Unintended Benefits

Unintended Benefits: Using Social Media to Learn and Build Relationships in Schools

About Me

Relationships

Goals of the presentation

• How we use social media in our school?

• Why we use social media in schools?

• Share some of the impact that it has had.

To share the following:

The How

My Journey

You are not into sharing?

http://georgecouros.ca

http://connectedprincipals.com

The School

The Why

The Obvious

Critical Thinking

CreativityCommunication

Collaboration

The ObviousDigital Literacies

(From National Council of Teachers of English)

Develop proficiency with the tools of technology

Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally

Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes

Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information

Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts

Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

Bonus!

Enhanced Relationships

Creating Connections

Connected Principals

It’s fun!

The Impact

Identity Day

From: http://uowblogs.com/digckdlh705/files/2010/08/social-network.jpg

We need to become connectors

Contact Me

Email - gcouros@psd70.ab.caEmail - gec127@gmail.com

Twitter - @gcouros Blog - georgecouros.ca

References and Resources

Why Teachers Should Blog - http://davidwees.com/content/why-teachers-should-blog-helpful-flowchart

The Principal of Change - http://georgecouros.ca

Connected Principals - http://connectedprincipals.com

Forest Green School - http://forestgreenschool.ca