Art Teaching with a touch of Technology

'Growing Social Media' by  mkhmarketing  via CC 2.0 We all have needs for posting the great things we do at school.  This session is around how you can customise what you can do, without too much difficulty. Social Media, Websites, Blogs, all help build a profile for your professional life. This session is about how you can create new, or build upon what you already have!

I believe that all teachers should have a way to reach out to others, and build a Professional Learning Network (PLN) of like minded educators.  We all have interests, problems, questions, and need advice. There are many ways to build this PLN, and there are many educators using Twitter. Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". It is a microblogging platform, which allows you to post and show what you are doing, ask questions, and follow an interesting feed of information. Many people use Twitter to: Share ideas Develop a PLN (Personal Learning Network) Connect and collaborate with people Reflect and engage in dialogue with others Access to new resources...every day Follow interests Expand your professional development Here are some common definitions of commonly used terms in Twitter. #tags (n): hashtags are markers placed in a Tweet that can be traced by other ...

'Social Media apps' by Jason Howie  via CC 2.0 Ok, I am a busy guy.  I have kids, a wife, and lots to do at school as a tech integrator.  But, I love sharing, and I have a lot of social media accounts.  I was looking for a way to incorporate a lot of my tools together, so that I can post once, and the rest of my social media will get the same post. I love Instagram, and Twitter for professional items.  But, I noticed I have a lot of Google Plus followers, but I only post my blog posts there.  I asked myself, how can I cross-post better?  How can I use Google Plus, and Linked In more effectively, without wasting time. I found an outdated post , and I added some updates. So, this workflow starts from Google+, then Tweets it, and Posts to LinkedIn.  Since Google Plus is the hardest to automate, lets start the workflow from there.  What you need is an RSS from your Google Plus profile.  Go to your Google Plus profile, and...

Image courtesy of  David Shankbone  via Flickr & Creative Commons License. How do I interact with those whom I haven't met?  I like Twitter, but I like to think about how else I might use it, in conjunction with my blog. While being in the Coetail Online2 Cohort, I have made attempts at engaging the COETAIL Community, via twitter, and through my blog. Here are a few of my Twitter posts:    I like Twitter, but I often do not find it engaging.  Maybe I prefer working with people I have met face to face.  Who doesn't?  But I wanted to find a way that I can get some interaction between my PLN and also a bit from the folks I have met in person. So I made few blog posts, using Google Forms to make them interactive.   Like this one.  and this one.      The plan was to pass out the blog post via Twitter, and via email to folks I know...  I asked the readers to fill in the form, and voila... the graph...