empowering students and parents with social media
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Empowering Students and
Parents Using Social Media
Director of Digital Content, Jewish Futures & Program Manager, DigitalJLearning Network
Get in touch! Email me at fgilder@jewishedproject.org or tweet me at @3rdSectorSocial
By Faigy Gilder
What is Social Media?
“forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)”
source: merriam-webster.com
Simply put…
Social Media is the latest development in our communications toolbox
When the Postcard Was First
Introduced, It Was Controversial
Why Use Social Media With
Students and Parents?
• Strength student voices
• Invite parents in to see and share
• Break down classroom walls
• Encourage real-time connecting & sharing
And most importantly: Our world is going social – shouldn’t we prepare our students for the real world?
The Foundations
Guiding principles for using social media to connect with the empower student and parent voices
Promote Digital Citizenship
source:
https://www.commonsensemedia.or
g/educators/elementary_poster
Be Authentic and Transparent
Mistakes Will Happen
• Embracing social media means releasing a certain level of control in favor of conversations and connections
• If something doesn’t go as planned, it’s ok!
source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/philwolff/3784133658/
Be Careful with Pictures
• Ask a school administrator if parents were sent a school media release at the beginning of the year
• If not, send one home with students for parents to sign
• If you can’t get permissions, make sure all outlets are private or that no kids faces are showing in pictures
Know Where Your Audience Is
Embrace the Importance of
Unplugging
• Online life should enhance offline life, not detract from it
• Encourage students to use their judgment about when and how they use technology
The Practice
Ideas and suggestions for using social media with students and parents in the real world
Keep a Class Blog
source: http://blogs.goaj.org/mrshamman/
Blogging is Great for Students!
source: http://www.theedublogger.com/2010/01/05/week-1-create-a-class-blog/
Create a Commenting Policy
Some Good Blogging Tools
Tweeting as a Class
You Never Know!
source:http://mslirenmansroom.blogspot.com/
Tweeting as a School
source: https://www.flickr.com/people/oggin/
Following Together
KQED’s DoNow
Here’s a breakdown of how Do Now works:
• Do Now activities are posted every Friday evening at kqed.org/donow.
• There’s a brief intro to the topic and a media resource that can be played directly on the website.
• At the top of the activity, there’s a question for students to respond to after they go through the intro and media resource to deepen the understanding of the topic.
• Students should then respond to the Do Now either in the comments section on the website or they can tweet their response (each student must create a Twitter account).
Learn more at http://blogs.kqed.org/education/about-do-now/
Facebook Groups
With Students
• Create events
• Share deadline reminders
• Students can ask questions, share resources
With Parents
• Share class updates
• Ask for input
• Send group messages for urgent needs
Grades 1-5
• Create a class account
• Students rotate leadership role
• Capture class activities
Grades 6-8
• Use their own accounts
• Share their class experiences with a class hashtag
• Create photo essays
• Record science experiment steps
Here are Some Fun Ways to Use
or
Online Office Hours
Study Buddies
source:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathycassidy/69
10720756
Meet Students Around the World
source:https://www.flickr.com/photos/superkim
bo/3121815835/
Get Amazing Guest Speakers
source:https://www.flickr.com/photos/superkim
bo/3121815835/
Using YouTube Together
Grades 1-5
• Create playlists for specific subjects
• Work together on a class video
Grades 6-8
• Personal vlogging
• Creating videos to teach fellow students
• Students create playlists
Experiment!
Try new things and have fun. This is a work in progress.
Resources for You
bit.ly/SMresourcesNov11
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