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Building Social MediaFor Educators-J. Ken Harmer

+Successes with this course

Expanding my professional and personal network

Learning about and creating new ideas in my field….

…which assisted me with preparing long-term goals

Helping me better understand the technology exposed to my students and opportunities presented to them

+Challenges

Being exposed which invited unwanted followers and much more spam email

Certain websites are blocked in our school district

My colleagues and employer have access to my personal life

My opinions may be used against me for current or future employment

+Most useful tool?

+And the winner is…Twitter!

Twitter gave me the most access to my professional interests.

It wasn't a lot of information to process and gave me useful links every day

TweetDeck would help me organize what topic I was interested in on any specific day

+Delicious

Personal note:

Last year our school was closed due to mold. We were split into three locations within the district. We will move back into our newly renovated school in September 2017.

Since I teach in all three buildings everyday, delicious.com has been extremely helpful in organizing the websites I use for instruction.

Twitter is currently the most useful for me because I can stay in touch with local, national and international trends and changes in education and my field of music

+Pro’s and Con’s of Moodle and Online Learning

I enjoy going at my pace.

I get stressed with deadlines

I use Moodle in my classroom

I have trouble finding time to create a page worth using in my classroom

It supplements the Intrapersonal learner in me

It hinders the Interpersonal learner in me

+ My current collections of work:Twitter, Google+, Classroom 2.0, LinkedIn

+Works in progress…Wix

I will use this site regularly with my students, but most sites I want them to access are blocked by my district.

I can spend time this summer creating my site for next school year including:o Audio recordingso Current news stories in

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