“Texting Paid Off!” is the subject of the email I just received from George Middle School (GMS) Principal Beth Madison. Beth and her staff hired me late last year to help them design and implement a social networking /social media strategy in her 93% free and reduced, Title I school in Portland, Oregon . One [...]
In higher education cell phone technology for learning and connecting with students makes undisputed sense. In fact, in 2008 Boston College decided not to give incoming students email accounts, but instead issued them forwarding addresses that students can point to any established digital identity they already have. It will be interesting to see how many [...]
One of the biggest challenges that middle schools face is poor attendance. Federal, State and County laws require children to attend school, No Child Left Behind dings schools with high truancy rates and research shows that children who do not attend regularly in middle school are at risk of dropping out of high school. Getting chronically [...]
The project started simply enough. A very creative educator and counselor at George Middle School, Liz Delmatoff, found a clip of an NBC News segment I did on social media. She tracked me down and several phone calls worth of brainstorming later, I was booked to spend three days at GMS to help her team [...]