Are You Part of the 33 Million?
On Mondays I share a different ed tech quote on our Thompson Classroom social media pages for our staff to consider.
As we get closer to our first formal reporting period in Manitoba it is also an important time to reflect on the communication strategy you are utilizing at a school or classroom level. Schools are working to share their plans for parent-teacher conferences and important upcoming dates such as:
- report card deliveries
- meeting times
- winter concerts
While traditional strategies such as school newsletters, student agendas, and email groups continue to be utilized. New additions such as social media can also play a role when it comes to reaching a higher number of stakeholders:
As opposed to more traditional communication methods such as phone calls or television announcements that rely on stakeholders being available at a particular time, tools such as social media are popular with stakeholders because they can be accessed and interacted with at any time; gone are the days of playing “telephone tag” (Hines, Edmonson, & Moore, 2008, p. 283).
https://fishbowlteaching.com/2017/11/principals-on-social-media-why-should/
MVSD has 80+ accounts across a variety of platforms as part of their communications strategy.
You can read some of my thoughts on social media in the following posts:
– Social Media Divisional Recommendations for Best Practice
– Are You Using Twitter Chats?
– Encouraging Student Voice Through Social Media
– Using Social Media for Online Learning
– Reflecting on My Personal Learning Network
– Principals on Social Media: Why Should You Get Online?