"Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage." ~ Amy Jo Martin.
The three social media sites I might use to communicate my policy issue
are www.LinkedIn.com, www.YouTube.com, and www.instagram.com
The benefit of using LinkedIn is that I am reaching out to other early childhood education professionals that understand the the plus and minus of professional development practitioners workshops. However, the challenge I face is making sure the content posted does encourage the professionals of early childhood education to seek a more productive format for professional development in early childhood education. For example, LinkedIn has options to join forums where one can create a forum or join a forum. Each time a post is made one will receive an email to continue the conversation.
The benefit of using YouTube is that I am reaching to everybody that does a search for early childcare, professional development, children, learning, and teachers. My videos would display the good and the bad in professional development workshops, in hope non-early childhood education professional might understand the the plus and minus of professional development practitioners workshops. However, the challenge I face is making sure the content uploaded encourage professionals of early childhood education to seek a more productive format for professional development in early childhood education. For example, I posted a public service announce (PSA) on YouTube about bullying. The video was viewed and and liked by many, giving information on other ways to overcome bullying.
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking that allow one to connect with the world. This site would allow post pictures and videos on actual workshops and the lack of practitioner's participation in the workshops.
The benefit of using Instagram is that I am reaching out to the medical and educational professions in hope the pictures taken show practitioners that are engaged in classroom activities based on professional development workshops the plus and minus of professional development practitioners workshops. However, the challenge I face is making sure the pictures posted does encourage the professionals of early childhood education to seek a more productive format for professional development in early childhood education. For example, I posted pictures of a daycare center and the teachers as they worked with the children. The center received wonderful phone calls from potential clients based upon the pictures.
The audience for LinkedIn might
include the community of professionals that teach, direct, or hire early childhood education teachers, the format might be how the skills of a better professional development
workshop would benefit the practitioners opposed to the current format. This audience
is directly connected to the practitioners and this audience know what is expected, or,
what they expect in a professional practitioner. The audience for YouTube is an open audience, because the support is
needed from those this policy might benefit as well as, those that can
financially support this policy. The audience for Instagram would focus on those that work with children in the medical and educational fields.
There is a percentage of supporters, professionals, practitioners, and parents in society that traditional networking might never reach, however, due to the many social media mediums networking will never be the same.
There is a percentage of supporters, professionals, practitioners, and parents in society that traditional networking might never reach, however, due to the many social media mediums networking will never be the same.
Hi Synera,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your ideal social media of using LinkIn, You Tube, and Instagram to help promote your policy issues of "practitioner's professional development workshop." I am interested in utilizing "You Tube." I have seen You Tube videos of step-by-step instruction in how to cook using a simple recipe of soup or sew a button. With my pre-k students, I constantly utilize You Tube cartoon videos of St. Patrick's Day, Peter Cotton Tail, Easter Bunny, Cat in the Hat, and other seasonal festivities that young children hear about but have no clue what it looks like. They need visual presentation. For example, the other day, I researched on You Tube the cartoon video and song of Peter Cotton Tail. My students were fully engaged and asked to view the video and learn the song several times. It was a lot of fun. Utilizing You Tube instantly was very convenient for me to have ready in an instant for preschoolers to view a particular video pertaining to an instructional activity. Based on our experiences with You Tube, You Tube will be an excellent ideal social media to help influence and promote your policy issue change in our communities.
Smith and Just (2009) point out how videos on You Tube deals with one of the most interactive media and seeks to understand interaction between people mediated by a highly goal-directed activity. The authors quote pertains to our examples of utilizing You Tube for our children and/or practitioners professional development workshops. Thank you, Vianey Garcia.
Reference
Smith, J., & Just, S (2009). Playful persuasion. NORDICOM Review, 30(2), 53-68.
Hello Vianey,
ReplyDeleteThank you very much… Yes, I created a YouTube video for a public service announcement (PSA) concerning bullying and hand washing. It was awesome. Concerning my policy issue, I would like to show what a productive practitioners’ professional development workshop format might entail and the results of those in that workshop. And then to show what a practitioners’ professional development workshop of the current format looks like and its lack of positive results in the practitioners’ classroom.
A work in progress..
Hi Synera,
ReplyDeleteYou welcome. That is great how your work in regards to development workshops are in progress. I look forward to your presentations and I would like to share your video presentations to my colleagues in my community of practice in early childhood education. Thanks Vianey