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MyNotes: PinIt - Transforming Social Media Networks into ProfLearning Tools #iplza15 #teachertips @jspille

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This session, Pin It: Transforming Social Media Networks into Professional Learning Tools, with Jesse Thompson and Lee Valenti (@hi5teaching) at iPadpalooza. Special thanks to Jennifer Spille (@jspille) for dragging me along to this session…with my broken GPS, I never would have found it! :-)

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MyNotes

Right to Left: Jesse Thompson, Lee Valenti, ASL interpreter

  1. Our Problem: How to improve collaboration between team members? Could social media help our team share and collect ideas more effectively?

  2. Solution included Twitter, Pinterest and Evernote…these represent the 3 pillars of the solution they decided on.

  3. Share: Twitter for sharing: teachers could read an article, they would be tweeted at with a link

  4. Collect: Pinterest to collect the resources

  5. Store: Evernote to create. Record those things that were tried and true, that worked and save them for next year.

  6. If we couldn’t meet F2F, we could meet virtually.

  7. Twitter = Share

  8. @ mentions

  9. #hashtag

  10. DM Direct messages - allows you to put in videos, etc.

  11. List creation

  12. Never Miss a Tweet Again! Make a list for your department, grade or school.

  13. Created public twitter account for school work:

  14. Didn’t want to deal with privacy issues

  15. Wanted to focus on being able to post photos with school…keep personal photos separate.

  16. You can use the volume up/down on your iPhone headphones/mic cord to take pictures to facilitate selfies pics.

  17. Follow hashtag #teachertips

  18. Pinterest = Collect…what’s important about this is how you organize.

  19. You can get lost in Pinterest. We do Spring Cleaning after each year…it wasn’t enough to start pinning stuff. We had to organize them so they could make our meetings flow. 

  20. We organized them into specific flows. View Lee Valenti’s board

  21. English - Writing/Grammar

  22. English-Vocabulary

  23. English-Literature

  24. English - Teaching Ideas

  25. The consistency of the boards was important for us.

  26. We’ve rolled this out to our Social Studies. We decided to focus on Pinterest and Evernote. If we find any history-based things, we’re going to put them in a board. They organized it for their team. If they are looking for a board.

  27. Try to keep this simple and not overwhelming. Spring cleaning is needed because there’s so much content.

  28. Evernote = Create

  29. Think of it as a digital binder.

  30. Plan to Implement

  31. Keep it simple. Begin with one social media service. Find what best fits your need.

  32. Account creation & naming convention. Unified organization across all social media.

  33. Encourage usage. Give it time. Make it a habit.

  34. Social Media Alternatives

  35. Educlipper

  36. Tumblr

  37. UStream

  38. TodaysMeet

  39. Instagram

  40. Padlet

  41. Edmodo

  42. GoogleDrive

  43. Slack

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