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Hello Forrest and Debs,

 

I work for the Scottish Book Trust as Schools Resource Developer and we find that schools, nurseries and libraries also use Twitter quite extensively now too. This is generally more for networking and sharing information/activities with parents. We tend not to have great uptake for events from Twitter and generally use more traditional channels for that.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Best wishes,

 

Hannah

 

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From: Forrest Howie
Sent: 05 February 2020 12:36
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Schools and social media

 

Hi there,

Scottish primary teacher here, hope this helps.   I’m a member of the Scottish Primary Teachers Facebook group. It was set up and run by teachers and isn’t official. It is the best forum and info sharing place I’m on however.  I think we’ve got more teachers there than signed up to GLOW (the official platform).    It’s a great place to share info, have a moan, ask for recommendations etc.  I think fb works well because it’s easy to share and tag others.  

I know some teachers, esp USA based ones, like Instagram.  Pinterest obviously works beautifully and I know a lot of us use that.  This suggests that we all like very visual and practical things.  

Classes in my school use a blog to keep parents updated. It’s not perfect and can be seen as an ‘addition’ to the work we already have to do.  

Hope this helps. Happy to discuss more. 

Yours,

Forrest Howie

 



On 5 Feb 2020, at 11:59, Debra Cox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:



Hi Collective Mind,

 

I hope you are all well on this bright sunny morning.

 

Does anyone have any evidence or experience of schools and how they and particularly teachers are using social media platforms?

 

I’m interested to know if they use social media for any of the following:

 

as a tool to find learning events and activities for their pupils,

the above for themselves,

for networking

to share information/activity with parents

 

If anyone has anything they can share with me that would be great.

 

Thank you so much,

With best wishes,

Debs

 

 

Debra Cox  |  Public Programme Manager

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