Over the weekend, I presented a session on creating a social media strategy for high school newsrooms at the Spring Interscholastic Press League Conference in Austin. I like to believe that most journalism teachers agree that getting rid of the blocks on social networking sites on at least one computer in the journalism classroom is a good idea. After all, the social media editor is now a legit position in many newsrooms.

But once you get a Twitter and Facebook account, and maybe even a Foursquare, what exactly do you post? I struggled with this at first as a reporter new to using social media for journalism. Do I include personal info? How much do I share about a story before it’s published? How to be conversational without appearing biased? These are all great discussions to have. The cool thing about high school students is that most use social networking already and just need a little direction to shift to a journalistic purpose on these sites.

Here’s the slideshow I used for my presentation. Feel free to use if you think it’d be helpful.