My Social Media final presentation

1. Social Media in the
Classroom
Brandi Hamnett
Final Presentation

2. My PLN before this
course
• I had ZERO understanding of creating a social network
– not on facebook, never saw a tweet, never heard of
web 2.0…
• I was known by my friends and family as the person
who NEVER knows the latest news because I was so
the opposite of “in the know” – not on facebook,
twitter, etc.
• My PLN was chatting with another teacher –
something I often didn’t even do on a daily basis
• My circle was so small – home and classroom – and on
a good day, the teachers in my hallway/pod

3. Twitter
• This is a really
new concept
for me – I had
never even
read a Tweet
before
• I still feel a
little unsure
about
participation
• I think I’ll feel
better after I
observe for a
little while

4. Diigo
• I love to research, both
for personal and
professional purposes
• Diigo helps me organize
my bookmarks, make
notes, and access my
information from
different computers
• Not comfortable sharing
yet, but am interested in
the group “google tools”
and am finding helpful
sites using others’
bookmarks

5. Google Groups - joining
Love the Google tools education group – so helpful for someone just learning to
integrate this into my classroom. Most essential tip – for form tests make the first
question the student’s name.

6. Google Groups - creating
• I plan to also use google groups once school
begins to give the same permissions to a
group of people for some of my google docs
• For example: I created a google group for my
grade level partners/PLC team to use for
collaboration
• For example: I think it would be useful to make
a classroom parent group for sharing
information

7. Professional Social
Network – Classroom 2.0
• Joined Classroom 2.0 as my first professional
social network
• Posted an introduction, updated my profile,
and tweeted my membership to get started

8. My PLN after this course:
A much larger circle
• Good old email – home and school
• Twitter
• Classroom 2.0 professional social networking site
• Diigo
• Google Reader
• Google Groups
• My circle even includes teachers from other countries! That’s
quite a change from home, class, and maybe hallway…

9. Reflection
• The three stage explanation helped me to
understand where I am in the process of creating
my PLN
• Having had so little experience all of these
platforms were a lot to take in – I definitely need
some time to just get used to all the platforms
• Now I have so many options as I begin to move
towards collaboration and contribution in my PLN