Social Media Stories for Week of Jan 18
This new weekly post will provide insights into the emerging world of social media and its impact on the classroom and community engagement .
Board Members
Where are you on the Social Technographic Ladder?
If you are a Facebook user, it will not hurt to review your Facebook settings to insure what you thought you were sharing with the world is actually happening.
Confused by the dialog box requesting an email address when you sign up for an application on Facebook? This article explains how it works.
Do you constantly have 99 new notifications, marked with the little red button at the bottom right in your Facebook account? Would you like to only receive important notifications, such as comments from friends, and skip the stuff various applications send you? Read on.
Schools and the Classroom
The Kaiser Family Foundation has the results in from its latest media usage study, and it was enough to shock the authors. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). And because they spend so much of that time ‘media multitasking’ (using more than one medium at a time), they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes (10:45) worth of media content into those 7½ hours. Students no longer use technology as an add-on they have no choice .
The recently released video, “RE: Cry of the Dolphins,” is a clever and thought-provoking anti-cyberbullying effort by Google/YouTube, the National Crime Prevention Council and Saatchi & Saatchi. Watch closely, you’ll probably be surprised what happens.
Community Engagement
Using online surveys is becoming a more popular among school distircts, especially for budget reductions input. Currently Sacramento City and Oakland are using surveys to solicit input.
As more of us use non school district resources to communicate with our constituents using iPhones, blogs and social networking apps like Facebook, beware of the implications on public records requests.
As more newspapers declare bankruptcy impacting coverage of schools, what is your school district doing to create its own distribution channels of information?
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