act or conduct toward a student which is based on any actual or perceived trait or characteristic of the student and which creates an objectively hostile school environment.

From Iowa Code 280.28

What Can YOU Do?

  • Pay attention
  • Don't ignore it
  • When you see something - do something
  • Remain calm
  • Deal with students individually
  • Hold bystanders accountable
  • Listen
  • Get appropriate help
  • Additional training

Be Approachable!

5 Steps to Internet Safety

1. Stop

2. Screenshot

3. Block

4. Tell

5.Share

School Suspensions Discipline

  • Disruptive speech or actions (Tinker)
  • Lewd or vulgar speech or actions (Frasier)
  • School-sponsored speech or activities (Hazelwood)
  • Activities associated with illegal drug use (Morse)

Alternatives

  • Edmodo/Schoology
  • Google Voice
  • Celly
  • Remind 101

Wrap Up

  • Limit student access to your sites
  • NEVER discuss students or colleagues
  • If using a site for instructional purposes...
  • Do not ask to be a student's friend...
  • Monitor your site regularly and remove
  • Google yourself
  • Don't access site or other non-school sites with school equipment, time or with other school resources

People Search @Pipl

Google Yourself

Resources:

www.aea1.k12.ia.us

School Technology

Digital Citizenship/Cyberbullying

  • Amy's site
  • Deb's site
  • Google Form
  • Moodle courses

TIC

SnapChat

Instagram

http://padlet.com/wall/protected

Social Media Revolution 2013

Dealing with Sexting

  • Texting students?

Social Media in the Classroom

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly