An educator's experience incorporating various social media mediums into the classroom

1. Building Social
Media For Educators
Meredith Cohen
FInal Presentation

2. So many Ways to
connect

3. It all began with a tweet...
Twitter: I know what it is and I’ve seen how it
works, but I’d never used it before. Why? It
makes me nervous! #teacherprobs!
@mer9566

4. Twitter
Finding quality people to
follow
People are
actually
following
ME?!
I’ve been
REtweeted!

5. Challenges
1. Getting over my fear of a “teacher on
Twitter.”
2. Finding worthwhile/quality people or
communities to follow on social media sites.
3. Remembering the numerous account
names, log-ins, and passwords!
4. Going back to check on previous posts or
comments to respond to others who
continued the conversation.

6. Most useful tool...
How Pinterest changed the way I teach:
1. So many young, enthusiastic, and creative teachers post their work and love
sharing via Pinterest.
2. I can see friends and follow people or boards specific to my interests.
3. I can access my Pinterest account while I’m at school, so I can find great
resources I’ve already pinned and prepare them at school.
4. It’s a great way to organize links I’ve found with a visual representation of
exactly what the link/resource I pinned is.,
5. I discovered interactive notebooking, which I’ve used to completely revamp
my curriculum, through Pinterest last year.
6. I can make as many boards as I want that can be as specific or general as the
things I pin.
7. Since it’s also a social site, I can comment and read others’ comments about
pins.
8. It’s constantly evolving and items are updated or repinned.
9. It’s FREE!

7. Pinterest

8. Google+
Sharing
comments...
Uploading
Active
feeds/posts

9. DeliciousTagging = Organizing links
Collectin
g
educatio
nal links
all in one
place
Networki
ng with
like-

10. Glogster:
A success
-Created by educators and students
-Templates are easy to use and fun
-Encourages creativity and
personalization
-Library full of re-usable resources and
content
-A place to put ALL modes of
media/content in ONE PLACE
-Users can combine text, images,
videos and audio with the drag-and--
drop Glogster tool, then instantly share
with others
-Helps students develop presentation
Here’s a
glog I
created
for my
beginner
students
in
preparati
on for
the math
PSSA to
review
vocabula
ry!

11. Moodle and Online learning
Just as I learned how to use a variety of social media
and web 2.0 tools to help me run my classroom and stay
organized through technology, I think Moodle does the
same for educators whose classes are run entirely
online. Since this is my third course using Moodle, I was
comfortable navigating the site, and I liked how I could
keep track of everything occurring in the course--from
when I submitted assignments, to my grades and
assignment feedback. I’m glad that I’ve had the
opportunity to use an online learning platform since I

12. It’s all about
becoming a global
community