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 I am constantly advocating for other school leaders and educators to embrace this powerful tool to improve communications, enhance public relations, establish a positive brand presence, grow professionally through the formation of a Personal Learning Network (PLN), increase student engagement, and discover a world of opportunity.

For the last two weeks, I've been engaged in a very interesting experiment. Five faculty members from the Fashion and Apparel department have agreed to explore social media for personal productivity, professional development, curriculum redesign, and program promotion.

Thanks Mathieu for sharing the presentation with me so I can catch up with the rest of the class. It's going to be a very useful learning process. I also think your presentation to FASH 325 would be good to give to students earlier in their UD career. I was thinking about FASH 210, a course on FASH sustainability and business ethics in the Fashion Industry. These sessions will make us more sustainable!

Thanks Martha. I think you're right that students need to be exposed earlier to this, but I also think that we could chunk the session up in little parts, where I wouldn't necessarily need to be directly involved.

List of tools used to support online conversations.

""During one of the keynotes," he explained, "I found myself really wanting to hear what others at the conference thought about the speaker's ideas, so I visited Twitter on my loaner device to do just that. I found that there was a rich back-channel conversation going on there, so I created a Twitter account for myself and jumped in." "It wasn't until that moment," he says, "that I realized that Twitter could be a medium for smart, engaging conversations, too. I've been an active user ever since.""

A media guru shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.

The book I'm reading right now. Focuses largely on 21st century literacy.

The Internet connects us in unprecedented ways. To prepare students to flourish in this new learning world, schools will need to transform themselves in important ways. This book is a road map for any educator thinking about using the web for learning. Build your own learning network, and use learning networks in the classroom and schoolwide to improve student outcomes.

One of the books I was talking about.

"Pinterest is a place where we can demonstrate: 'If it weren't for all those mundane things that I do that I post on Facebook, this is what I would be doing and consuming. Here is my real self"

Setting up a website on WordPress is easy. The abundance of free and Premium WordPress themes has made it a lot easier for website owners to setup professional looking websites within minutes. However, even these professional looking themes need to be properly branded to represent a business

Excellent and further motivation for me to create a couple new websites... My own and a new ESRAB site! Sound like good summer projects.... If I can find the time.

This is great especially since I am thinking about starting to blog later this summer. I was wondering about the idea of leaving room for others though... Does that mean don't share all the ideas/a definitive answer, or something related to the actual length of the blog (like ith the need ton leave space on a tweet for retweet purposes)! Also optimizing for google searches really just means inserting the key terminology, correct?