Social Media

Examples and Resources

The list is growing every day! More and more educators are adding social media tools to reach parents and community. (This list includes just a few examples and is not represented as complete.)

Twitter

• Midland Community Schools
• Newell Fonda Community Schools
• New London Community Schools
• New London Community Schools
• Iowa Department of Education
• A round-up of school districts and buildings using Twitter around the U.S.
  

Facebook

• Iowa Department of Education

• The former Boyer Valley Conference

• Iowa High School Speech Association

• Bishop Heelan Catholic High School

• Pella Community School District

Blogs

• Hampton-Dumont High School—Principal Trent Grundmeyer’s blog
• Edublog award winners:
  • http://www.missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/
  • http://kootmansclass.blogspot.com/
  • http://alupton.wordpress.com/

Resources:

• Need more practical examples of how school district are using social media? Check this article in THE Journal here.
• Need help developing school policies around the use of social media? Consider these resources:
• http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2009/ 05/04/the-digital-citizen/
• http://pluggedin.wiki.hoover.k12.al.us/InternetSafety
• School districts can take some tips from the business world in selecting district guidelines for the use of social media tools like Twitter. Check out the Twitter Code of Conduct from BusinessWeek.