Welcome to the Lab

Welcome to the edSocialMedia Lab!
All of the content that you see on this site is created by people just like you–educators who see social media as a new and exciting field. The blog posts, videos, tweets, and pictures are taken during our ESM Bootcamps and archived here as a public resource.

We hope you will join us for one of our ESM Bootcamps or if your school is interested in hosting a bootcamp please contact us!

What is an ESM Bootcamp?
The edSocialMedia Bootcamp offers a one-day, practical application of social media tools in a school environment.
This full day workshop provides an in-depth introduction to social media technology for school leaders and administrators, complete with an opportunity to create content and get your hands dirty.
What does the day look like?

Bootcamp Format
This full day workshop provides an in-depth, hands-on introduction to social media technology. Participants working with the tools to create content in order to learn how to apply social media into their own outreach.

Working with your team:
- generate a minimum of 8 tweets spread out over two hours posted to #edsocialmedia

- write two, well crafted articles for the blog (between 450 – 750 words)

- create a photoset in Flickr of 10 photos

- post a brief (around 2 minutes) video for YouTube

Check out over the content that over 120 schools and over 250 people have already created through a day with edSocialMedia. You can find it all in the “What’s Cooking” section.