Homepage Slide 2 Pinterest lets you organize and share all the
beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan
their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite
recipes. Slide 3 Our Mission Our goal is to connect everyone in the
world through the 'things' they find interesting. We think that a
favorite book, toy, or recipe can reveal a common link between two
people. With millions of new pins added every week, Pinterest is
connecting people all over the world based on shared tastes and
interests. Slide 4 Best of all, you can browse pinboards created by
other people. Slide 5 Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover
new things and get inspiration from people who share your
interests. To get started, request an invite. request an invite
Slide 6 Slide 7 Slide 8 Pinterest for Educators? (3/19/12 ) Eric
Sheninger is principal of New Milford High School and the subject
of a recent article in USAToday on social media in the classroom.
He is the author of Communicating & Connecting With Social
Media. You can also follow him on Twitter at
NMHS_Prinicipal.article in USAToday on social media in the
classroomCommunicating & Connecting With Social
MediaNMHS_Prinicipal Slide 9 I decided to check it out and see if
it had any value to me as an educator. Up until this point I really
didnt have a clue as to what it was all about except that it was a
social media tool that functioned like an electronic bulletin
board. The tutorial video that you are directed to upon signing up
was short, to the point, and made it incredibly simple to dive in
and start creating. Slide 10 I quickly became fascinated with the
idea of pinning together all of my professional interests. As I
began to piece together resources on Personal Learning
Networks(PLNs), I lost track of time and ended staying up well past
my bedtime... My excitement carried over to the next day as I
created another board (Web 2.0 Tools). This led me to begin to
brainstorm ways in which educators could utilize this resource to
enhance teaching and learning. Here is what I came up
with:resources on Personal Learning Networks(PLNs) another board
(Web 2.0 Tools) Slide 11 Curating Content Pin together images,
links, and video Create resource boards for teachers,
administrators or students Sharing creative works easily Slide 12
Brainstorming Set up Collaborative boards for multiple users Pin
together shared ideas and resources Slide 13 Engaging Students Set
up collaborative boards for specific projects, portfolios Add an
exciting dimension to a digital newspaper. Slide 14 Conference
Summaries/Notes/Resources Share website links and images Slide 15
Teaching Copyright and Digital Citizenship Pinterest provides
educators with the ultimate tool to teach about copyright and
Creative Commons Many images and photos are creative works, which
need to be cited appropriately when pinned Slide 16 Sheningers
Personal Learning Network Pinboard Slide 17 Personal Learning
Networks Cost-effective professional development Based on the
professional interests/goals of individual educators FREE
professional development 24/7 Slide 18
stephenslighthouse.com/2012/02/08/pinterest-and-education/ More
Hints and Tips for using Pinterest in the classroom can be found
at: Slide 19 What is a pin (anatomy of a good pin)? A pin is an
image added to Pinterest. A pin can be added from a website (using
bookmarklet) or by uploading images Each pin added using the
bookmarklet links back to the site it came from. Slide 20 What is a
board? A board is a set of pins on any topic You can add as many
pins to a board as you want Slide 21 How to comment on a pin There
are two ways to comment on a pin: Mouse-over a pin in thumbnail
view, click the Comment button, type in your comment When viewing a
pin in full-size view, you can type a comment in the text box below
the image. Slide 22 Pin Etiquette Be Respectful Be Authentic Credit
Your Sources Report Objectionable Content Tell Us How to Make
Pinterest Better Slide 23 Social media find place in classroom By
Greg Toppo, USA TODAY Updated: 07/25/2011 12:24pm Among educators,
Eric Sheninger is something of a social networking hero. The
principal of New Milford (N.J.) High School has nearly 12,300
Twitter followers (his handle: @NMHS_Principal). He and his
teachers use Facebook to communicate with students and parents, and
students use it to plan events. In class, teachers routinely ask
kids to power up their cellphones to respond to classroom polls and
quizzes. Rather than ban cellphones, Sheninger calls them "mobile
learning devices." He replaced the school's "static, boring"
website with what has become a heavily used Facebook page, and his
teachers encourage students to research, write, edit, perform and
publish their work online. Slide 24 Sheninger is one of a growing
number of educators who don't just tolerate social networking in
school he encourages it, often for educational purposes. He says
sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube long banned and roundly
derided by many peers actually push kids to do better work and pay
attention to important issues such as audience, quality research
and copyright laws. "The Internet as we know it is the 21st
century," he says. "It is what these students have known their
whole lives. They're connected, they're creating, they're
discussing, they're collaborating." He and others say working
online also pushes education beyond the confines of school,
allowing kids to broaden discussion of their work. And it forces
them to do "authentic" work that gets tested out in the real world,
as outside viewers see it and respond to it. Slide 25 Challenging a
new generation "Being literate in 2011 means being digitally
literate," says Chris Lehmann, principal of Science Leadership
Academy, a public high school in Philadelphia that has been using
social media since it opened in 2006. Sheninger and others also say
it is nave to think that kids raised online will respond to school
the same way as previous generations. "Kids are coming to us bored,
disconnected, and it's a challenge for us to figure out how to
leverage the tools inherent in the real-time Web," he says. The
American Library Association encourages schools and libraries to
think twice before keeping kids off social media, saying such
prohibition "does not teach safe behavior and leaves youth without
the necessary knowledge and skills to protect their privacy or
engage in responsible speech." Their policy statement on the topic
says that instead of restricting access, librarians and teachers
"should educate minors to participate responsibly, ethically and
safely." Slide 26 Federal regulations have long kept most popular
social networking sites off-limits, since school districts that
receive federal E-rate funds to wire schools to the Internet must
block material that's obscene or "harmful to minors." But as more
educators discover the virtues of social networking sites, they're
using a variety of approaches to get around the rules: Often they
ask kids to access the sites at home or on mobile devices;
sometimes they tweak in-school Internet filters to allow blocked
sites that they find appropriate (the regulations allow schools to
make this call). Still others simply look the other way when kids
inevitably find a way around the filters. Karen Cator, the U.S.
Department of Education's director of educational technology, says
it's important to find a good middle ground. "The Internet is not
going away," she says. "We need to do everything we can to make it
safe and really a wonderful place for children." Slide 27 Providing
structure, guidance Perhaps the biggest objection to widespread use
of social sites is the likelihood that kids will encounter
irrelevant or even offensive material a fear that many teachers say
is overblown. While the Web can seem like "a sea of pornography and
idiots," says James Lerman, the author of several books on
educational technology, schools must help students figure out how
to navigate it so they "can get to the good stuff" that's
applicable to school. "We as educators need to do a better job of
advertising and sharing the meaningful work done with social
media," says Matt Levinson of Marin Country Day School in Corte
Madera, Calif. He writes about the struggles schools face using
social media in his 2010 book, From Fear to Facebook. "If you keep
it out, kids are creating their own cultures in this space with no
guidance from adults and that's not responsible." Slide 28 The
other big misconception: that schools with open Web access are
simply letting kids "play freely as if there's no structure," says
Lisa Highfill, a 5th-grade teacher in Pleasanton, Calif. A longtime
devotee of YouTube she used it recently to show her Oakland- area
students videos of tornadoes and mudslides Highfill says she
chooses videos in advance. "I don't just search in front of the
kids," says Highfill, who also uses a YouTube add-on that strips
"related videos" off the right- hand side of the page. She admits
that even with careful planning, learning online carries risks. But
the risks shouldn't be overstated. "When we go on a field trip,
when we go anywhere," she says, "we warn (students) of the dangers
of where we're going."
