T ERRIFIC T RICKS OF THE T RADE ! Eric Spring, Principal Birch Meadow School, Reading, MA Brian Middleton-Cox, Principal Woodville School, Wakefield, MA
A BOUT U S Eric Sprung Taught 3 rd and 4 th grade and served as assistant principal in Fairfax County, Virginia Served as Principal in Burlington and Reading, MA In the past year expanded uses GOOGLE READER/RSS FEEDS/BLOG/PHOTO STORY/FLIP VIDEO Brian Middleton-Cox Taught 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th grades in Massachusetts Served as Principal in Wakefield, MA In this past year expanded the use of GOOGLE READER/BLOG/ FLIP VIDEO/PHOTO STORY 3
O VERVIEW OF S ESSION Blogs and Blogger Twitter Google Reader Feeders Goal: To share how technology is a tool to share information about your classroom or school. Blue Ribbon Standards: Student Organization and Culture School, Family, and Community Partnerships Technology Integration
W HAT I S A B LOG ? Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer; also : the contents of such a site
B LOGGING FOR E DUCATIONAL P ERSONNEL Sharing News and Events Progress Monitoring Status Alerts Marketing Public Relations Community Building Branding Thought Leadership Advocacy Replacing the School Website
E XAMPLES OF B LOGS Mr. Sprung’s Blog Mr. Middleton-Cox’s Blog
B LOGGING P LATFORMS Blogger Wordpress Edublog Tumblr SquareSpace Posterous
V IDEO O N S ETTING U P A B LOG
B LOGGING Setting up your blog on blogger Adding text Adding links Adding photos Adding videos Photo Story 3 by Microsoft ClustrMaps
T WITTER Twitter Song feature=relatedhttp:// feature=related – HOW TO TWITTER Tweetdeck – organize your twitter account HASHTAGS /FrontPagehttp://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/w/page/ /FrontPage - whose out there? BS0SgqDabnhl8Z2aA&hl=en#gid=0http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pM_ZE5 BS0SgqDabnhl8Z2aA&hl=en#gid=0 – Google List - followers directory
A DVANCED TWITTER exploring/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter twitter tips and articles terhttp://ccselementarywebtools.pbworks.com/w/page/ /Twit ter - twitter tips – educators guide to twitter for-the-twittering-teacher/ for-the-twittering-teacher/ different tips for educators and twitter users-who-will.htmlhttp://blog.efrontlearning.net/2011/02/1000-elearning-twitter- users-who-will.html people to follow
G OOGLE R EADER
RSS AND F EEDS