Live Blogging: Social Media for School Leaders

Presenter: Bill Carozza

Why utilize Social Media?  Connect to your Community, Connect to your Staff, Develop Professionally.

• Today's Meet
• Poll Everywhere

The internet is about relationships  Technology initiatives have to improve upon the  instructional, curricular, or assessment practices we  already have..

Robin Good  -- Collaboration Tools

Screencasts with Screenr --  Take  video  tutorials from your desktop and post to your website.

Blogging: Begins a cycle of collaboration, requires reflection and greater understanding, and build your school brand.

TWITTER
Cybraryman - Hashtag library  http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html

Youtube Video of the Week!

Kony 2012 has received a great deal of attention in the news, including local coverage at Sweet Home High School.  While this video is much longer than the videos we normally post for Video of the Week, it's thought provoking and worth the watch for intermediate and secondary students.

ITSC 2012: Getting Social with Students

Getting Social with Students
Presented by Jeff Utecht

• We live in a world where there is no boundary between our work life and our social life. 
• Individuals have a need to be connected.  
• We know there's no way we can tell kids they can't bring cell phones to school - almost 70% of text messages during the school day are between parent and child, not kid to kid.
• We all feel the pressure to stay connected, to stay up to date, to get things done.

How do we start using this medium with kids?

ITSC 2012: Video to Share

This came from my last session and it was very interesting.  I think it is a very powerful video for a non-techy person to see.  It also makes an impression on us techy people also... It comes from Canada but it is still very interesting.