Are your schools using social media to communicate?
I have a story coming this week about how Jeffrey Bryan, Red Lion Area School District’s buildings and grounds director, has taken to Twitter to keep people posted on the work going on in school...
View ArticleMapping social media around York County’s schools
I’ve been working to use the online tool GatheringPoint to create maps to help people follow social media in their school districts. I’ve made 16 maps, each one focusing on the area around the...
View ArticleTime to visit classrooms! Where should I go?
Last spring, I emailed York County school officials and told them I’d like to spend time in their classrooms. I said I wanted to tweet, blog, and create videos to give the community an idea of what’s...
View ArticleDo students’ social media habits matter when it comes to college admissions?
So you’re applying to college. You’ve filled out the applications, written the essays, taken the standardized tests. Have you also … strategically untagged yourself from certain photos on Facebook?...
View ArticleElizabethtown College uses social media to spread college acceptance excitement
Elizabethtown College has found a way to spread the excitement of college acceptance through social media. Last year, the college redesigned its acceptance packet and invited those accepted to share...
View ArticleHow do you prefer to get your school closing news?
Tomorrow’s impending snow made me recall this blog post, which someone tweeted a few weeks ago. The author, Andy Bechtel, asked his son, a seventh-grader, how he and his friends find out about...
View ArticleRecap from the April 17 York City School Board meeting
See my tweets from the last York City School Board meeting below. Read the story here.
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