This document discusses social media and its role in education. It begins with defining social media as forms of online communication through which users share information. It then discusses how teachers should approach social media professionally and avoid sharing personal details, while students commonly use platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. The document also provides resources for educators on teaching students safe social media usage and gives examples of how social media can be incorporated into the classroom through platforms like Edmodo, Schoology and YouTube.

1. DC and Social Media
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2. Warm-up
 How many hours a day do you spend on
Social Media sites?

3. Essential Question
 What is Social Media?
 What should your Social Media usage look like
as an educator?
 How do students use Social Media?
 How can you incorporate Social Media in your
classroom?

4. Agenda
 Introduction to Social Media
 Teachers and Social Media
 Students and Social Media
 Social Media in Education

5. Social Media Evolution
O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi34kVUEL
5c

6. What is Social Media?
 Forms of electronic communication (as Web sites
for social networking and microblogging) through
which users create online communities to share
information, ideas, personal messages, and other
content (as videos)
"Social Media." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-
Webster, n.d. Web. 19 May 2014.
<http://www.merriam-
webster.com/dictionary/social media>.

7. History of Social Media
O http://content.time.c
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r/0,32068,71092118
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8. Teachers and Social Media
 Ethical vs. Not ethical
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMJM-
SQjUBc
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9utDYBY
OdaE
 http://time.com/1573/oops-kindergarten-teacher-
accidentally-posts-class-photo-to-tinder/
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ8CiHFqhF8

9. O http://www.edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/social-
media-students-vs.-teachers-v2BC437915E02D.jpg

10. Student Usage of Social Media
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Instagram
 Vine
 Tumblr
 Snapchat
 Whisper
 Omegle
 Kik
 Hot or Not
 YikYak
 Devintart
 Ask.fm
 ETC

11. Student Usage of Social Media
 http://www.wdrb.com/story/24477033/jcps-explicit-
pictures-of-students-posted-on-instagram

12. Student Usage of Social Media
O Common Sense
Media
O iSafe
http://isafe.org/wp/
O Easy Tech
http://www.learning
.com/easytech/
O Everfi
http://www.everfi.co
m/ignition
O CES Website
JCPS
http://ces.jefferson
.kyschools.us/
O Give students
handouts or
direction on where
to locate them
online

13. Social Media Usage in
Education
 Edmodo
 Schoology
 Youtube
 Wikispaces
 ETC.

14. Exit Slip
O Create a new page in
your Wiki called “DC
and Social Media”
O Type a two paragraph
reflection on your social
media usage as an
educator and potential
educator.
O Create an Infographic
www.piktochart.com
that communicates safe
social media usage to
students. Insert link in
your Wiki.
O Join the class Edmodo
www.edmodo.com and
embed your infographic.
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