Post on 10-May-2015
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Social Media for School Administrators
Bill Carozza, Principal of Harold Martin School, Hopkinton, NH
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?
Agenda The need for Web 2.0 defined
The Top Tech Tools
Heading toward change
Resources for further study and exploration
Q and A
Resources Nearly everything we talk about is located
at: http://wcarozza.wikispaces.com/
Check out Slideshare at: http://www.slideshare.net/wcarozza
What is the makeup of our group?
Questions from you before we begin…
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.
A Vision of K-12 Students Today
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)?
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.
What is Web 2.0?
Web 1.0 Static web pages
Using search engines
Surfing the web
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
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
Technology initiatives have to improve upon
the instructional, curricular, or
assessment practices we already value. (B.
Carozza)
Want to be overwhelme
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Best Online Collaboration Tools according to Robin Good
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
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)
Tech Tools…to get you started
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
Collaborative Writing/Google Docs, Wikis
Social Bookmarking
Delicious Using Tags instead of folders to save web
sites. Having the ability to share sites with others.
SCREENCASTS
Google Docs Google Doc video
Bill’s Google Docs
Etherpad
WikisBest site: Wikispaces
Will Richardson’s Web 2.0 Wiki
Trapped on an escalator
What’s needed: ICT Literacy
Technical skills
Content generation skills
Research skills
Media Literacy
Online safety
Moving your school forward
Administrator Perspectives on Web 2.0
Recent study from the CoSN (Consortium for School Networking) on Admin Perspectives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Q and A
Resources Links for this session: http://
wcarozza.wikispaces.com/