1. THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SCHOOL
LEADERS
CMTC * November 27, 2012
Bill Carozza • Principal – Harold Martin School • wcarozza@mac.com
Twitter: @wcarozza • Blog: billcarozza.com • Hashtag: #cmtc12
2. BIG PICTURE GOALS
FOR TODAY
• Understand how social media can be used
to:
• LEARN and CONNECT
• COMMUNICATE
3. SPECIFIC goals for
today:
• Establish why the use of social media (SM)
and being a Connected Leader is a positive
thing for school leaders. Encourage and
inspire!
• Review a number of SM possibilities.
• Point you to resources for more information.
• You make a decision to pick one SM tool to
try.
5. Quick Tweet
• Pres. at Christa McAuliffe Tech Conf in NH-Social
Media for Admins. Pls tweet back how Twitter has
been powerful for you. #cpchat #edadmin
6. Vic and Jean Carozza
It’s all about relationships
7. Technology Credo
• Technology tools should only be used if
they support our academic values.
8.
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. You think the world has
changed?
1989 Radio Shack Cell Phone Commercial
12. Web 1.0
• Static web pages
• Using search engines
• Surfing the web
13. 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 know how-not as important
• No need to know computer programming, e.g.
HTML
19. A case for Twitter
• Twitter is your window to perhaps the
highest quality content on the web.
• It’s a free Web 2.0 microblogging service,
140 character max., and inspires you to
read and learn.
• It’s all about connections
• Register at http://twitter.com
20. The Language of Twitter
@: Reply sent to a specific person
RT: Retweeting helps to spread great tweets to others
DM: Direct Message is like email-private to one person
#: Hashtag parses Tweets to a single topic
21. Why Use Twitter?
For Your
Rapidly disseminate info
School
Create your Own PLN (Professional
Prof. Growth
Learning Network)
23. DEVELOPING YOUR PLN (Personal Learning
Network)
Learn from other administrators
Links to blogs, articles
Find collaborative solutions
Backchanneling at conferences
24. HOW TO ACCESS TWITTER?
Multi-Column
-Tweetdeck, Hootsuite
Single Column
-Twitter for Mac,
Echofon
Smartphone
25. It’s all about Hashtags
#cpchat
#edadmin
#edchat
#elemchat
#cmtc12
#ascd
#ascd13
27. Getting started with
Twitter
• Head to twitter.com and set up an account.
• Follow those who are here at the
conference
• Head to a favorite hashtag and start
following those who write tweets you like.
• You will start getting followers!
30. Why Blog?
• Writing requires reflection and greater
understanding.
• Blogging begins the cycle of collaboration.
• Blogging encourages teachers and students
to do the same.
• A blog helps to build your school’s “brand”.
38. The problem
• You have many web sites
that you have love and
have bookmarked. How
do you organize them so
that you can find them
again?
39. The problem
• You have many web sites
that you have love and
have bookmarked. How
do you organize them so
that you can find them
again?
• And...how do you find
good vetted educational
web sites instead of
searching through
thousands on Google?
40. Solution-Social
Bookmarking with Diigo
* Organizes all of your web sites
* Can set up vetted web sites groups for students
* Can search for vetted web sites – more reliable than
Google
42. POWER of
screencasts
• Can be used as brief training videos for
parents or PD for teachers.
• Combines your computer screen with
voice.
• Client software and web software
• Easy web example: Screenr
47. Resources
All resources can be found at billcarozza.com, click tab:
“Workshop Resources”
Email: wcarozza@mac.com
Twitter: @wcarozza
Editor's Notes
Abby and Ashley\n
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TodaysMeet is collaborative blogging tool-definition of social media. Backchannel. We’ll use it for feedback, comments, questions during the presentation. HEAD TO THE SITE\n
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Dad-The seed was sown in WW II Okinawa in the East China Sea, with a 24 year old man stringing up antennas, running coaxial cables, and plugging in transmitters and receivers. sick near the end of his life-moved in-Internet was new. Wrote emails to my children stories across the room. Even then Dad knew that social media was all about relationships. \n