Medfield Digital Learning Day 2017

Learn simple ways to utilize Twitter as a tool for parent communication and PR! We will share our #180daysofawesome as well as ideas for use of hashtags. We will highlight positive results and brainstorm ways to get your students involved!

In this differentiated workshop, participants of all comfort levels will get hands-on with Snapchat. Whether you want to learn what Snapchat is, share your experiences with Snapchat, and/or learn how it, and social media tools can play a role in the 21st Century classroom, this session is for you.

Come explore the Twitterverse with Jason Heim (@jasonjheim) and Nat Vaughn (@nat_vaughn)! Learn how using Twitter as both an informational and networking medium allows users to be on the cutting edge of educational practices to enhance student learning.  This workshop is for all educators (both social media fans and those with 'socialmediaphobia' - learn about tweets, hashtags, following and being followed, TweetDeck, Twitter chats, Spotify, and more. We hope to share lessons about Twitter and highlight how the educators at Blake are building professional learning networks and using the tool to enhance the learning environment at Blake. Bring your own device, an established Twitter account (we can help with that), and a willingness to learn!
Link to Slides:  http://tinyurl.com/dldmedtweeps 

It is no secret students love to share their ideas. What about if they had the opportunity to do so with their classroom community, school community, town, state, and the world? Allowing students to blog gives them an authentic experience to write and share ideas. Discover how one elementary teacher started the journey into student blogging. See the process she went through, receive materials she uses with students, and read through blogs students have created.
Student blogging has not only given students a voice, it allows for personalized learning. Each individual student receives specific feedback on blogs which helps him/her grow as writers. Grammar and typing skills improve! Students have also learned about the importance of citing sources and using images from Creative Commons. The possibilities of what student blogging brings to the classroom are endless!