Unintended Benefits

Unintended Beneﬁts: Using Social Media to Learn and Build Relationships in Schools

About Me

Relationships

Goals of the presentation To share the following: • How we use social media in our school? • Why we use social media in schools? • Share some of the impact that it has had.

The How

My Journey

You are not into sharing?

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The School

The Why

The Obvious Critical Thinking Collaboration Communication Creativity

The Obvious Digital 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

We need to become connectors From: http://uowblogs.com/digckdlh705/ﬁles/2010/08/social-network.jpg

Contact Me Email - gec127@gmail.com Email - gcouros@psd70.ab.ca 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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Unintended Benefits

by George Couros on Jan 08, 2011

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