Here’s Your Chance To Use Social Media In Your School And Save $100

The Social Media Schools Master Course training modules are now complete! The 6 modules of the course are designed to quickly and easily walk you through the process of using social media in your school as a marketing, promotion, and communication tool.

If you are serious about succeeding with social media use in your school, I’ve arranged a special, one-time only discount of $100 if you register for the course before midnight on Tuesday, August 18th. But if you wait and order after this date, the price will go up!

As an added bonus… and because I’m so sure you’ll be able to quickly and easily implement the information I’ve made available to you inside the Social Media Schools Master Course… (and because I don’t want you to worry about feeling ripped off) I’m offering a 100% money-back guarantee, which will be immediate, hassle-free, and with no questions asked. If you take the information I’ve made available inside the Social Media Schools Master Course, try it, and aren’t absolutely thrilled with the resources I’ve made available to you, just let me know and I’ll give you a full refund with no questions asked.

What are you waiting for? The 2009-2010 school year is here… and there couldn’t be a better time to start using social media in your school!

Click here to learn more and/or register now for the Social Media Schools Master Course.

Act Quickly Or Perish – Good Advice For Schools

Yesterday I released my highly anticipated Social Media Schools Education & Technology Manifesto. In preparation for the manifesto’s launch I wrote about the report here on SocialMediaSchools.com, sent a blast out to my email subscribers using Aweber and notified my followers on Twitter and Facebook. 

About fifteen minutes after the report was released I got a message from Bill, one of my email newsletter subscribers, telling me there was a mistake with the link at the end of the report. 

“Oh no!” I thought. “I just sent that report out to EVERYONE!!! What am I going to do?” 

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Social Media Schools Now Available On The Amazon Kindle

The Amazon Kindle is a handheld electronic device made for reading digital e-books, PDFs and blogs. The Kindle, much like an iPod or MP3 player, which play music files, allows you to carry a large number of digital books and electronic documents in your pocket. (The Kindle is capable of playing music files as well.)

The Amazon Kindle is currently being used in schools around the world… and the introduction of the new large screen Kindle DX is currently being marketed as a device more suitable for displaying newspaper and textbook content. 

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Social Media Schools Cause Stir On Twitter

Just a few days ago schools in the UK announced that they would be teaching primary school students how to blog, use Twitter, Wikipedia and other social media tools as part of their regular educational curriculm. 

Then Birmingham City University came out with a statement announcing that they would be offering a Masters Degree in Social Media for students who planned to enter a profession such as journalism or public relations.

The back to back release of this information is making the social media world leap with excitement. I assume much of the buzz is due to the fact that the people now using sites such as Twitter and Facebook wish they had been given access to such tools when they were in school, but nevertheless, the buzz persists. 

Don’t believe me? Just check out some of the chatter I found through a Twitter Search on the subject “social media schools”.

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Controversey Over UK’s Social Media Education Plan

The recent news that schools in the UK are planning to not only use, but teach social networking, in the classroom is causing quite a stir.

The issue isn’t soley the fact that UK primary schools plan to teach social media techniques in the classroom, but that they plan to reduce or eliminate the amount of time spent studying key areas of history – such as the Victorians and World War II.

That said, some are now realizing what an intelligent move this might be, as World War II (for example) is covered in depth during middle school, and repeating the information to students in primary schools seems like a waste of time.  

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UK Students Now Being Taught Social Media In Elementary School

The Guardian recently published an article announcing the fact that UK schools will now be teaching their students how to use social media.

Many are praising the news as extremely forward thinking on part of the UK school system, while others fear that the classes may become a case of the students teaching the teachers – as many of these students already use social media tools and may indeed use them more frequently than the teachers who are being paid to give the classes. 

Already, it seems, the Teachers Union is fighting back – doing what they can to maintain the status quo. They’re upset because they were not involved in early discussions about the change in curriculum and were only given three days to respond to the news. 

While the current plan is to teach students how to use blogs, Twitter, and Wikipedia, this increase in coursework will mean cutting out the large amount of time previously spent studying the Victorians, World War II and other traditional elementary school subjects. 

It seems as though some individuals get what this change is all about. Mary Bousted, the general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said: “Children need to be enthused by learning, so they want to learn and gain the skills which will enable them to learn in later life. The debate is not about whether the Victorians are in there or not.”

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