Social MediaFor Early Childhood
Educators
Presented by Lisa Colton, Founder & President Darim Online
Agenda
Review Social Media BasicsGood, Better and Best ExamplesImplications for Teaching & Learning
PPT available at: http://slidesha.re/darim-ece
COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION
COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION
Characteristics of Social Media
The Term “Social Media” refers to online tools (web sites) that
depend on user contributions and interactions between people to
build shared meaning and value. It is:
• Participatory: It blurs the line between producer and consumer, media and audience.
• Open and Democratic: It encourages voting, comments and the sharing of information. For this reason it is seen as authentic and trustworthy.
• Conversational: Two (or more) way conversation rather than one-directional broadcast. Is personal, specific, and engaging.
• Communal: Supports formation, growth and strength of communities around a particular shared interest.
• Connected: Thrives on being connected, making use of links to other sites, resources and people, rather than being territorial and proprietary.
Communal
Communal
Connected
WHERE CAN YOU ADD
VALUE
Social Content is Social Capital
• Social Capital is the value of the connections between and among social networks for increasing productivity, spreading information, and locating desired resources.
• Content should be newsworthy, unique, controversial, timely immediately useful and/or funny.
• 1:12 ratio
WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?
P: People - who is your audience, what is their behavior, what do they want?
O: Objectives - what are your goals and objectives with that audience? What are their personal goals?
S: Strategy - how are you going to achieve those goals? (This is on and offline)
T: Technology - what tools, used in what way, will you use to implement your strategy?
Let’s try it!
Thinking about your P.O.S.T.
craft a stellar Facebook update.
What’s happening in this blog post?
“Schools will need to develop centers of inquiry and evaluation whose main goals will be to teach collaboration, responsibility for the good works of the group, trust and creative integration of various fields of knowledge across disciplines ...
Classroom teachers will need to learn to be facilitators and negotiators of human communication and meaning-creation. The idea of teachers who know something that needs to be passed on to someone else, as if it were a physical object, will also disappear.
Instead, instructors will need to be orchestrators of deeply felt human processes where the construction of human meaning (or meaning-making) will be the central purpose of the work of young people.”
- Jason Ablin, head of school at Milken Community High School in Los Angeles, as appeared in the Jewish Journal
Mobile
Angry Birds, #1 selling iphone/ipad app worldwide
iMahNishtanahiPhone app
What will do you differently?
What questions do you have?