RSS 2.0 FeedThursday, February 2, 2012, Wantagh Seaford Citizen
SHS students teach residents about social media projects
SHS Future Corps students teach about social networking.
MEDIA MAVENS: Seaford High School students, clockwise from top left, Samridhi Grover, Christian Coughlin, Colleen Brostowin, Andrew Diana and Melissa Cholewa will lead a series of social media trainings for the community during the month of February.
If you’re curious about social media and want to improve your skills, then Seaford High School library is where you want to be on Wednesday nights during the month of February. There, students involved in a Newsday Future Corps community-service project will guide you through hands-on training in Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Skype and Twitter.
“I hope to show participants how to fix their privacy settings and to be more mindful about who is seeing their information,” said senior Colleen Brostowin. She developed three brochures, beginner, intermediate and advanced, to help participants navigate through Facebook and Twitter. Also presenting Facebook will be senior Kathleen DaSilva.
Working on a YouTube presentation, freshmen Melissa Cholewa and Samridhi Grover, and junior Christian Coughlin said they will show participants how to update, upload, subscribe, comment “like” and “dislike” and even how to remix videos as time permits.
Freshman Andrew Diana will provide a better understanding of Skyping. “I’ll show them how to connect, how to make a video and answer any questions they have as we go along,” he said.
The students have spent more than 25 community-service hours researching social media and developing their presentations. And, while the goal is to teach others, they admit there is a lot they learned by taking part in the project.
“This experience has definitely been rewarding so far,” said Colleen, “not only because of the service hours I am earning, but because the research has helped me adjust and improve my own social media settings.”
“We also learned how to manage our time better and to meet deadlines,” Andrew added. Trainings will be conducted from 7-9 p.m. in the Seaford High School Library on February 8, 15 and 29. Seating is limited.
Register early by calling Joanna McCloskey, library media specialist, at 592-4311. During the registration process, residents will be notified as to what form of social media will be presented during which dates. Presentations may vary depending on interest.
Ms. McCloskey has helped students become involved in several Newsday Future Corps projects. Newsday provides a $150 grant to schools that participate. Ms. McCloskey uses the grant to purchase equipment to make the library a more user-friendly place to visit.
