Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Social Media | Posted on September 18, 2013
Brickflow is an app for making curated social media slideshows in seconds. Build memorable stories and collections with content from Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and more. It’s just like playing with Legos.
Internet Safety Cheat Sheet is a great guide for parents trying to maneuver the ins and outs of social media.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Social Media | Posted on August 16, 2013
How to Create Social Media Guidelines for Your School is an excellent article from Edutopia to help school administrators understand the great benefits versus challenge of social media.
Here is a nice collection of parent permission slips for technology use put together by Vicki Davis on Cool Cat Teacher blog. Several are excellent to modify for middle and high school students.
PLN Starter Guide LIvebinder has all the resources teachers and administrators need to start their own personal learning networks.
Powerful Learning Practices Network
Ongoing, job-embedded professional development for 21st Century educators
Built around social media and Web 2.0 tools – to keep you up to speed with the changing technology and what your students are using every day
Made up of intensive, organic, learner-directed, collaborative communities of practice and purposeful network connections
Focused on leveraging emerging technologies as tools for deep learning and principled change – this works whether you participate as an individual, in small teams, or as a school.
19 Pencils.Com is a site where teachers can (for free) share websites, games, quizzes, and more. You can even create a class web site.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Social Media | Posted on August 15, 2011
Top 20 Social Network Sites for Educators comes from the “Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero” blog and provides links to and descriptions of the major social network sites targeted toward education.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Google, Social Media | Posted on August 5, 2011
Larry Ferlazzo Best Resources for Learning about Google+
I am not sure I have time for another social networking site, but here’s some great advice and resources from Larry Ferlazzo’s blog on the topic.
Minigroup.Com
Minigroup is a completely private platform that lets you share the right stuff with the right people, without intrusion from strangers, friends-of-friends, or search engines, all from a single account. Use custom identities to share appropriate personal information with various groups.
23 Ways to Use Wallwisher in the Classroom is a great blog post on Innovation 3. You can access Wallwisher and set up a free account atwww.wallwisher.com.
40+ Free Premium Social Media Icon Sets To Spice Up Your Website from Edudemic Blog make it easy to link to your social network sites from any web site you manage.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Social Media, Twitter | Posted on April 14, 2011
5 Ways to Earn More Twitter Followers for your School is a nice article for those managing social media for your school or district.
Green Eggs & Facebook – 15 Social Media Tips from Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss really did know best and here’s the proof in these practical strategies for using social media.