1. Richland 1 professional development
Afternoon Session
Vyce Moses-Johnson, M.Ed., M.S.
August 14, 2014

2. Social Media in Education “Do it for the Vine!”
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine

3. Popular Social Media

4. What do the numbers say?

5. The Student Support Show
Open Floor
The Student Support Show

6. How does this help me? Parental interaction Supplemental information
Staying abreast of what’s going on the classroom
Effective communication on issues affecting school to home relationships
Reference for students, teachers and parents
Opens your office beyond the 4 walls

7. Weebly Education: Create your own Website
Adapted by Vyce Moses-Johnson
Weebly Site:

8. Use Weebly Educator
Weebly Educator is a free website builder for educators and has multiple uses:
Post articles for parents
Post student support information
Import files
Import videos
Import pictures
Create links to other websites

9. Create a Free Website in Minutes!
Step 1: Go to
and sign up. You will be asked to create a username, password, and provide an address

10. Step 1

11. Step 2
Step 2: Create a website-click on create a site, name it, and assign a url (Example:

12. Step 2: Create Site

13. Step 2 Continued

14. Let the Creation Begin!
Step 3: Start creating- choose a design (you can change this later and alter the pictures)
Step 4: Create your page: click and drag on the elements of your choice to add titles, paragraphs, pictures, video, files, etc.

15. Step 3: Select a Design

16. Editing Page

17. Add Pages
Step 5: Add pages and even a blog by clicking on pages and naming them (Example: English 9, English 9 Honors, English 12 Honors, Suggested Sites, Blog)

18. Manage/Add Pages

19. Publish Your Site
Step 6: Publish your website-click on the orange publish button and save the link, this is the site students will see
You can make changes at any time and re-publish your site and instantly see the changes applied to the site

20. Creation and Publication Complete!

21. Create a Blog Create a Blog by clicking on “Pages” Click on “New Blog”
Post information, discussion questions, etc.
You can monitor blog responses before they are displayed online
To check Blog responses, follow the same procedure for checking submitted forms

22. Weebly Support & Info Weebly Demo Weebly Demo 2 Weebly Help
About Weebly
Weebly Article
Weebly Education Sites and Blog

23. Off-campus productivity
When you can’t be in front of your computer, here are some tools you can use to stay in the office loop.

24. Google calendar

25. My calendar

26. Gmail
Some outside s can be added to gmail so that you can receive your work through your gmail inbox.
You can also send mail as your work but from your gmail account.
MUST have a google account to use gmail.

27. Dropbox http://www.dropbox.com
Free account gets your 2gb of storage (refer others and get more or upgrade)
Accessible anywhere you have an internet connection
Share files on the go with the app

28. Accessing your favorites any and everywhere: On the go productivity
Online Bookmarking
Accessing your favorites any and everywhere: On the go productivity

29. Presentation adapted from Slideshare
Delicious
Presentation adapted from Slideshare

30. What does the tool do and how does one find it?
To find it you go to
You would use this tool to bookmark your favorite sites.
You can use it as social bookmarking.
This is a way for you to accumulate, categorize, find, and control all the info you find from web pages.

31. What are the features of this tool?
Save links to your favorite web pages
Make your bookmark public or private
Share your bookmarks with who you want (users and non- users)
View your friends bookmarks and save them to your account
Tag specific words in your article
Access bookmarks from other people that have the same interests as you
Access it anywhere where there is internet

32. Other benefits of using this tool
Great way to keep all of your favorite sites together
Use it to discover other interesting bookmarks on the web
Share your bookmarks with others
Get bookmarks that you like

33. Benefits (cont.)
You can share bookmarks with users and non users by using and twitter.
The search button has improved.
Bookmark Add On for different web browsers.
You don’t have to be on your computer to access your bookmarks. YES, you can access from any device with an internet connection.

34. Home Page

35. Good for Academic purposes
Delicious gives you an easier and more organized way to keep your important pages and articles in one place
Helps you go to one place when you need to cite the pages you used
Good to find information on a specific topic.
Share bookmarks with your friends or subscribe to interesting users.

36. Using this tool in and out of the Classroom
Save all your websites in one place for a paper, project, etc.
Go to other users tags and bookmarks, you don’t always have to use Google.

37. Delicious is strictly web based.
You do not need to install anything to use Delicious.
There are no limitations
Unfortunately, no app downloads for it, but can still be used.

38. Is it easy to set up an account and are there different account levels?
Delicious is completely free.
Signing up is an easy three step process.
Enter details
Add buttons to your bookmarks bar
Import existing bookmarks to Delicious

39. Symbaloo user guide

40. Chapter 1 Create a webmix
This is where it all starts. Create your own webmix!!
Chapter 1 Create a webmix
Save time
Organize your online life
Never lose your bookmarks
Create.

45. Chapter 2 Create a webmix
Created a nice webmix that is interesting for others? Share it!!
Chapter 2 Create a webmix
Share your webmix easily
Inform others
Get traffic from Google
Share.

46. (make sure you’re signed in with your account)

49. Chapter 3 Discover useful webmixes
Need information or links on a certain topic? Find it in the Symbaloo Gallery!
Chapter 3 Discover useful webmixes
Get the best links per topic
Get inspired
Find useful webmixes
Discover.

52. And it’s NOT impossible!
Your Mission…
And it’s NOT impossible!

53. Assignment
Create a simple Weebly website. Include contact information, about you, general schedule of your day (if applicable), helpful links or resources, etc. Your page should be “live” in that it changes or is updated regularly. It should be a resource for the entire school year. HINT: Your Symbaloo or Delicious links can be added to your Weebly as an outside link.