The Half-life of Links and What It Means for School Communications

I am currently reading Randy Krum’s new book, Cool Infographics (disclosure, he gave me a copy). This morning I came across an interesting ...

Display Your Instagram Account or a Hashtag on Your Blog

Last night I Tweeted about a WordPress plug-in that displays my Instagram feed on a new blog I'm developing (more about that in a week ...

What Works and What Doesn't Work In Net Safety Instruction

ConnectSafely produces some excellent materials that you can use to teach students how to use social media responsibly. Recently, I stumble...

The Two Cutest Explanations of Social Media That You'll See Today

There are so many social networks on the web today that it can be hard to keep track of which ones to use for which purposes. Avalaunch Medi...

Instagram, Food, and Regional Differences

I'm not likely to be accused of being a hipster anytime soon, but this evening I did Instagram a picture of part of my dinner. Brown b...

Google Alerts and Your Organization's Digital Reputation

Earlier this week I facilitated a workshop about social media for leaders of schools and organizations. Two of the questions that I posed to...

Social Media in 2013 - Questions for School Leaders to Consider

This morning at the AAFCS conference in Houston, Texas I facilitated a workshop about social media for leaders of organizations. We started...

Social Media for Teachers

Earlier this week I Pinned a nice infographic from Scholastic about social media. The infographic, Social Media for Teachers , isn't te...

A Great Guide to Twitter in the Classroom

For a few years now Sylvia Rosenthal Tolisano has been my go-to person for ideas and information about using social media with elementary sc...

How You Can Connect With Me

From time to time I like to post this information for people who have recently started following Free Technology for Teachers . If you'r...

Social Media Revolution 2011

Inspired by the popular Did You Know? / Shift Happens  series of videos created by Scott McLeod and Karl Fisch Erik Qualman created Socia...

Cell Phones in Schools - My Experiences and More

This afternoon I Tweeted that I was thankful that my school allows teachers and students to use cell phones and social media in the classro...

The Benefits of Social Media for Teachers

Developing an online PLN and the benefits of doing so is something that I've written about more than a handful of times over the last co...

Twitter and Twitter Search in Plain English

I was recently hired to facilitate a short workshop about using social media in high school social studies courses. One of the elements of t...

Everloop - A Monitored Social Network for Tweens

Everloop is a social networking site designed for use by tweens and their parents. Everloop provides tweens with a closed network in which ...

A Book for the School Administrators in Your Life

I've known about this for quite a while, but wasn't sure that I could share it with the world. Now I know for sure that I can, Scott...

7 Tools to Build a Social Network for Your School

Yesterday, I wrote a post containing resources to help schools understand social media . Hopefully, you've passed that post along to the...

Resources to Help Schools Understand Social Media

Updated December 4, 2011 . In the time since I published this post last year I contributed to a book on this topic. What School Leaders Need...

Looking for SXSW Votes

South by Southwest , commonly referred to as SXSW, is a huge technology, business, and entertainment conference held in Texas every March. T...

Hotseat - Backchannel Platform Coming to a Classroom Near You

Some smart IT folks at Purdue University are developing a new platform for hosting classroom backchannel discussions. The new platform is c...