Building Social Media For Educators Final Presentation Bill Ryan

1. Bill Ryan 7/8th Grade Science TeacherColonial Middle School Social Media For Educators Summer 2011

2. Which tool have you found most useful? Delecious.com I feel this is a great way to organize all my web bookmarks. The best feature is the search feature with specific tags. As a mobile teacher, moving from classroom to classroom, it is great way to have all my bookmarks anywhere I go in my school; not just my home computer. It also allows my colleges to review my bookmarks and share between us. Animoto.com It is great for creating short video presentations. Extremely user friendly Kids can even use this to create short presentations for class projects.

4. Twitter is just like a status update on Facebook, but then I realized that twitter could be so much more.

5. I am now using Twitter to follow prominent educators to see what they are think and what they are working on.

6. I have also began to follow many news organizations like the Times Herald Newspaper. They tweet the local news every hour on the spot.

7. My twitter account is found at:

9. Google Plus / LinkedIn I began with GoolePlus for my PLN. I found that it has many great features. My favorite feature is creating circles. This allows you to group people in specific categories that you can follow. One downside that I discovered is that it is extremely difficult to find people you know, or to find specific categories of people. https://plus.google.com/ LinkedIn was a great site for finding people in your field of study. It seams like a great networking tool. It seams to be tailored to the business world but it also has many education values. I was able to find many of my past coworkers and friends from college. I will continue to use LinkedIn in my future endeavors. LinkedIn

10. Animoto.comThis is an awesome website and I plan to utilize this site on my first day introduction! I am going to have the students complete a classification presentation using this site. I will be upgrading to the Animoto pro if my school does not already have a subscription. This is a tool I feel my students will love to use to create 21st century projects. First Day Of School Video

11. Thank you for the opportunity to create so many wonderful connections. Bill Ryan Colonial Middle School