Engaging Parents
Published on Nov 20, 2015
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Engaging Parents
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*created by Emily Hooker
ITRT at Richmond Public Schools
ITRT at Richmond Public Schools
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How can you use Instagram in your classroom?
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Showcase student work.
Snap pictures of students' artwork and other special projects to share on a private Instagram account only accessible to families and others in your school community.
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Feature a student of the week
Invite students to alternate "taking over" your classroom Instagram account and sharing photos from their daily lives. Then have the featured student share his or her photos with the class.
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Capture field trip memories
Invite a student volunteer "archivist" to take photos on your field trips or during class parties and share them on your Instagram account.
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Share reading recommendations
Invite students to snap photos of their favorite books and then browse the photos in your feed for more ideas on what to read. Other classes can "favorite" or comment on them as well!
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Record steps in a science experiment
Watch as a plant unfurls or a chemical compound slowly changes colors—and keep the changes preserved on Instagram.
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Go on a scavenger hunt
Challenge kids to find specific items: print in the world around them—on signs, packaging and in the mail. The world is wide open!
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Discover ideas for writing
Tap an "inspiration fairy" to take 10 photos that could serve as a prompt for writing—an empty bird's nest, a For Sale sign and a broken doll, for instance.
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Document student progress
Snap photos of student's writing at the beginning and end of the year. Order inexpensive prints from sites such as Prinstagr.am to show students how far they have come!
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Recreate A moment in history
Explore a moment in history by imitating a vintage photo from the public domain. First, provide students with the photo's historical context. Then have them act out that photo, or a scene like it, and use filters to make the image appear older. Students will have their very own re-enactment of history to share! Instagram also allows for video, so students could also act out a scene from history in the form of a short film.
Twitter Basics:
- Username: Everyone has a unique username. In order to talk to someone on Twitter, you have to address them by their username, preceded by an @ symbol. For @Olivemyboston is my username.
Twitter Basics:
- Follow: You follow people on Twitter to see their updates (similar to friending someone on Facebook), but in this case you don't need their permission unless their Twitter account is set to private.
Twitter Basics:
- Tweets: A tweet is a message. You have 140 characters, including spaces, to put down your thoughts. Type your message in the What’s happening? text box on your homepage, and click the Tweet button to send a tweet.
Twitter Basics:
- Retweet: When you repost a message from someone else, you're retweeting it. Usually these messages are preceded by RT, though sometimes you'll see them preceded by MT, or "modified tweet." A modified tweet isn't an exact duplicate of the original; it has been edited in some way, usually for length so the retweeter can add their own commentary or a link.
Twitter Basics:
- @replies: When you want to reply to a particular tweet, you can click the Reply button or the backward arrow next to the tweet you want to reply to.
Twitter Basics:
- Hashtag: Words after a # symbol are hashtags, which can be used to track conversations or topics on Twitter. You can easily search for hashtags to find information or chats.
Hashtags for Educators
- To find great new content, it's all about the hashtags. The hashtags I started with were #edchat and #edtech. On Monday nights at 8pm there is a #VAchat Such great conversations!
Hashtags for Educators
- Hashtag: Words after a # symbol are hashtags, which can be used to track conversations or topics on Twitter. You can easily search for hashtags to find information or chats.
- To find great new content, It's all about the hashtags. The hashtags I started with were #edchat and #edtech. On Monday nights at 8pm there is a #VAchat Such great conversations!
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What is it?
- Pinterest is a website that allows you to "pin" things online, just as you would pin them on a real life bulletin board, but instead, Pinterest saves all of your pins on your account so that you can access them easily. Plus, you can follow friends on Pinterest and "repin" things that they have already pinned on your boards or browse a live feed of items that are being pinned by strangers when you're searching for inspiration.
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Community boards
- Group Teacher Projects
- General Parent Boards
- Class Party Ideas
- Homework Review
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Pin Book Covers
Capitalize on the visual power of Pinterest to show off book covers, especially those from new books, special collections, and kid-friendly material. It can be a great way to attract readers to books they might not have otherwise checked out.
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Curate Reading Lists for Parents
Pinterest makes it simple to create visually appealing reading lists for just about every topic under the sun. Some common lists include books made into movies, librarian recommendations, and kid-friendly fare.
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