Monday, February 24, 2014

Week 6 - Social Media

This week, I had to move class online because Audra was sick.  Such is the life of a working mom!  I'm thankful that my students were ok with me moving class online!  Also, I had a guest speaker planned for class but, we were able to rearrange that to last night (Sunday).

I met Toby through at EdCampOmaha last March.  He is a PhD student at OSU.  I thought that he would be the perfect person to help talk to my students about using social media NOW and in the future.  Toby talked about the benefits of being a connected educator and students were able to ask him questions during the hangout.  The students have had such great questions that instead of focusing on digital citizenship next week, I am going to change course a little bit and talk more about the power of social networking for educators.  I think it will better meet their needs right now but, I need to figure out a way to work more digital citizenship into the week as well.  Perhaps more responsible use for teachers and how to represent yourself online would be appropriate.

Teaching this class is a challennge but I am thoroughly enjoying it!

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