Your SmartPhone Publicist

Leveraging the Global Connection Device in Your Pocket

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TAKE PICTURES OF EVERYTHINGStudent projects - Use of your space - Displays - Big changes - Events

Take pictures of everything.Document student projects, student and faculty use of your space, displays, big changes, and special events.

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SHARE PHOTOSaround campus Make flyers and signs, use your schools electronic bulletin board. on social media Get the word out on Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram or other platforms.

Share photos around campus - Make flyers and signs, use your schools electronic bulletin board. on social media - Get the word out on Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram or other platforms.3

Automatic ArchivingSocial media will keep your stuff (possibly forever, so be careful)

Your materials are automatically archived if you upload them to social media.

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ALWAYS ON

Pocketable classroom channel

Micro-assignments

Open over weekends and even holidays

Student to teacher AND student to student

Social media like Twitter becomes a venue for turning in short, interactive assignments over weekends and even holidays. Its also an always-on channel for communication between student and teacher as well as student to student.

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Be AdventurousMake posters - Give students ownership - Social media annual report

If youre adventurous you can take on larger projects.Make posters promoting events students can look forward to. Involve your students in the production process so they have ownership of whats happening. Let them take photos and send out notifications using their own accounts.Use photos for your annual report. Heck, make your annual report on a social media platform. 6

BENEFITS

Foster a sense of communityConversation between classesConcepts in contextLearning outside the classroomHelping instructors keep course content up-to-date. Student input helps curate sources for the class.

Benefits of Using Social Media to Publicize Your (and your students) WorkPutting concepts in context. Social media can help take learning out of the classroom so students see the concepts they're talking about in class as things that are important in their lives.Helping instructors keep course content up-to-date. Student input helps curate sources for the class.Fostering a sense of community both in and out of the classroom. You start an ongoing conversation that happens between classes.7

My Favorite Teachers Use Social MediaKatie Benmar http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/04/22/my-favorite-teachers-use-social-media-a.html

One math teacher posts homework assignments and things that she taught that day on Instagram. When kids are checking their feeds, reminders inevitably show up on the screen. The best teachers I've ever had used technology to enhance learning, including using Facebook pages for planned online chats about books we read in class. The thing is, participating in a discussion with other people didn't require any less thought about the book than writing a book report. It actually made me think about it and understand it better because I was listening and responding to other people's opinions that were backed up with evidence. I hope that educators will consider experimenting more with technology and social media in their classrooms in ways that will be intellectually challenging.

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Tipsseparate academic accounts for students class hashtags (#maristSTEAM, #ConnScience)classroom accounts (@AncientCiv1, @AncientCiv3)

Have students set up accounts for academic purposes. Students who use personal accounts usually discover they dont like mixing school life with personal. Set up a class hashtag--#maristSTEAM. Set up classroom accounts that you and students can use together. You open communication with your students, but also have other options such as competition between classes and group conversations with experts in your subject area. 9

10 Ideas (for you and your students)Current Events and Community NewsHighlight great student workBackchannelGet Outside the Classroom

Go Global!

10 Ideas (for you and your students)Current Events and Community News:Tell everyone whats happening in your part of the school. Post breaking news relevant to the campus or even the neighborhood.Highlight great student work:Create a channel or board for the best stuff from your class. Students will feel proud when theyre featured, and parents will love the digital glimpse into the classroom.Backchannel:Use Twitter in class to get a sense of what students are thinking about during lectures through backchannel communication.Get Outside the Classroom:Connect to other classrooms, other schools, and even professionals on projects. Get peer to peer, and expert feedback on student projects.Go Global! Arrange exchanges with teachers around the world. Pair kids up with partners in other classes to exchange pictures of their daily life, teach the other class one thing about your country each week, etc. Join a group like the Global Classroom Project to build and promote global collaboration project ideas (assists in finding collaboration partners and facilitating enriching international exchanges).

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10 Ideas (for you and your students)

Class status updates

Telemetry

Lights, Camera

Vocabulary:

Copyright and Digital Rights

Class status updates:Students post pictures of themselves with explanations of what theyre doing so parents and the rest of the school can see whats happening in class. Can be on the whole-class profile or student channels. Promotes your students achievements, gives daily updates on projects and shares class experiences. Telemetry:Gather and share data collected during field work or travel. Photos, audio, video, temperature, rainfall, steps walked, celebrity sightings...Lights, Camera Host a show on YouTube using smartphone video. Vocabulary:Assign vocab hashtags to students (#sanguine, #conifer, #pulchritudinous) and ask them to post photos to go with those tags.Copyright and Digital RightsWhen social media recycles so much content, its easy for students to believe that all material on the Internet is free to use as they see fit. This is a good opportunity to discuss copyright and responsible use of information.

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Awesome People Using Social MediaReba Gordon, LibrarianTrinity Preparatory School, FLOne of the great things that has come out of using Twitter has been interaction with YA authors. Students LOVE it when an author likes, comments, or retweets one of my tweets about them. I've also teamed up with an English teacher to promote events at our school through Twitter as well.

@gordon_reba https://twitter.com/gordon_reba, #TPSreads and #TPSlibrary

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Awesome People Using Social MediaDavid Gallin-Parisi, LibrarianSt. Anthony Catholic High School, TXWhen I'm working on my library annual report and I need pictures, I use the library's instagram as a photo resource. I'm able to look back through the year and pick and choose representative pics. Also many of the pics on my school's instagram are taken by students. That takes away any "staged" feelings of the photos.

https://www.instagram.com/sachs_insta/

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Awesome People Using Social MediaHanna Howe, LibrarianSolebury School, PAThe more I post pictures of students doing things in the library or holding books, the more followers I get. I love doing book face Friday pictures. I check out the New York Times On this Day page to see if there are any events I can turn into a post. Thats how I ended up taking a picture of some baseball players holding The Natural on Malamuds birthday. Those kids, who would have never followed the library on their own, started following on that day. Magic!

http://Instagram.com/solebury_library

Awesome People Using Social MediaJohn Hardison, Studio 113 ClassroomEast Hall High School, GABy creating a flexible class where literature creatively comes to life on a stage with students as the stars, Studio 113 focuses heavily on creativity, interactive structures, and student choices. Through original learning structures and a shared classroom concept, students are inspired to connect literature with their own talents and interests. John Hardison promotes Studio 113 activities on Twitter and the EHHS Youtube channel. (Yeah, he uses actual video cameras, but you can do this with smartphones.)

https://twitter.com/Studio113_EHHShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNRwjVRW7iWxlFZxPoCg5yQ

Awesome People Using Social MediaBeth Koon, Awesome Arts ChannelRay Marsh Elementary, KS When my class sizes grew and my students had trouble gathering around the table to see, I started pre-recording demonstrations. Now every student could clearly see and hear all of the directions. With the lights low and the kids in their seats it is almost like magic the way that everyone pays such close attention. I can also pause or rewind if there is a disruption. These instructional video demos fast-forward though the process so students could see an entire project produced in a matter of a few minutes. I know that all students are receiving the same directions, even if they are late or absent.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwih1AgFULVWhrY5ZF5U4ew

People Using Social MediaMark SamplePractical Advice for Teaching with Twitter Chronicle of Higher Education Social media isnt social unless people know about it. Your class Twitter list or class hashtag needs to be highly visible for your students. Provide explicit instructions on accessing the classs Twitter activity.

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/practical-advice-for-teaching-with-twitter/26416