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After previous Facebook in Education post I found some many exellent resources to share, that school marketing in Facebook post after this. So, what did I found?
First there is great video: Teacher Sarah Romeun: Using Facebook to teach
Second a presentation from Slideshare: Making the case for Facebook in education
In this post I present different ways to use Facebook in education ja and classroom. I work in Voionmaa upper secondary school as a teacher and student councellor and also as a project manager in many different projects.
I use Facebook in many ways:
Send messages to other teachers and developers which I have listed
Send best tweets and links from TweetDeck to Facebook
Send messages to our school students, because their reply faster in Facebook than E-mails.
Our school Voionmaa upper secondary school (might ask your sign in your Facebook account) have own Facebook-page and there over 1200 students involve. Im administrator with 3 other teachers and 2-3 students in this year. We share information, pictures, videos, links, promote school events and new courses.
I have networked between different upper secondary schools in Finland - I liked schools Facebook-pages, so I know, what happens in every school from my wall, very practical.
We have also network with 24 upper secondary schools and have common Facebook-page, where every school share their best practices for entrepreneurship and social media projects. All schools works at administrator of pages. Network is called Y-love network in entrepreneurship and social media. (Page is in Finnish, but take a look around) Sign in your Facebook account.
We also plan and write all new project in Facebook and GoogleDocs. In most project there is a demand on networking ja ICT-use, so application is written between schools all over Finland. Closed Facebook-group is great tool to lead writing process, innovate new and share links. Actual writing happens in GoogleDocs.
I have now closed groups at #Finnedchat, Mobile project, Voionmaa school teachers and couple more.
I use Facebook chat a lot with other teacher developers, its easy and quick.
Two videos give some perspectives from Facebook in classroom and education.
Next post is about using Facebook in School marketing and branding.
In our third part we go deeper with tutorials in applying Twitter in Classroom. But first, if there is a reader who doesnt have Twitter account yet, this tutorial is for you. Get a cup of coffee, look all the tutorials and links, and you dont want to start your vacation:)
"Dr. Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas, wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom." From Youtube video-trailer. So their started use Twitter.
Twitter is also handy on Kinderkarden in Meridian School in Seattle.
Using Twitter in Elementary School
This is great video with good examples
You find more videos on Youtube by search Twitter in Classroom.
These fantastic examples end our journey on Twitter in Classroom. But all us teachers know, that in August we have many new great ideas in our classrooms.
In my blog I continue presentations from Education Technology. We leave Twitter behind for a while, and search Facebook in school and social bookmarking tool Diido, my dear library use in classroom. Then we come back on Twitter and I prensent the ultimate Twitter tools, what every Twitter-teachers needs.
I hope you join and start collect good new ideas and examples from Twitter in Classroom at hashtag #twinclass.