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Social Media in School Libraries

Menu: Uses of Social Media in School Libraries | Learning About Social Media | Blogging | Social Bookmarking | Wikis | Social Networking | Using Social Media in the Classroom | Your Web Safety and Privacy | Other Technologies

Real Life Uses of Social Media by School Librarians

• The Millfield Library Blog - a great blog from a British independent school.
• Ideas for my Elementary School Library - by Martha Badigian on Pinterest.
• Teacher Librarian Wiki - A wiki for school librarians.
• New Caanan High School Facebook Page - An example of a school library Facebook page.
• New York School Librarians Association - On X.

Learning About Social Media

• Social Media and the School Library - An introduction from the National Library of New Zealand.
• AASL's Best Web Sites for Teaching and Learning - A collection of useful internet sites.
• Educational Technology and Mobile Learning Blog - Learn what's new.
• 21 Useful Cloud Computing Resources for Librarians - Find out more about the cloud.
• Teens and Social Media Fact Sheet - From the Pew Research Center, Jan. 5, 2024. What they visit, how often they visit, and how many are on social media constantly
• Library Systems Report 2024. - a report on library technology from American Libraries, May 1, 2024.
• Best Remote Learning Practices for Librarians - by Diana Restifo, Jan 25, 2021. From Tech and Learning

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Social Media Technologies

Blogging

• Blogging in the Classroom - How to get started. Dec. 2020
• Edublogs - Free blogs for educators.
• Fan School - For elementary and middle school students.
• Teaching With Blogs - For students in grades 6 - 12. From Read Write Think.
• Creating Character Blogs - This is a lesson plan for high school students in which they examine existing blogs, and then create one of their own. This is from Read Write Think.
• Learning Clubs: Motivating Middle School Readers and Writers - This lesson plan is from ReadWriteThink.

Social Bookmarking

• Diigo - Save your bookmarks with annotations and comments. You may also share them with others.
• Pinterest - a social bookmarking site.
• All About Pinterest - How to use it instructions from Pinterest.

Social Networking

• Social Media Fact Sheet - From the Pew Research Center for Internet and Technology.
• How to use SnapChat - From SnapChat support.
• How to Use SnapChat: A Complete Beginner's Guide April, 2018.
• How to Use Facebook - From WikiHow
• How to Stay Safe on Facebook - From WikiHow
• How to Use Instagram - From Hub Spot, Nov. 16, 2023
• What you need to know about Threads - the new Meta app. This is an article from CNet, July 10, 2023
• How to Use YouTube - From Lifewire.
• How to Use TikTok - by Pamela Bump at HubSpot
• Safety Guidelines for TikTok - From Tik Tok, April 17, 2024.
• X/Twitter
• The Complete Guide to Twitter /X for Beginners - From WikiHow, March 20, 2024

Social Media in the Classroom

• How Twitter can be used in the classroom - By Janelle Cox at TeachHub.com
• How to Create Social Media Guidelines for Your School - From Edutopia.
• Social Media Policies Always useful to have a policy in place.

Other Very Useful Technologies

• Teaching Podcasting: A Curriculum Guide for Educators - From NPR, Jan 6, 2023.
• Teaching With Podcasts - From Read Write Think.
• Goodreads - A social networking site for readers. You can keep a record of your books and write reviews.
• 6 Tips for Teachers to Use Goodreads in the Classroom
• A GoodReads Lesson Plan
• Library Thing - Catalog your personal collection of books online and connect with people who read the same thing.
• A Librarian's Guide to Creating 2.0 Subject Guides by iLibrarian blog. This is a useful guide to getting started in creating online subject guides.
• LibGuides - An easy way to create at Web 2.0 site for your school library. You will need to pay an annual license fee for the site.
• LinkedIn - Make professional connections. This is an article from Wikipedia.
• Pew Internet and American Life Project - Studies of how technology affects American life.
• Information about e-Book Readers, Tablets, and Apps - From Resources for School Librarians.

Your Web Safety and Privacy

• 6 Ways to Avoid Those Social Media Landmines - From the NEA, 2017.
• How to Delete Your Facebook Account - Information from Facebook.
• How to Delete Your Twitter Account - This is from Twitter/X
• Opt Out of Behavioral Advertising - Advertisers are watching you and the web sites that you visit so that can deliver targeted ads to you. This site, by the Network Advertising Initiative, will help you get rid of the cookies that the advertisers have placed on your computer.
• The National Cybersecurity Alliance - Information for helping you to stay safe online.
• How to Remove Yourself From Internet Search Results and Hide Your Identity - Helpful if you have done something really dumb on the net. This is an article by Charlie Osborne at ZD Net, June 4, 2020.
• Panopticlick - Use Panopticlick to see how safe your browser is from tracking. This is from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

If you are using the Safari browser on the Mac, as I am. Go to the word Safari in the top line of the window. Click on it. There is a menu with the option Privacy Report. choose this and you will find how much you are being tracked across the web and how you change setting to prevent this.

Wikis and Nings

• How to Start a Wiki - From Wiki-How
• How to Create a Wiki - From Surfing the Net with Kids.
• Wiki - This is a search tool which searches wikis. Many wikis are not located through use of major search engines.
• Ning - This is the site for ning creation.

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