Using parents as twitter reporters

Our district is encouraging parents and staff to use their personal accounts to tweet about various school events.   Simply include @WDMCS in your tweet and we’ll review and possibly retweet it.  We may also  re-publish your information on Facebook or other channels.  Here’s some specific Q&A’s and examples…

Q. Do I need to sign up or register for this?
A. Absolutely not…  just tweet about your favorite events and include the @WDMCS twitter name.

Q. What types of information and events are you looking for?
A.  Any school related events, highlights, or recognitions. 

Q. Are there any examples of what we SHOULD NOT tweet?
A.  For elementary events that take place outside of school, we do NOT want to advertise them prior to the event.  In other words, our practice is NOT to tell everyone where a group of young children will be at a certain location prior to the event.  Instead, we ask that you tweet during or after elementary events that take place outside of school.

Q. Do you have any examples?

 

Don’t unbox the goodies…

This is a complete set of 5 cameras and accessories that each teacher receives in the digital camera course.

I had a chance to confirm again this morning….

 
 

This morning, I sneaked into a Digital Camera course being taught by Katie Seiberling (@MrsSeiberling).   In this course (details at: https://wdmtech.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/digital-camera/),  teachers receive a set of 5 digital cameras and various accessories, along with photo and video editing training. 

I absolutely love the moment when the equipment is handed out, as the cameras and accessories are still in their original boxes and packaging.  About a year ago, we choose to leave the items in their packaging and asked the teachers to unbox them instead.  We weren’t really looking to shift the workload to the teachers, but instead, wanted to see how teachers reacted to this move, and again today, we’ve confirmed that it’s a good move. 

The most frequent response is “It feels like Christmas”, which is why we’ve named it the “Christmas Effect”, which I’ve written about before  (https://wdmtech.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/christmas-effect/)

Here’s some other pictures of this mornings Digital Camera class….