’sight is what you see, vision is what you can be’ -Joel Olsteen

I got this to memory now after listening to one of his podcasts…thought I’d share after seeing your video

thanks

#3: Amen. I think educators all too often use their self-proclaimed “digital immigrant” status (great title!) as a crutch to avoid having to raise their teaching/knowledge to meet 21st century technology skills/tools. We’re way beyond, “Oh Johnny, will you help me put this tape in the VCR?” and teachers should be accountable for that.

#7: I think educators need to click on Google’s “Advanced Search” every now and then. That’s the step between naive, natural language searches and knowing shortcuts/syntax. Just looking at the “Advance Search” page would show them that they have the ABILITY to control the search.

My additions:

(Perhaps unique to middle school teaching as I haven’t taught anything else…yet) Students of successful teachers need to know what to expect. Always. How the teacher will respond to her/his joke. How the teacher will react to a sincere question. How the teacher will act towards unfocused students. What they will accomplish each day. The list goes on. Successful teachers’ actions are predictable.

Successful teachers are intentional. Intentional about where they stand, how they move, the volume and tone of their voice, what they acknowledge with their words, what they acknowledge with their facial expressions, and sometimes more importantly, what they ignore and teach over.

And seeing as I’m now at school trying to check out your example link, yes, I vote FB Pages should be unblocked by schools. Or can schools start by just unblocking certain (checked, educational) FB Pages? I’d fear that, “Now they let those kids play on that Facebook thing at school!” would quickly get around town. If our stance is firm: EDUCATION-RELATED CONTENT ONLY, our perception would be better off.

This is a big benefit of using a Page.

I found one page:
http://ryancollins.org/u/4m

I’ll have to look and see if I can find more. Euclid City Schools (http://www.euclidschools.org/) has a Facebook group, but one big advantage of a page over a group is that a page is public to everyone, it doesn’t require a Facebook account to view.

A frequent concern I read/hear is not just that my students can see my content, but that I can see THEIR content. I like the lack of personableness that could come with a teacher/classroom Page, but fear that the proverbial Appropriateness Barrier would still be crossed if teachers are put into sticky situations with reporting/not-reporting inappropriate content (party pictures, cyber-bullying, etc.)

Are you aware of any other classroom Pages? I like the idea but would like to see some working examples.

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