Ten Skills that Every High School TEACHER and STUDENT can have by the end of this week... just follow the links

Can you...
(1)  
Create and build a Personal Learning Plan for each student (and include elements of the 12 Global Skills for success in the 21st Century)?

(2) 
Create and build a Personal Digital Library for each student

(3) 
Create and maintain a Digital Portfolio (similar to students at HighTechHigh.org)

(4)
Know how to "flip the classroom" with videos and email or USB 

(5)
Know how to get word processing software FREE

(6)
Create and maintain a Resume (curriculum vitae or CV in Europe)

(7)
Know how to use Google Drive to store and PUBLICLY SHARE documents via a link.

(8)
Know how to link Scribd.com to Facebook and Twitter

(9)
Know how to make a "net impact" by using social media (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube) to make comments on essays and other items on the internet...  do you maintain a blog?  Do you have Klout?

(10)
Know how to meet on Facebook without giving up privacy.
make a group
make a fan page


Here are some links to get you started:

Here is how:

(1)  
Create and build a Personal Learning Plan for each student  HOW TO INCLUDE PROJECTS

CLICK HERE

http://www2.bw.k12.ri.us/education/dept/dept.php?sectionid=1318

elements of the 12 Global Skills for success in the 21st Century
"Tony Wagner seven survival skills"


(2) 
Create and build a Personal Digital Library for each student
STEVE MCCREA's presentation

(3) 
Create and maintain a Digital Portfolio (similar to students at HighTechHigh.org)

list of digital portfolios

Example of a DP at HighTechHigh.org
Another example

(4)
Know how to "flip the classroom" with videos and email or USB 

(5)

Know how to get word processing software FREE
OpenOffice.org

(6)
Create and maintain a Resume (curriculum vitae or CV in Europe)

NOTE:  Your document will be stored free if you use Google Drive for creating the document

(7)
Know how to use Google Drive to store and PUBLICLY SHARE documents via a link.

(8)
Know how to link Scribd.com to Facebook and Twitter
CLICK HERE  
Look for tips from Bob Finch and Ryan Cohn.

(9)

Know how to make a "net impact" by using social media (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube) to make comments on essays and other items on the internet...  do you maintain a blog?  Do you have Klout?

(10)

Know how to meet on Facebook without giving up privacy.
make a group
make a fan page

TransformTeaching.org

Steve offers a free workshop / training for teachers called "A Youtube channel for every teacher who wants one."  Call (954) 646 8246 for more information.

TheEbookman@gmail.com

(11)  Can you hang posters that will transform classrooms? Download the posters          Poster ebook with theory

Social Media Guru Bob Finch reminds parents to teach young people about "personal thought space"

Teachers and school administrators might be tempted to take the easy road by banning social media.

http://theindependenteducator.blogspot.com/2013/06/can-we-find-middle-way-for-social-media.html


Here's a comment by Social Media expert and consultant, Bob Finch 

I'm not for "banning." The reasonable solution is to begin early in teaching children - as a part of what is 'safe' and 'not safe' - that social media is part of the 'how to handle strangers' rules. I'm sending Katie on a trip to Indiana to stay for week with my nephew. She's 10. The Delta agent I spoke with (for more than an hour) went into great detail about what Katie should wear, how she should handle strangers, what she should and should not talk about (regarding herself) and a host of other 'tips.' 

What we are really transmitting when we explain what 'improper touching' and other potential child abuses is a definition of 'personal space' and how it should be guarded from potential untrustworthy others. With social media being a broadcast medium, we need to instill in children (very early!) notions of personal 'thought space' or 'mind space' and how it should be guarded with equal prudence and diligence. 

Learn more at his Twitter account  @refinch   https://twitter.com/refinch

Let's spread this phrase "personal thought space" and use that phrase with parents.

Try it:  "Has anyone attempted to touch your personal thought space today?"

Parents often object if a paroled pedophile is found to live within two miles of their child's school.   Those same parents might not know the privacy setting on their child's twitter and facebook accounts...  their child could be sharing information with "friends" made over Facebook.
Bob Finch adds:

It really should encompass a new way of thought about teaching 

kids how to guard their privacy whether it is personal space or 

thought space. Rumors used to get passed from person to person verbally...

now there is an electronic trail. Rumors are now immortal.  

The old way was transient.

Perhaps the language needs to be more explicit?  Perhaps the  following:

As a high school teacher, my role is to intrude into a student's thought space... but it's so much more successful if the student is chasing the idea rather than trying to block the door.  This campaign that Bob Finch is advocating is more about strangers and educators who are going beyond the limits of their professional duty.

How to Promote Lifelong Learning and Random "Teaching Moments": (1) Connect with your students on Facebook, YouTube and other social media, (2) Post only items that are favorable to the education of students and (3) Set your settings at "Public."

Why should a teacher make his website and Facebook account public?  Why should a teacher connect with students?  Why should a teacher set photos on "public"?

Here's the "Sad Songs Say So Much" video

Here's a short clip from a workshop that I gave in April 2013.  This clip appeared on my Facebook activity.  My students (who are connected to my Facebook account) can see what I'm doing.   

Why is it important for students to see an adult's activity on the Internet?  Because my Facebook work shows that teachers really do useful things outside the classroom.  Youtube uploads, Scribd.com documents, tweets can all help students see that there are productive things that adults do with social media.

When a Youtube account is connected to a Facebook account,
the activities are captured

Some of my mentors include Ryan Cohn of WhatsNextMarketing and Bob Finch from ifinch.net.  Both Bob and Ryan have demonstrated the use of social media in business settings and their work shows me how to act responsibly with various accounts.   Some of their tips:  (1) connect your accounts so when you post on Scribd.com, your contacts on Facebook learn about the update.  (2) connect widely.  Take time to create an account on the following:  twitter, facebook, scribd.com, youtube.com, tumbler, stumbleupon, and consider the advantages of Sites Google, Vimeo,  (3) take the time to clic on other people's projects and ask them to click on your projects.  This shared clicking will increase the traffic that is counted by Klout.com.    I recently saw this post on Facebook by Ryan:  

Had a great time speaking at the Social Fresh East Conference in Tampa. Big thanks to Jason, Corey, Nick and many others. Check out the slides from my presentation, "What Doesn't My CEO Get About Social Media?" here:http://bit.ly/Social_CEO (2 photos)    [ post by Ryan Cohn ]

This is an example of the "activity log" that
a Facebook account maintains.  Look at these
multiple postings of videos to my YouTube account.

So I reposted this link and added the following: Ryan Cohn will be seen 20 years from now as one of the quiet advocates of social media for business. I hope he creates a "social media handbook" for teens so my students can practice today building skills for use in their careers. If you are a teacher, link with Ryan and learn about the future. They say that our students are preparing for jobs that haven't been invented yet. Learn more about Ryan's work and you'll join me in staring at the future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHNBaxBdgWc

Here's a student who lives on a long island in the Caribbean who would like to interact with my students.  We talked about her favorite song, "Beautiful Goodbye" by Maroon Five.  

These moments are available to my students.  My teenaged students can get a glimpse of the world that they will enter soon and they can ask me about these experiences.

So, mentors, show us your best side.  Share your special traits and strengths.  Send me your highlights and show us your workspace.   See what BoxOfCrayons did with a 9-minute office tour.

This is a valuable exercise.  Help my students tour an office.  Let students see what is real in the "real world."  ... and do the tour on Facebook, where my students live.   That's why I have seen that teachers (and mentors) can have impact on students' lives through social media.

People might object to a teacher who "exposes" students to the adult world.  My aim is to show my students things that are true, pure, honest, lovely, just, of good report, ... let's think on these things.