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Using social media in the classroom

Social Media Trends for 2015 Pullquote: "While other trends-like real-time content creation and "social" wearables--will accompany this shift, the year of social business will be exemplified by: the rise of branded communities, the fall of haphazard Facebook and Twitter strategies, and the coming of age of comprehensive social business solutions.

"Maintain an authentic online identity" (CBKB, n.d., para. 2). This is a very interesting, unique and true policy. Given our staff professional credibility, the policy suggested "make sure your identity can be verified in your contributions to online social network.". CBKB further suggested when created accounts on social networks, include a link to our staff profile that leads to a web page to identify their professionalism.

How online social networking facilitates learning in schools and libraries This article is adapted from a toolkit created by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, in 2007. You can learn more about YALSA and social networking by visiting http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/yalsa.cfm What are social networking technologies?

Great article about how to incorporate social media into schools.

Interesting article. I agree with this - I worked in a children's hospital for 8 years as the Information Specialist and one interesting note was the changing addictions and information needed by the psychologists and that was on social media, internet addiction and how that affects mental health. Thanks for sharing!

This policy informs Western Australia Department of Education employees of the potential damage their personal use of social media can directly or indirectly affect the Department. Specific areas of interest in this policy include the legitimate and non-legitimate use of social media, the identification of key risk areas, and the duty of care towards students.

Although this policy relates to American schools, it recognises that the same principles used for employee social media use in Australia are relevant everywhere. The policy includes a lot of the same information as the Australian examples, however, ends with a detailed Frequently Asked Questions section that would be extremely useful to employees seeking clarification in regards to general, personal and student social media use.

Whilst not a social media policy, the Queensland's Department of Education Standard of Practice document is an example of how principles relating to the appropriate use of social media can be communicated as part of a larger document that aims to clarify the ethical principles, values and standards of conduct that employees are expected to abide by.

The 2015 update to our definitive social media glossary.

"Please be careful with account names that resemble Fuji Xerox's official accounts. Current official account in Hong Kong is listed below:" (Fuji Xerox Hong Kong, n.d., para. 6.2). Fuji Xerox Hong Kong wants to make sure their employee and customers know which official channels are in Youtube, Facebook and Linkedln. A list of official channels ensure their customer communicate with the right authority.

Using negative social media feedback

Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com. A few weeks ago, I wrote that your organization should have a social media policy, and one of the things I heard among all the great comments was: "Okay, but what should it say?"

The guidance argues seven main points to write social media policy: examine the school culture, organize team, research phase, draft document and incorporate feedback, make sure school attorney and school board to see the draft, introduction to the school community, and review periodically. It is crucial the policy is supported by school board and promote the policy so that community knows well the policy.Policy should be review periodically to ensure it meets school culture.

This website provides guidance and examples for social media policy prepared by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The guidance points out analysing policy target is essential. The step by step guidance with Facebook, Twitter and text messages leads the focal points to write policy. The website also provides its policies as example for references.

This article pointed out how government plan the social media policy and manage their services. The challenges and problem-solving of the policy issues are shown. Privacy, law issues, security and implementation issues are shown in case or table. Future plan is explained for how to improve the social media policy and implement in efficient.