Short presentation regarding the shift in education still needs to be based on building relationships. Social media gives us another opportunity to do this!

1. Unintended Benefits:
Using Social Media to Learn and Build Relationships in Schools

2. About Me

3. Relationships

4. Goals of the presentation
To share the
following:
• How we use social media in our school?
• Why we use social media in schools?
• Share some of the impact that it has had.

6. The How

7. My Journey

8. You are not into
sharing?

11. http://georgecouros.ca
http://connectedprincipals.com

12. The School

14. The Why

15. The Obvious
Critical Thinking Collaboration
Communication Creativity

17. The Obvious
Digital Literacies
(From National Council of Teachers of English)
Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes
Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information
Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

19. Bonus!
Enhanced
Relationships

24. Creating Connections

25. Connected Principals

26. It’s fun!

27. The
Impact

31. Identity Day

34. We need to become connectors
From: http://uowblogs.com/digckdlh705/files/2010/08/social-network.jpg

36. Contact Me
Email - gec127@gmail.com Email - gcouros@psd70.ab.ca
Twitter - @gcouros Blog - georgecouros.ca

37. References and Resources
Why Teachers Should Blog - http://davidwees.com/content/why-teachers-should-
blog-helpful-flowchart
The Principal of Change - http://georgecouros.ca
Connected Principals - http://connectedprincipals.com
Forest Green School - http://forestgreenschool.ca