Twittering in schools

Polytechnic High Principal Gerardo Loera is a big fan of social media, posting everything from football scores to schoolwide test results on Facebook and Twitter for students, parents and the world to see. Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

He even includes a live feed of his tweets, usually typed from his cellphone, on the school's website.

"It's just such a useful and immediate way to disseminate information to my school community in a very quick way," Loera said.