Slide show

1. Social Media
for Educators
By: Lauren Brodlo

2. Most Useful Tools
 I have to say that I was a bit skeptical
when I started this course and saw some
of the items that I needed to do. I was
not on Twitter and had no desire to tweet.
However, I have found the educational
side of using Twitter to be very beneficial.
 I also like Delicious, however I need to find
a way to be able to access this at school.

3. Successes and Challenges
 I would say that my greatest success was
learning how to use Twitter. I felt
completely lost for the first few weeks, but
slowly started to understand it and how to
use it.
 My greatest challenge was building a
PLN. I am still not feeling great about it,
but I feel like I have started to see the
benefits of one.

4. Moodle and Online learning
 I have always been someone who enjoys
online learning. I think that allows people
the opportunity to really learn things on
their own with the guidance of an
instructor. Had I been in a class each
week, I would have depended more on
the instructor to explain things, instead of
really learning how to do some things on
my own.

5. Twitter
 You can find me on Twitter as lb81379
 Twitter was the learning tool that I did not
think that I would like, but ended up
finding to be very beneficial. I really
enjoyed getting connected with other
teachers and professional organizations. I
have gained access to many professional
articles and have shared some great
experiences with other teachers.

6. Delicious.com
http://www.delicious.com/lbrodlo
Delicious is a wonderful way to put all of the
websites that you use in all subjects onto one
page. I found many sites that I have used over
the past 8 years and now have them in one
spot.
The only downfall that I have found is that I
currently can’t access this at school. Obviously,
this presents a bit of problem since school is
where I most want to use it.

7. Classroom 2.0
http://www.classroom20.com/profile/LaurenBrodlo
Building a Personal Learning Network was probably the
most challenging part of this course for me. I didn’t
really understand it in the beginning. The more I visited
Classroom 2.0, the more I understood the point behind
it.
I built my homepage for Classroom 2.0 and then
decided to begin a blog about bullying- Bullies Beware.
This blog has allowed me to share articles with other
teachers and get ideas from them on what they do in
their classrooms. I can now see the benefits of building
this network.

8. Animoto
http://animoto.com/play/k2F900vyG54Lt8GtgIhpPw
Animoto is another one of my favorite tools to use for
my classroom and for my personal use. It is such an
easy tool to use to make a slideshow/video of your
pictures. My students truly enjoyed seeing
themselves on the slideshow and it didn’t take too
much time to complete!