My first state presentation in 2011. Twitter and Facebook in the Classroom.

1. TWITTER/FACEBOOK IN
THE CLASSROOM
Social networking in education?

2. WHY?
Why?

3. Social Media is out there.

4. Data
⦿ Facebook-over 500 million users
⦿ Twitter-180 million unique visitors each
month

5. HOW?
How?

6. WHY NOT?
Why not?

7. Are you on Facebook? Do you
Tweet?
⦿ The journey

8. How can I apply these tools to my
classroom?
⦿ Parent/teacher communication
⦿ Miniblog approach
⦿ Age Appropriateness
⦿ Collaboration with other classrooms
⦿ Networking
⦿ More ideas?

9. WHY NOT?
Why not?

10. Fear-the unknown
⦿ Remove personal
from professional
⦿ There are students
and parents out
there. They want to
friend me on
Facebook, what do I
do?
⦿ Should I friend
them?
⦿ No!*

11. How do I remove the personal
from professional?
⦿ Offer alternative for families so they
don’t have to friend you.
⦿ Invite them to “like” a class Facebook
page
⦿ Or to follow your class on Twitter?

12. Parent/Teacher Communication
⦿ How was school today?
⦿ What did you do in school today?
⦿ Shutterfly is used in my son’s preschool,
why not ask the questions of Facebook
and Twitter to my class?
⦿ Student generated
⦿ Parent feedback and comments are
welcome

13. The Question-Facebook
⦿ What’s on your
mind?

14. The Question-Twitter
⦿ What’s happening?

15. Asking the question of students
⦿ What will you share?

16. Parents Appreciate
⦿ Snow day field trip
reminder
⦿ Animoto videos
⦿ Jing how-to’s

17. Miniblog Approach
⦿ Twitter is a miniblog
⦿ 140 characters
⦿ Power in writing
⦿ Shallow vs. deep
thoughts

18. Age Appropriateness
⦿ 13 is the magic number for age required
by both sites
⦿ Safety, safety, safety
⦿ Umbrella rules of my classroom apply to
our online presence as well
● Be safe
● Be respectful and responsible
● Be flexible and have fun!

19. More on safety

20. Collaboration with other
Classrooms
⦿ Other classes are out there
⦿ How can we collaborate?
● Compare and contrast (themes)
● Data collection
● Get answers and input from other students
or classes
● Your ideas?

21. Networking
⦿ Professional
organizations
⦿ Businesses
⦿ Educational Leaders
⦿ Bloggers

22. SO HOW DO I DO THIS FOR
MY CLASS ANYWAY?

23. Facebook-Getting Started
⦿ Need an account
⦿ Options
● Groups
● Pages
○ Official*
○ Community
⦿ Settings*
⦿ Getting the word out
⦿ Mrs. Beaudrie’s
Class

35. Twitter-Getting Started
⦿ Need an account
⦿ User Name is
important
⦿ @mrsbeaudrie
⦿ Settings
⦿ Now what?
● Searching helps
○ @, RT, DM
○ Co-Tweet
○ TwitPic

36. KISS
⦿ Keep It Simple,
Stupid!
⦿ Using e-mail and
mobile devices to
our advantage

37. Facebook and Twitter-Bumps in the road
⦿ Slow start is okay
⦿ More parents seem
to be on Facebook
already
⦿ No Facebook
access from school
⦿ When do I have time
for this?

38. Resources
⦿ http://help.twitter.com/forums/10771/entries/77641
⦿ http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
⦿ http://mashable.com/guidebook/facebook/
⦿ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/14/twitter-user-statistics-
r_n_537992.html
⦿ http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/ctypopls.htm
⦿ http://www.facebook.com/
⦿ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
⦿ http://www.coolcatteacher.com/
⦿ http://www.shutterfly.com/
⦿ http://animoto.com/
⦿ http://www.techsmith.com/jing/