10 ideas how to use social media to work and learn smarter – as a teacher

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SchoolNet Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, July 2011

Links to resources

• Ladder of participation in social media

1. Monitor the web for new content
   • Google alerts
2. Read blogs from industry experts/practitioners
   • Recommendations from participants
     • Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day
     • Will Richardson
     • Dan Meyer
     • Langwitches
     • David Warlick
     • Jane Hart: Learning in the Social Workplace
3. Subscribe to your favourite blogs
   • Google Reader
   • Commoncraft Google Reader in Plain English video
4. Connect with teachers/others on Twitter
   • Twitter for Teachers video
   • Edchat video
   • Edchat
   • Twitter chat schedule spreadsheet, Robert Swanwick
5. Connect with teachers/others on Facebook
6. Connect with teacher/others on LinkedIn
7. View and share educational presentations
   • Slideshare
   • 10 ways to use Zipcast, Slideshare blog, 17 February 2011
8. Use a content curation service
   • Summify
   • Curated.by
9. Share your own experiences in a blog
   • Edublogs
10. Build your own community of practice
    • Yammer
    • Social Learning Community

Come and join the next FREE online programme – The Smart Worker’s Guide to using social media – in  30 days – on the Share&Learn platform. Create an account and then join the Autumn group. 

More information about the daily assignments about the 30 ways to use social media for working and learning HERE.

Other SchoolNet presentations

• Opening Keynote: Thinking differently as learning professionals
• Workshop: Jane’s Pick of Learning Tools: 10 tools for the classroom
• Workshop: Building an Online Learning Community