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Welcome to Mary Perdue's MEDT 8461 Elevator Speech Project. Please see the fines below to hear and read my project.

For this project, I chose topic #1: What is social media and its role in enhancing teaching and learning?, and topic #3: Best practices of using social media to support student learning. Please review the documents and recordings below to review my project.


 * Elevator Speech # 1 Script and Podcast**

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 * Elevator Speech #2 Script and Podcast**

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 * Reflections, Including References**




 * About the Author**

Mary Perdue is the media specialist at Jasper Middle School in Pickens County, GA. She holds a B.S. in Journalism from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After working in advertising and public relations for about 13 years, she went back to school at Georgia State University and earned her Master's of School Library Media in 1999. Since then, she has been a media specialist (mostly in middle school) in 4 different schools in the Fulton County and Pickens County school systems. She is currently working on her Ed.S. in School Library Media and Instructional technology at the University of West GA.

In addition to her professional and academic pursuits, Mary is getting somewhat frazzled attempting to keep up with the busy schedule of being a baseball and band mom, and overseeing care of her father in assisted living.