Title: Social Media - Intro
Course: Tech Tools for Teachers > Section: Social Media for Educators

Summary

In this unit, you will learn how to leverage social media to create a personal learning network (PLN) and to improve classroom instruction.

Objectives

- Understand the concept of a personal learning network (PLN) and its value in your continuing education
- Evalute ways to integrate social media into classroom instruction [for classroom communication, see the Communication unit]
- Create a Twitter account and use it to: connect with other educators, find resources, and share information
- Use a social media dashboard to manage multiple social media accounts, user groups, and/or topics

Unit Outline

- Why Use Social Media?

The Networks

- Twitter & Facebook
- Task: Create a Twitter Account

Tools

- URL Shortener
- Dashboards / Aggregators
- Task: Try a Dashboard

More to Explore

- More to Explore: Social Media for Educators

Reflectio

- Social Media for Educators - Reflection

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