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ICT Conference SOS Social Media Share Online Safely. A Birmingham schools pilot project to support teachers using social media to share online safely. SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos. ICT Conference: SOS Social Media.
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ICT Conference SOS Social Media Share Online Safely A Birmingham schools pilot project to support teachers using social media to share online safely SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos
ICT Conference: SOS Social Media Today’s workshop: 2 two simple aims 1. To share with you ... An outline of the SOS pilot project: using social media in Birmingham schools. 2. To seek from you ... Your viewpoint on using social media in your school. SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos
ICT Conference: SOS Social Media The SOS Project: An outline Aim To support B’ham teachers to use social media safely: (corporate, professional, pedagogical, personal use) Outcomes - Plain English Getting Started resources - Social Media Policy/Framework for pedagogical use To be hosted at: www.bgfl.org/sos To be built by: Link2ICT To be populated by: Project Leaders/facilitators To be published by: Summer 2012 SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos
ICT Conference: SOS Social Media The SOS Project: An outline 2 Starting point Twitter, Blogs, Facebook: how to make a simple start and stay safe. Methodology Participatory action research including: 1. Building a professional learning community - share resources, expertise, dialogue, peer support re social media for learning 2. Change management - Birmingham teachers owning changes in their practice 3. Dual focus on social media and esafety Target audience Birmingham teachers social media beginners SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos
ICT Conference: SOS Social Media Project Leaders: Harriet Breeze ICT Coordinator, Whitehouse Common Primary Sarah Lucas Teacher :Learning Technologies, The Pines Special School Steve Philp Deputy Head Teacher, Paganel Primary School Chris Talbot Numeracy & ICT manager, Broadmeadow Junior School Project facilitators Paul Busst Online content manager , Link2ICT Andy Pyper E-Safety & Info Security Manager, Link2ICT Chris Seymour-Smith Online curriculum adviser, Link2ICT SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos
ICT Conference: SOS Social Media What is social media? A social media online tool is one which allows Web 2.0 behaviour: interacting, sharing and collaborating, – quickly, easily, cheaply – through a social media dialogue; creating user-generated content in a virtual community . Contrast with Web 1.0 websites offering one-way, passive viewing of content created by owners of expertise, knowledge and therefore power. –ACTIVE – EASY – VOICE – SOCIAL – DIALOGUE SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos
ICT Conference: SOS Social Media SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos
ICT Conference: SOS Social Media Publisher Publish Abi Ellie What is social media to Kam?? Share Ben Danni Kam Converse SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos
ICT Conference: SOS Social Media 3 Questions ... 1. WHY ... might teachers use social media for learning? 2. WHY DO / DON’T YOU ... use social media for learning? 3. WHAT DO YOU WANT / NEED ... to feel comfortable in exploring social media as a teacher? SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos
ICT Conference: SOS Social Media Q1. WHY ... Might teachers use social media for learning? A: It can improve / transform learning ... achievement - Is social ... key to effective learning - Engages ... motivates, improves behaviour - Affirms ... Raises self-worth - Is relevant ... preferred context/technology - Access higher order thinking ... Step change = transformation A: It also prepares 21C citizens SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos
Evaluate: Present /defend opinions: Make judgments. Synthesise: Compile info in a new way Analyse: Examine. Infer. Present. Explain. Can do / apply: Solve problems: apply knowledge to new situations. Understand: Organise. Compare. Interpret.Describe. Know: Recall facts, terms, concepts, answers. Shift from lower order to higher order thinking skills Thinking Skills (Bloom)
‘”I enjoy learning with my mates using technology ...” “What did I learn?” ICT Conference: SOS Social Media Today I learned how to …” – Eloise “Today I learned that…” – Harry “How do I enjoy learning?” “I learned with (Bobby and Gareth!) …” Birmingham Schools Blogs “I enjoyed doing …” “I am a little disappointed with my picture of the view because I didn't put the camera at an angle so I wish I should of done it now so I could of done better.” Paganel Primary blog Evaluating my learning “It doesn’t matter if you win or lose…” – Hannah Reflecting SEAL Scalextric Day at Paganel Primary SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos
ICT Conference: SOS Social Media “At school we are learning how to improve are photographic skills so we can take better pictures of our scalextric project. We have been learning that the backgrounds and foregrounds focus can dramatically improve the quality of a pictures. I hope you like the picture below. We did this with David grange (a professional photographer).” SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos
ICT Conference: SOS Social Media 3 Questions ... 1. WHY ... teachers might use social media for learning? 2. WHY DO / DON’T YOU ... use social media for learning? 3. WHAT DO YOU WANT / NEED ... to feel comfortable in exploring social media as a teacher? SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos
ICT Conference: SOS Social Media Are you interested in becoming ... An SOS Subscriber? – receive project progress An SOS Advocate? – promoting SOS project An SOS Resource Contributor? – text/video/audio An SOS User Group member? – testing usability Playing a role in full-scale project? – pending proposal SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos
Thank you for participating Thank-you for listening! www.bgfl.org/sos SOS Project: Led by Birmingham teachers. Coordinated by Link2ICT. www.bgfl.org/sos