A great place for you to visit as you contemplate using Social Media in the classroom is “Facebook for Educators.”
They offer seven rules of engagement:
1. Help develop and follow your school’s policy about Facebook.
2. Encourage student’s to follow Facebook’s guidelines.
3. Stay up to date about safety and privacy settings on Facebook.
4. Promote good citizenship in the digital world.
5. Use Facebook’s pages and groups features to communicate with students and parents.
6. Embrace the digital, social, mobile, and “always-on” learning styles of 21st Century students.
7. Use Facebook as a professional development resource.
Great thoughts!
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