Social Network Websites: their Benefits and Risks. A guide for school leaders

Introduction

A great introduction to social network websites, written especially for school leaders

Social networking is one of the fastest developing areas of new technology, presenting schools with new challenges and missed opportunities. Do you know how it is being used in your school?

This concise eBook by Paul Haigh will put you in the picture and help you to ensure your school policy and practice take account of the popularity and growth of social network websites.

Some teachers and pupils are getting into trouble using social networking sites; many school leaders are social network 'beginners' who are not aware of the risks and many schools are failing to exploit the potential of the technology for learners and school improvement, falling behind other areas of everyday life where computing and the internet are pervasive.

Social Network Websites: their Benefits and Risks provides basic, essential information to bring you up to date with the development of this technology, and the handy eBook format enables you to share the full contents with colleagues quickly and easily for just £17. 

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Summary of contents

This eBook is an accessible 'beginner's guide' with useful tips for school leaders and aims to give you: 

• a basic grounding in the nature of social network websites and Web 2.0 technologies
• discussion of the problems and challenges
• inspiration for teaching and learning potential and staff professional development potential.
  

The ideas for school use, suggestions for policies, glossary and weblinks make this a resource schools can use among a wider team repeatedly rather than just once.

Benefits

With this eBook you will:

• find out about the risks and benefits of social network websites
• learn about the power of social networking for learning, teaching and communicating
• update your staff on the issues to be aware of
• review and revise your policies to reflect the new issues presented by social network websites
• store and share the eBook on your intranet / VLE and forward it to all members of staff who will benefit.

Watch author Paul Haigh speak about Open Source at BETT2010.

 

Chapter breakdown

Social Network Websites: Their Benefits and Risks comprises the following sections: 

1. What is social networking?
2. How students use social networking
3. The risks and the problems students have
4. How teachers use social networks
5. How teachers get it wrong
6. How schools use social networking and Web 2.0 tools in teaching and learning
7. Suggested items for school policies and guidelines
8. Glossary
9. Weblinks

Details

Site licence for school-wide use. eBook supplied as email attachments in both PDF and ePub versions for you to choose from. Simply log-in to download your eBooks as many times as you wish.

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Testimonials

'What a really good document - please thank Paul Haigh on our behalf. We have been trying to pull this together this year as part of our work on online safety and this will be very useful indeed.'

Headteacher, St. Mary's Catholic Primary School, Doncaster

'The book is timely, and as up-to-date as you’d expect from an eBook, available to download in both PDF and ePub formats. It will be an eye-opener for non-technical readers and a very useful summary of priorities for network managers and ICT leaders.'
  Gerald Haigh (no relation of the author), The TES, 19 February 2010
 http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6036342

Read an excerpt, published in The Leader (ACSL magazine) February 2010:

http://www.leadermagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=1623