What I hope to teach my students this year about social media:

• Use Blogs to stay connected-by using Seesaw students can see their peers’ work within the class, but it would be great if students can see the work of other students in other grade levels or in second grade. I will connect my class blog to other blogs to another colleague in our building using Seesaw. Students will be able to “follow” other students at different grade levels. Students will be able to connect with other students.
• Teach appropriate use of social media in a safe online environment-
• Teach students when and what to “like”, teach students to write an appropriate comment/post, or tweet (in less than 140 characters)
• Teach students how to maintain their feed/wall
• Teach students to write a catchy title that people will want to read
• Teach students to center and take pictures with the ipad camera
• Teach students how to upload pictures and download files
• Teach students how to tag people to a photo or video
• Teach students to take appropriate pictures and videos
• Teach students how to share on a blog
• Teach students what is “public and private”
• Teach students to use appropriate emojis, punctuation and capitalization
• Teach students about cyberbullying and cybersafety
• Teach students how to use proper facial “emoji” emotions when  commenting on peers work