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Social Media Club

Weldon E. Howitt Middle School Farmingdale UFSD ... Julie Ehrenpreis & Michael King

Julie Ehrenpreis

@Jule_Elibrarian

• LMS in Connecticut & New York
• K-12 Experience

Before Librarianship

• Video & Television Production
• BS: Special Studies: Multimedia & Internet Studies

Favorite Genre: Dystopian Fun Fact: Freelance Promo Marketer in Coll.

Michael King

@RegalLibrarian

Librarian for 6 years now. Life outside Libraries:

• Undergrad in Biology
• Stock Trading
• Working on PhD in Information Studies

Favorite Genre: Love High Fantasy Hobbies & Passion: Computers and Coding

Foundings of Social Media Club

Original an Idea brought to the table by Administration. The Problem: How to present safe use of web tools, apps, and sites to students? The HOT Topics:

Cyberbullying Privacy Safety Trustworthiness

Original Idea and Reasoning

Considerations:

• District Environment
• Age Range
• Current Offerings
• Student Use

Students’ Social Media Life

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Snapchat
• Music.ly*

A Modern Spin on the School Newspaper + ⌨

Links, pictures, video, audio, and of course, writing.

• Twitter @SMC_Paw_News
• Instagram
• Edublog - Manifestation of Wordpress
• Down the Road: YouTube Channel?
• Daler Paw Press → Daler Paw News

Hint:

• Keep the name

short--Twitter handles are 15 characters or less

• Long Hashtags

“waste” characters

Coverage/Stories

School Events

• Plays
• Sports
• Concerts

○ Choral ○ Band ○ Orchestra Special Events & Community Service

• Cheerboxes
• Wildlife Warriors

Movie Night

• MakerSpace

Symposium

• Stare Wars

Classroom Projects

• Interdisciplinary

Collaboration

• Food truck-HMS

parking lot “field trip”

Curriculum Integration and Support

English: Literacy, Citations, Grammar, Proofreading Social Studies: Current Event Awareness Digital Skills: Typing, Collaborative, Basic Web Design Photography

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Re-Examining missing components from the traditional academic approach One of Common Cores Virtues: Emphasis on Career

• Collaboration
• Communication skills
• Professionalism

How to use it? Friends VS School VS Work

The reality of social media is that it exists and will forever be part of the human experience, now it is important to teach students that the division of work and play must exist in the online world simultaneously with the physical.

Social Media & Safety Key Points:

• No personal info, no last names
• Kind words
• Positive!!!
• We approve posts

Social Media &

• Get permission to:

○ Photograph ○ Video ○ Audio Record (use voice memo tools) ○ Interview (record for accurate quotes) ○ Share/Post

• If subject says “no,” say: “OK, thank you anyway.”

Social Media Reality

: PewDiePie-40m Subscribers -$12m/yr Sna IPO Offering: $3.4 Billion Facebook : $8.81 Billion in Revenue Q4 2016

• What the Hello.....

Workflow and team-based organizational

• software. Used heavily in Programming

companies and team-centric work environments. Allows for work assignment and big picture views.

How We Use Trello

Keep tabs on students and their ongoing

• projects. Allow for self directed students

to claim jobs. Helpful for keeping students and teachers organized.

Finding a Routine

• Start in-progress projects immediately
• Come to Advisors when ready for new

project or for finishing.

• Upperclassmen peer-editors
• Twitter & Instagram Routines

Issues

• Enthusiasm doesn’t always equal productivity &

ability

• M.S. kids (mostly) < 13= Lots of supervision req’d
• Slow Turn Around Time
• Getting media off of devices (network security)
• Scheduling interviews and media

○ School Day (pull out?) ○ After School/Out of School

Looking Forward

• Now getting teacher requests for “social media

coverage” of projects and extracurriculars

• Setup of teams to cover news together
• Building larger pool of “reliable alums”

Sources

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2015/10/14/the-worlds-highest-paid-youtube-stars-2 015/#283a6b173192 http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/company/snap-inc-899497-82723 http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/01/facebook-earnings-q4-2016.html “Jachimo” Slides Theme adapted from www.SlidesCarnival.com