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Social Networking--Best Practices
* Be professional at ALL times--even on personal sites.
* Respect Student/Teacher Roles
* Manage your social networking sites
* The world is watching--everything can be copied and pasted
Professional
* Only allow students to access your social networking site if it is completely professional and only contains information for instructional purposes. DO NOT allow students to access your personal information or site.
* If you use a social networking site for instructional purposes, keep administrators and parents informed of your use.
* Maintain professional relationship.
* Even if your site is purely personal and no students are allowed to be your "friend" always weigh whether your posting puts your effectiveness as a teacher at risk.
* Never discuss students or colleagues
* Do not share any info about students on a personal social networking site.
* Don't post images that include students--anything that might be embarrassing
* Don't friend students on social networking sites
* Don't ask to be a student's friend on a social networking site
* If contacted by a student via a social networking site, INFORM the parent
* Do not use or allow derogatory, offensive, obscene, protected, or libelous comments
* Monitor your site regularly--remove postings of friends that are inappropriate
* Keep in mind that electronic communications are much easier to misinterpret
* Post only what the world to see--Private is not necessarily private--people can share
* Remember a friend can be downloaded and shared
* Remember that employers in many fields now Google applicants and will check a social networking site when making decisions
5 Things to start Social Networking
* Join a professional network
* Pick 5 blogs
* setup an iGoogle account
* comment on blogs become a part of the conversation
* Read tweets
Overview of Social Media--tech. used to turn communication into interactive dialogue
* Twitter
* Facebook
* Pinterest
Use Twitter to help connect with other educators.
#csdendorse
Facebook
1. Group Facebook page is different than a personal page. A page that people join for an organization, such as a school. Difference to group and fan page, you have to request an invite to join. The administrator has to allow people to join. Group pages are more private than fan page. Group settings can be very tight. Group settings may not show up in the feed. Group--post as "me" and can't post to Twitter.
2. Fan Page (official page)--open to the public. Anyone can see and "like" them. Doesn't mean you are "Friends." Have no access to personal information. Even if you don't like the organization, you can still see this page. When you "like," you receive news feeds from this organization. ANY one can respond to this page. The administrator can control the content or comments put on the Facebook fan page. So if you create a fan page, you have to stay on top of the site! You can set the settings to control certain words, photos, etc.
Can post to Twitter on Fan page.
3. Personal Page
Don't friend student's parents, so what can you as a teacher do? Create a group or fan page and direct parents to this page. Don't have access to personal page.
Using Facebook in the classroom--set up a group/fan page to send out homework reminders, reminders about special events, etc.
Blogs--
Focus on educational blogs--help us as educators and using technology
Log of thinks that have happened, lessons taught, etc.
Can follow and learn from key people that you might never be able to visit in person or at a conference.
Tonight's class focused on Twitter and Facebook. I am still trying to embrace Twitter, so this week it will be good to follow some people and hash tags to get the hang of it. As for Facebook, I finally understand fan (official) pages and groups. I follow a lot of fan pages for different businesses. Now I am thinking how I might be able to use Facebook as a tool for my students' parents to help them follow happenings in the class. I like the fan (official) page, so I could Twitter information out quickly, but the drawback is anyone could follow it. Another drawback is having to monitor yet another thing in an already busy day. I wonder if I could use my Weebly site to send out notices through Twitter. Going to have to check into this. Instead of creating another thing, I could better utilize a tool already created. As for blogging, I am really good at this, just in my crafting aspect of my life. Now I just need to utilize it better in my professional life. I think this will be pretty simple!
Social Networking--Best Practices
* Be professional at ALL times--even on personal sites.
* Respect Student/Teacher Roles
* Manage your social networking sites
* The world is watching--everything can be copied and pasted
Professional
* Only allow students to access your social networking site if it is completely professional and only contains information for instructional purposes. DO NOT allow students to access your personal information or site.
* If you use a social networking site for instructional purposes, keep administrators and parents informed of your use.
* Maintain professional relationship.
* Even if your site is purely personal and no students are allowed to be your "friend" always weigh whether your posting puts your effectiveness as a teacher at risk.
* Never discuss students or colleagues
* Do not share any info about students on a personal social networking site.
* Don't post images that include students--anything that might be embarrassing
* Don't friend students on social networking sites
* Don't ask to be a student's friend on a social networking site
* If contacted by a student via a social networking site, INFORM the parent
* Do not use or allow derogatory, offensive, obscene, protected, or libelous comments
* Monitor your site regularly--remove postings of friends that are inappropriate
* Keep in mind that electronic communications are much easier to misinterpret
* Post only what the world to see--Private is not necessarily private--people can share
* Remember a friend can be downloaded and shared
* Remember that employers in many fields now Google applicants and will check a social networking site when making decisions
5 Things to start Social Networking
* Join a professional network
* Pick 5 blogs
* setup an iGoogle account
* comment on blogs become a part of the conversation
* Read tweets
Overview of Social Media--tech. used to turn communication into interactive dialogue
Use Twitter to help connect with other educators.
#csdendorse
1. Group Facebook page is different than a personal page. A page that people join for an organization, such as a school. Difference to group and fan page, you have to request an invite to join. The administrator has to allow people to join. Group pages are more private than fan page. Group settings can be very tight. Group settings may not show up in the feed. Group--post as "me" and can't post to Twitter.
2. Fan Page (official page)--open to the public. Anyone can see and "like" them. Doesn't mean you are "Friends." Have no access to personal information. Even if you don't like the organization, you can still see this page. When you "like," you receive news feeds from this organization. ANY one can respond to this page. The administrator can control the content or comments put on the Facebook fan page. So if you create a fan page, you have to stay on top of the site! You can set the settings to control certain words, photos, etc.
Can post to Twitter on Fan page.
3. Personal Page
Don't friend student's parents, so what can you as a teacher do? Create a group or fan page and direct parents to this page. Don't have access to personal page.
Using Facebook in the classroom--set up a group/fan page to send out homework reminders, reminders about special events, etc.
Blogs--
Focus on educational blogs--help us as educators and using technology
Log of thinks that have happened, lessons taught, etc.
Can follow and learn from key people that you might never be able to visit in person or at a conference.
Tonight's class focused on Twitter and Facebook. I am still trying to embrace Twitter, so this week it will be good to follow some people and hash tags to get the hang of it. As for Facebook, I finally understand fan (official) pages and groups. I follow a lot of fan pages for different businesses. Now I am thinking how I might be able to use Facebook as a tool for my students' parents to help them follow happenings in the class. I like the fan (official) page, so I could Twitter information out quickly, but the drawback is anyone could follow it. Another drawback is having to monitor yet another thing in an already busy day. I wonder if I could use my Weebly site to send out notices through Twitter. Going to have to check into this. Instead of creating another thing, I could better utilize a tool already created. As for blogging, I am really good at this, just in my crafting aspect of my life. Now I just need to utilize it better in my professional life. I think this will be pretty simple!