Improving your professional skills by using Social Media

Benefits• High portability &

accessibility

• Disperses information quickly

• Promotes community formation

• Promotes and enhances dialogue

Threats• Promotes distraction

• Reflects a loss of control over information

• Challenges traditional systems and ideals

• Requires new systems of organisation and makes old systems obsolete

The Printed Book

Blogging

It is true that many former boys’ schools have taken in girls. However,

whatever their protestations to the contrary, it is invariably due to economic pressures that…converting from single-sex to co-education…was the way to

go if you are struggling to fill places…we believe that educating

boys separately is best for their educational development.

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Tips for blogging

• Passion - the driving force

• Audience - they write with a particular audience in mind

• Issues - what issues do you want to address?

Tips for blogging• Passion - the

driving force

• Audience - they write with a particular audience in mind

• Issues - key things they tackle

• http://bit.ly/SdwGXp

• http://bit.ly/1lJjemA

• http://bit.ly/1gi9Lol

Using Twitter

140 characters

LinksPhotos

What’s happening?

Compose a tweetSearch for a person

or hashtag

Send a Direct Message

Following

• Follow people who provide the information you are interested in.

• Follow people who are ‘curators’ - they share lots of interesting information.

Direct Message

• A message that is only visible to the sender and the recipient - similar to a text message

• This message can be shared!

Hashtags and searches

#

#UKEdchat

#SLTchat#pedagoo

#edtech

#ipaded

#engchat

Replying so everyone else can see

• Use a ‘.’ before the name of the tweeter to ensure that everyone else can see the conversation

• ‘.@berkhamstedsch your website it terrible’

Retweets/RTs

• Sharing content that has already been tweeted.

• Equals amplification.

• Equals ‘liking’.

• Retweets may be seen as approval - be careful!

HT/Hat Tip

• Recognising the source of a previous tweet/piece of information.

• ‘Via @berkhamstedsch’ would also be acceptable.

MT = modified tweet

• Use if you have changed the tweet in terms of length.

Sign up

• Go to www.twitter.com and sign up.

• Check your email to verify your account.

• Send your first tweet using #berkhamstedcpd as the hashtag