This is the Powerpoint for the TLC workshops for admnistrators.

1. Social Media for School Administrators Bill Carozza, Principal of Harold Martin School, Hopkinton, NH

2. Essential Questions for today What is Web 2.0? What is a PLN? What are some tech tools to get you started right away? How can a teacher or administrator be moved to embrace Web 2.0?

3. Agenda The need for Web 2.0 defined The Top Tech Tools Heading toward change Resources for further study and exploration Q and A

4. Resources Nearly everything we talk about is located at: http://wcarozza.wikispaces.com/ Check out Slideshareat: http://www.slideshare.net/wcarozza

5. What is the makeup of our group?

6. Questions from you before we begin…

9. Again…Will Richardson The most sweeping change in our relationship with the Internet may not be as much with the ability to publish as it is the ability to share and connect and create with many, many others of like minds and interests.

10. A Vision of K-12 Students Today

11. Impressions of video? True? Humbug? Is this what you see in schools? Is it a revolution in instruction or overblown by technologists (and perhaps corporations)?

12. So why utilize Web 2.0? It allows us to more efficiently change the world for our students. What choice do we have? Utilizing the strengths of our students.

13. What is Web 2.0?

14. Web 1.0 Static web pages Using search engines Surfing the web

15. Web 2.0 Web applications (as opposed to client or desktop based apps.) User interaction Facebook, Blogs, Twitter, Wikis Users focus on ideas, creativity, collaboration Technical knowhow-not as important No need to know computer programming, e.g. HTML

16. What are the tech trends making an impact of our lives as educators? Real time Internet Twitter, Facebook, Google Wave Way Too Much Content RSS readers Cloud Computing Web apps-Google Docs, .Mac The advent of Google Chrome Internet Entertainment Hulu, Boxee, Apple TV, Netflix’s Roku Technology Merging Smartphones, iPhone, Droid Amazon’s Kindle, future Apple Tablet? Personal Learning Networks

17. Technology initiatives have to improve upon the instructional, curricular, or assessment practices we already value. (B. Carozza)

18. Want to be overwhelmed? Best Online Collaboration Tools according to Robin Good

20. Educators need a PLN: …to find each other and mentors …to join groups and collaborate …to share evaluated resources …to have access to information …to reflect on the use of information

21. Web 2.0 Categories Aggregators (RSS newfeeders) Blogging Online Applications (Google Docs) Photo-sharing (Flickr, Picasa) Podcasting Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter) Video-sharing (You Tube)

22. Tech Tools …to get you started

23. Personal Learning Networks/Twitter

24. Twitter What is Twitter? A place where you can follow interesting people, companies or communities. Tap into opinions of the world. You can be that interesting person. Twitter in Plain English Desktop apps-Tweetie, Tweetdeck Resources

25. Video Sharing/You Tube/School Tube

26. Collaborative Writing/Google Docs, Wikis

27. Social Bookmarking Delicious Using Tags instead of folders to save web sites. Having the ability to share sites with others.

28. SCREENCASTS

29. Google Docs Google Doc video Bill’s Google Docs Etherpad

30. Wikis Best site: Wikispaces Will Richardson’s Web 2.0 Wiki

31. Trapped on an escalator

32. Blogging

33. RSS Readers/Google Reader, Bloglines

34. Photo Sharing/Flickr

35. Podcasting/Garageband and PodOMatic

36. Google Wave

37. The Digital Natives

38. What’s needed: ICT Literacy Technical skills Content generation skills Research skills Media Literacy Online safety

39. Moving your school forward

40. Administrator Perspectives on Web 2.0 Recent study from the CoSN (Consortium for School Networking) on Admin Perspectives.

41. Admin Priorities for Web 2.0 Keep students interested and engaged. Meet the needs of different learners. Develop critical thinking skills Develop student capabilities tat can’t be developed through traditional methods Provide alternative learning environments. Extend learning beyond the school day Prepare students to be lifelong learners.

42. More… 70% of schools ban social networking. 25% of districts have made no decision on Web 2.0. Majority believe that Web 2.0 tools have not been integrated into their district’s curriculum. The use of these tools remains the domain of individual pioneering classrooms.

43. Still more… 95% of district administrators say that Web 2.0 will require new type of training. 86% say that it will result in a blending between formal and informal learning. 79% say that schools should take full responsibility for modeling Web 2.0. Yet only 44% reported taking full responsibility for the restructuring of schools to accommodate Wed 2.0.

44. Strategies to move your school forward Get passionate yourself and get support. Find your supporters and feed them. Form a steering committee Provide copious amounts of support. Be sure to explain the vision. Make it as simple as possible Don’t bite off too much. Focus on using technology too be part of something they already do.

45. Q and A

46. Resources Links for this session: http://wcarozza.wikispaces.com/