Presentation for the SC Education and Business Summit June 2016

1. CTE & Social Media:
Resources, Examples,
and Information You
Can Use
Dr. Curtis R. Rogers
Communications Director

2. Overview
O SC State Library and Discus – SC’s Virtual
Library
O Brief History of Social Media
O Do’s & Don’ts of Social Media in Education
O Social Media Specifically in CTE
O Brainstorm!

3. statelibrary.sc.gov

4. scdiscus.org

7. Brief History of Social Media
O 1971 - The first email was
delivered.
O 1985 - The America Online (AOL)
service opened.
O 1995 -Newsweek headlines an
article: The Internet? Bah! Hype
alert: Why cyberspace isn't, and
will never be, nirvana.
O 1997 - The Web had one million
sites.
O 1998 - Google opens as a major
Internet search engine and index.
O 2002 - AOL had 34 million
members.
O 2003 – MySpace launched.
LinkedIn was started as a
business-oriented social
networking site for professionals.
There were more than 3 billion
Web pages. Apple introduced the
online music service iTunes.
O 2004 - Facebook, another social
networking website, was started
for students at Harvard College.
O 2007 - Apple released the iPhone
multimedia and Internet
smartphone.
O 2008 - Facebook surpassed
MySpace in the total number of
monthly unique visitors.
O 2009 - Facebook ranked as the
most-used social network
worldwide with more than 200
million. Google saw one trillion
unique URLs – after eliminating
duplicate entries.
O 2010 - Facebook's rapid growth
moved it above 400 million users.
O 2011 - Social media were
accessible from virtually anywhere
and had become an integral part of
our daily lives with more than 550
million people on Facebook, 65
million tweets sent through Twitter
each day, and 2 billion video views
every day on YouTube. LinkedIn
has 90 million professional users.

8. Social Media Today (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media

9. Why aren’t you using
Social Media in your
CTE Program?

10. Stop doing what no
longer works!
Try something new
(If you’re allowed to)

11. • Post updates and
comments.
• Connect with
colleagues with
whom you feel safe.
DO
• Follow your students
on Facebook.
• Comment on status
updates of your
students.
DON’T

12. • Control your privacy
settings.
• Take care when
posting pictures of
others.
DO
• Connect with parents
on social media
(unless you’re friends)
• Drink and tweet or
post.
DON’T
The DOs and DON’Ts for teachers on social media by Jeff
Dunn

13. www.acteonline.org/advocacy_socialmedia

18. http://cte.unt.edu/admin-tools/professional-
development

19. Brainstorm!
What could work for your program?
What kinds of resources and information
could you provide via social media?

20. THANK YOU!!!
ODr. Curtis R. Rogers
Ocrogers@statelibrary.sc.gov
O803-734-8928
Ohttps://www.facebook.com/crr29061
Ohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/crr29061