Social media etiquette and using tools to support connected learning

     This week we had to read chapter 5 in The Connected Educator all about using tools to support connected learning.  Social bookmarking helps keep your important and to keep everything organized and to avoids overloading. Good websites for bookmarking and tagging are Delicious and Diigo (which i discussed in a previous blog).  My favorite part of the reading was the discussion on blogs, of course they are journal like entries or post like mine. Edublog is a blog made for educators that allows them to communicate with students and their parents which I think is pretty great especially for parents. Two blog readers the chapter discussed was RSS Readers, and Google Reader (which has been discontinued) but these allow you to subscribe and it updates new content instead of showing a bunch of websites. Microblogs such as Twitter, Wikis, and google documents they allow you to share info quickly and swiftly with PLN's.  The advice the chapter gives is build your own professional web page or blog, stack the deck in your favor, share your insights, be professional, and track yourself.

     This week had to be the most nerve wrecking, anxiety ridden night of class ever. We had to present our social media etiquette presentation, I chose Officer Robert Garceau. A 20 year police officer who was fired over a Facebook post:

this was posted while he was still duty. A citizen was the one who saw the post and was completely taken back they went into the police department to bring it to their attention. The city of Flint MI, this violates their social media policy and the police officers code of conduct. Officer Garceau made this post because of the recent string of homicides in the city especially a recent one were 1 person was killed and the other in critical condition. Nothing has been stated on whether his motion went to court but he was in the middle of filing it in August 2015. Honestly we need to pay attention to what we post it can cost us everything and nothing we can do to erase it from the web. 

This was the video I used, it is the perfect example of being careful what you say, if you wouldn't say it to your boss you shouldn't post it.