This document discusses how social media can be used in education to connect students globally and enrich their learning experiences. It provides examples of how one teacher, Shannon McClintock Miller, used social media to facilitate collaborations between her students and classes in other schools and places around the world. These connections through social media empowered students to grow as digital citizens and allowed them to lead educational initiatives like celebrating Read Across America Day virtually with contributors from multiple locations. The document advocates for using social media in education to give students opportunities to connect, collaborate, and create with others while also giving them a voice.

1. Social Media in Education Shannon McClintock Miller Van Meter School Teacher Librarian Follow on Twitter @shannonmmiller Presentation Website bit.ly/socialmediaineducation Follow Follett User Conference on Twitter at #FSC11

2. What is social media?

3. Collaborative and interactive tools found on the web to… Connect Share Publish Discuss Create Teach

4. What social media tools do you use?

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7. How can social media be used in education?

8. To globally connect our students through collaboration and interactive tools and networks

9. What does social media bring to the lives of our students?

10. Empowers them to grow as global and digital citizens

11. Enriches their learning experiences by connecting with individuals, groups, and experiences around the world

12. So, why wouldn’t you use social media with your students and in education?

13. Lack of Knowledge FiltersPermission FormsFear Not enough timeParentsJust Don’t Want to Try Something New

14. Van Meter’s Story of Using Social Media to Create a Change

15. Over the last four years I have brought social media into our library and school in many ways.

27. As I became more connected through social media, great things started to happen at Van Meter.

28. Connected with great people from Merton, Wisconsin

29. Christa McClintock Van Meter Kindergarten Teacher PatienceEncouragementExcitement We connected….

30. Our Two Schools

31. Skyped from Van Meter, Iowa

32. To Merton, Wisconsin

34. Connecting & Communicating with new friends and places

35. Telling the story of the collaboration and connections through our blog

36. To real life experiences

37. And the connections, collaboration and creations didn’t stop there.

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54. Celebrating Read Across America Day Virtually With Our Friends

56. We created the Celebrating the Power of Words and Stories Through Connections Wiki, used Twitter and Facebook to promote and had 16 teachers, 10 authors, and dozens of connections around the world on World Read Aloud Day.

58. Why use social media with students? Lets hear from them.

67. As you can see, social media gives students endless opportunities to connect, collaborate and create with others around the world.

68. It gives students a place to connect to their passions and to be leaders in education.

69. Social media givesthem a VOICE.

70. It can give you a VOICE to be a change in education too.