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Unintended Benefits: Using Social Media to Learn and Build Relationships in Schools
About Me
Relationships
Goals of the presentation
• How we use social media in our school?
• Why we use social media in schools?
• Share some of the impact that it has had.
To share the following:
The How
My Journey
You are not into sharing?
http://georgecouros.ca
http://connectedprincipals.com
The School
The Why
The Obvious
Critical Thinking
CreativityCommunication
Collaboration
The ObviousDigital Literacies
(From National Council of Teachers of English)
Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes
Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information
Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
Bonus!
Enhanced Relationships
Creating Connections
Connected Principals
It’s fun!
The Impact
Identity Day
From: http://uowblogs.com/digckdlh705/files/2010/08/social-network.jpg
We need to become connectors
Contact Me
Email - gcouros@psd70.ab.caEmail - gec127@gmail.com
Twitter - @gcouros Blog - georgecouros.ca
References and Resources
Why Teachers Should Blog - http://davidwees.com/content/why-teachers-should-blog-helpful-flowchart
The Principal of Change - http://georgecouros.ca
Connected Principals - http://connectedprincipals.com
Forest Green School - http://forestgreenschool.ca
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