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Social Media Talk
I’ve spoken to the PTA at Tuckahoe Middle School for the last two years about social media. It’s been pretty interesting both times in that I take a closer look at things that I tend to take for granted. I think both conversations have gone pretty well. I’ll document the conversation below (mixed with a few things I did with our principals a while back) for anyone who might have to do the same. Introduction I start with a slide that mixes the pictures of as many radically different people with Twitter accounts as I can find. I get the audience to try to identify the people. The one I’m using now has the Dali Lama, Rupert Murdoch, Sarah Palin and a few others. My goal was to have a few easily identifiable people and a few that took a tiny bit more effort.Don’t make people work too hard at this point or everything will stall and you will make enemies. I wanted a wide diversity in political views, ages, etc. After we’ve ID’d the people, I ask “What do these people have in common?”I believe you already know the answer. I mention that you’ve probably heard references to Twitter after shows like Good Morning America, etc. Hopefully this gets people into the mindset that Twitter (and social media in […]
Speaking from experience . . .
Asked by one student how he could become President someday, Obama issued a warning about Facebook. “I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook, because in the YouTube age whatever you do, it will be pulled up again later somewhere in your life. That’s number one,” he said, according to Bloomberg. – source Good advice but I really wonder what will be considered “bad” in 30 yearsGranted, many people don’t care about smoking pot but it’s still against the law and photographic evidence bragging about breaking the law isn’t the best idea, right Michael Phelps?. Neither party has been too clean in terms of youthful (on non-youthful) “indiscretions” latelyI won’t get into what personal stuff is currently going on with a ridiculous number of politicians.. Leaders in the private sector and many religions don’t seem any different. I wonder if the easy and frequent documentation, not to mention publication, of all sorts of mistakes will change what people expect out of politicians and people in general. People make mistakes. It’s going to happen to lots of them. Will the sheer proliferation make those mistakes matter less? Will it take more and more shocking things to make any sort of impression? That’d be an interesting byproduct. As a result of the consistent chronicling of “bad” behavior […]
Teacher Internet Safety Course Comic Page 6
The saga continues . . . This one mentions room arrangement and minor things you might do to keep kids honest. I think in the end I’ll have links out that describe how to arrange the room, how to check history etc.