We Want To See Who You Are!

My school district is embracing the Google+ world, in particular the communities. My principal has created a community for the teachers & staff in our building and shares announcements, weekly calendars, common core information, staff birthdays, etc. I will say it has cleaned up my email inbox immensely, and I love that the information is always available and organized (there's my Type A coming out again, dang!)

One positive is being able to put a face with a name. Most would not deem our staff extremely large, but our building is, and I can go for weeks, sometimes months, and not see my co-workers, or necessarily know who all the new staff are. So we strongly encourage having actual pictures in our profile, and not clip art or avatars. Because of this I've been paying closer attention on Google+ and Twitter to those that I connect with and what their profile picture says about them. Could I pick them out of a group if I saw them? Does it portray who they are? Or what they teach?

It's easy to do, just click on your profile picture in Google+ (or the blue man if he's still hanging around) and choose Change Profile Photo. Whether you use a school photo, selfie, or random shot of yourself doesn't matter. Just make sure your profile picture is clear and allows others to recognize who your are, because I know you're not a Fighting Irish (aka Segar)!