Difference between revisions of "Schools and social media"

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These are a collect of links sent to or discovered by Steven Clift, E-Democracy.org Executive Director, as he prepared for webinar presentation to the National Schools Public Relations Association on using social media to engage the broader community.

Discovered Links

• http://www.delicious.com/dowire/edtech - Stuff I've found

• Also note previously indexed Local Government 2.0 guides and reports.

Links Sent In

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/09/using-facebook-to-connect-with-students.html

http://www.debaird.net/blendededunet/2010/09/teachers-use-facebook-to-update-parents.html

http://www.edsocialmedia.com/

http://sociallearninglab.com/2010/07/25/social-media-five-steps-to-getting-your-district-started/

http://sociallearninglab.com/2010/08/31/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-social-media-school-pr-office/

http://nextcommunications.blogspot.com

http://nylady.edublogs.org/

Blogs St. Cloud, MN School Board member, http://jvonkorff.blogspot.com/ Chicago parent advocate, http://pureparents.org/ who is one of the founders of Parents Across America, new national group at http://parentsacrossamerica.org/ (looks to me like they're using wordpress) on facebook, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123352677681840 twitter http://www.twitter.com/ParentsAcrossAm/

Parents United has a facebook page, 445 members; at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Parents-United-for-Public-Schools/139921206266 and uses Twitter, http://twitter.com/marycecconi

Here's a list of all state and community-based (discovered) parent citizen education groups in MN (not school-based) http://www.parentsunited.org/Organizations.html

e.g., MN PTA has a facebook group, 41 members http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48126927210

School levy sites; I didn't think about this yesterday, but buried in the levy archive at http://www.parentsunited.org/LevyArchive.html are links to the community sites/facebook groups for local levys (when found) many get taken down after the levy is over;