Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged facebook
The Social You vs The Professional You
Aug 23rd
The last couple of working days and the rest of this week I’ve been talking with high school students about why we (ISB) have given them a blog to start building their ‘Professional You‘.
When I put it in terms of Facebook is the ‘Social You’…the you with your friends, and the you while hanging out. Then your blog is and should become the ‘Professional You’. The place you mold who you are, what you are interested in, and where you want to go. The you you want colleges and universities to know about, that you want your employers to know about. The More >
Aug 21st
- Facebook is the new Google
- It has become both a noun and a verb
- With over 400 million users it is the largest social-network on the web
- Everyone, including parents and teachers are already using it
- Parents are getting younger……they get it
- Facebook has replaced e-mail for many people
- Facebook has more privacy settings then most Internet sites
- Not using Facebook to communicate with your school/class community is like not using Google to search
- It is the future
- It is the now
- For every negative reason to block Facebook there is a positive reason as well.
- It’s mobile
- It’s always on
- Students are already using it (ISB HS More >
Are we teaching Networked Literacy
Jun 27th
The two best sessions for me at Edubloggercon today at ISTE2010 ended up talking about Networks and teaching how to use networks with students. For lack of a better term we called it “Networked Literacy”
I first started thinking about this back in August after reading Writing in the 21st Century by Kathleen Yancey (worth your time).
Based on that reading I created this diagram that looks at today’s literacy development.
The pyramid represents the amount of time we spend teaching different types of literacy. Print Literacy is still the bases of our teaching in schools. Some of us and some schools are starting to bring More >803 Downloads to cap off a week to remember
Jun 17th
(Prepare yourself it’s a long one!)
(Read to the bottom to find out why it took me over 12 hours to post this reflection!) What a week this has been and with the launch of the book today, it’s made it all the more amazing of a week.
As of this writing, Reach was downloaded 801 times today. My networks and communities once again surpassed my expectations. As I told my wife yesterday, I’d be tickled if 200 people downloaded the Free PDF. To have 800+ do it in the first day alone is just mind boggling. As I say in the book, More >
Teaching Filtering Skills More Important Than Ever!
May 19th
(Thank you everyone for your concern! We are all safe in Bangkok this evening with Government imposed curfew on the city)
I’m not sure what the news is like about the Bangkok protests outside of Thailand. But inside of Thailand is has been sporadic at best. Leaving people wanting to know and turning to constantly updated streams of information such as Facebook and Twitter.
Twitter has made it big within our school community. Many teachers, students, and parents have been following different hash tags or lists. Popular Twitter hash tags have been #bangkok #redshirts #redshirt #thaicrisis.
Here’s the issue…..everyone has an opinion and both sides have been using More >
Celebrating Teachers – Jim Fitzgerald
Apr 24th
As I mentioned in my last post what I love about this COETAIL program is it allows me to see education across the grade levels.
Earlier this week I was in Jim Fitzgerald’s Higher Level Year 1 IB English Class (11th Graders), where students were working on a Semester Long Unit on Ekphrasis.
Students are using their blogs as a way to document their learning (creating e-portfolios). We have a few teachers in the high school using blogs with students and I had an opportunity yesterday to chat with them in Mr. Fitz’s class about their blogs.
You have to love an English teacher who More >
One Bad Twitter ‘Tweet’ Can Cost you 30 Students
Nov 29th
Well….maybe not yet, but in the coming year if you are a private or international school you better be monitoring and using these new social tools to engage new students and families.
A Bloomberg report came out earlier this week titled: One Bad Twitter ‘Tweet’ Can Cost 30 Customers, Survey Shows.
A negative review or comment on the Twitter, Facebook or Youtube Web sites can lose companies as many as 30 customers, according to a survey by Convergys Corp.
Word of Mouth (WOM) is enigmatic - fairly straightforward and simple to understand yet elusive and difficult to engage, spread and sustain. Flickr ID: Intersection More >
