CPD session for teachers at Berkhamsted School on the 20th May 2014 on using Social Media for professional development.

1. Improving your
professional skills by
using Social Media

3. Benefits
• High portability &
accessibility
• Disperses
information quickly
• Promotes
community
formation
• Promotes and
enhances dialogue

4. Threats
• Promotes distraction
• Reflects a loss of
control over
information
• Challenges traditional
systems and ideals
• Requires new systems
of organisation and
makes old systems
obsolete

5. The Printed Book

7. Blogging

8. It is true that many former boys’
schools have taken in girls. However,
whatever their protestations to the
contrary, it is invariably due to economic
pressures that…converting from single-
sex to co-education…was the way to
go if you are struggling to fill
places…we believe that educating
boys separately is best for their
educational development.

11. Collaborate
Connect
Reflect
Get feedback

12. Tips for blogging
• Passion - the driving force
• Audience - they write with a particular audience
in mind
• Issues - what issues do you want to address?

13. Tips for blogging
• Passion - the
driving force
• Audience - they
write with a
particular
audience in mind
• Issues - key
things they
tackle
• http://bit.ly/
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• http://bit.ly/
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• http://bit.ly/
1gi9Lol

15. Using Twitter

16. 140 characters
Links
Photos
What’s happening?

21. Compose a tweet
Search for a person
or hashtag
Send a Direct Message

22. Following
• Follow people who provide the information you
are interested in.
• Follow people who are ‘curators’ - they share lots
of interesting information.

24. Direct Message
• A message that is only visible to the sender and
the recipient - similar to a text message
• This message can be shared!

26. Hashtags and searches
#

28. #UKEdchat
#SLTchat
#pedagoo
#edtech
#ipaded
#engchat

29. Replying so everyone
else can see
• Use a ‘.’ before the name of the tweeter to
ensure that everyone else can see the
conversation
• ‘.@berkhamstedsch your website it
terrible’

30. Retweets/RTs
• Sharing content that has already been
tweeted.
• Equals amplification.
• Equals ‘liking’.
• Retweets may be seen as approval - be
careful!

33. HT/Hat Tip
• Recognising the source of a previous tweet/
piece of information.
• ‘Via @berkhamstedsch’ would also be
acceptable.

34. MT = modified tweet
• Use if you have changed the tweet in terms
of length.

35. Sign up
• Go to www.twitter.com and sign up.
• Check your email to verify your account.
• Send your first tweet using #berkhamstedcpd as
the hashtag