Schools and social media

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.

The slides.

Discovered Links

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

Related Resources

• Also note previously indexed Local Government 2.0 guides and reports which include some great guides on using social media in government (the top three listed) as well as the Civic Leadership Blogging Guide I mentioned in the live webinar.

• Other in-depth webinars

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;