1. SMH-Social Media Helps
Construction versus Consumption
Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, and self-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.

2. Tara Kissel
B.S in Secondary English Education, Master’s in Educational Technology, Ph.D. in Learning Technologies (in progress)
Taught for ten years
Current 1 to 1 specialist for FWISD
Mother of twins
Lover of technology, Star Trek, comic books, movies and random trivia
Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, and self-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.

3. Social Media usage 8 in 10 (79%) Americans use Facebook 32% Instagram
31% Pintrest
29% LinkedIn
24% Twitter
7% increase of reported Facebook users
Teen Twitter use has grown significantly: 24% of online teens use Twitter, up from 16% in 2011
In broad measures of online experience, teens are considerably more likely to report positive experiences than negative ones. For instance, 52% of online teens say they have had an experience online that made them feel good about themselves.
Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, and self-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.
Madden, M., Lenhart, A., Cortesi, S., Gasser, U., Duggan, M., Smith, A., & Beaton, M. (2013). Teens, social media, and privacy. Pew Research Center, 21, 2-86.
Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, and self-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.

4. Benefits of Social Media
 Don't mistake social media for socializing. 
ISTE Standards for Students 
Digital Citizenship
Modern communication
Establishing networks
Collaboration
Authentic Tasks
promotes personal choice, customization and student familiarity
Constant connectivity
Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, and self-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.

5. Social Media sites and their uses
Twitter
an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, "tweets," restricted to 140 characters. Those who are unregistered can only read them.
Instagram
mobile photo-sharing site that allows its users to share pictures and videos, publicly or privately on the app, as well as through a variety of other social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr.
Kik
Kik is a mobile messaging application. The popular app which is free to use and has an internal browser, meaning users are encouraged to spend more time within the app.
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking site and service where users can post comments, share photographs and links to news or other interesting content on the Web, play games, chat live, and even stream live video..
Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, and self-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.

6. Tumblr
a microblogging and social networking website. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs
Tinder
 location-based social search mobile app (using Facebook) that facilitates communication between mutually interested users, allowing matched users to chat. The app is commonly used as a dating services app, and has branched out to provide more services, making it more of a general social media application.
LinkedIn
a social networking site designed specifically for the business community. The goal of the site is to allow registered members to establish and document networks of people they know and trust professionally.
Youtube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website, that includes vloggers, sharing and commentary.
Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, and self-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.

7. Pinterest
a personalized media platform where users can browse the content of others in their feed.
Snapchat
a mobile app that allows users to send and receive "self-destructing" photos and videos. Photos and videos taken with the app are called snaps.
Reddit
Reddit is a social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Reddit's registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links. 
Twitch
It’s essentially the YouTube for live gaming: people broadcast themselves playing and/or talking about games while other people watch them (either live or via archived footage) while chatting about it.
Soundcloud
an online audio distribution platform that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds. SoundCloud's content is evenly split between music and other audio.
Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, and self-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.

8. Social Media activities
Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, and self-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.

9. Skills being built through social media
Concise writing
Thesis creation
Retelling
Story telling
Digital literacy
Story construction
Visual media
Speaking
Vetting reliable sources
Real world connections
Social Manipulation
Digital citizenship
Sequencing
Global interaction
Opposing view points
Communication
Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, and self-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.

10. Social Media Language Selfie Emojis Photobombing Sock puppet
Rickrolling
Fake news
Unfriend
Clickbait
Trolling
Crowdsourcing
Meme
Hashtag
Streaming
“yes, some of us despair at how use of this informal medium can lead to an equally casual attitude to grammar. But the truth is that social media is great for word nerds. It provides a rich playground for experimenting with, developing, and subverting language.”
Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, and self-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.

11. But wait we have a firewall!
Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, and self-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.

12. Social Media mirroring activities
Live tweet
Fakebook
Real pintrest board
Tindr profiles
Snapchat stories live
no word Instagram stories
class hastags
Story re-writes for social media
Soundcloud commentary
Twitch stream of other games
Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, and self-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.

13. Links http://www.tcea.org/blog/emoji-writing/
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content/uploads/2013/05/PIP_TeensSocialMediaandPrivacy_FINAL.pdf
Gender_and_Self-Presentation_in_Social_Media/links/56eb205408ae2a58dc49ef59.pdf
Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, and self-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.