Day+5+Support+-+Pinterest+(ACTIVE+DAY)

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Pinterest as a social media electronic organizer
Location: Computer Lab Welcome back!

**Description:** Pinterest has become a popular content "curator" tool for teachers. The app pins together images, links, and videos into visually appealing organizers that make information sharing accessible and effective for students, teachers, and parents. Teachers can also create resource centers for themselves. Pinterest has been described as a “brainstorming” tool into which students can contribute collaboratively in the pinning together of ideas and resources for themselves, or to create one virtual group project or organizer. Students can use the Pinterest boards to apply only to certain classroom projects or assignments, or as compiled resources and work-study organizers. Digital content can be shared in images for presentations or links to papers, resources, and research in The Cloud. There will also be practice to locate Pinterest apps on various mobile technology devices, if BYOD is available, e.g. participants' iPads, tablets, mobile Smart phones. Any use or access by anyone under the age of 13 is prohibited per Pinterest Terms of Service (Pinterest.com, 2014).

Objectives:
Learners will pin together quality Pinterest boards for visually engaging student lesson materials to create a student resource for classroom reports, reading list, events, or lesson assignments. Learners will develop a working knowledge of Pinterest design as a student artifact portfolio tool used in communication and feedback with parents. Learners will implement and learn how to compose Pinterest board content which is appropriate for PLN content and networking with other educators. (ISTE-T, 2008).

Morning Session

 * Facilitator led opening overview of Pinterest.
 * Program presentations on exemplary uses in education for Pinterest as a scrapbook organizer; as an opportunity to teach students that creative works need to abide by appropriate copyright and fair use guidelines; and, for collaborative boards for student group projects.



**Active Day In-Class Assignments (for EDTC 640 assigned peer review members).**
 * 1) Click here for this workshop activity, in a collaborative Google Doc, which will get you started in your planning for your next social network-mediated classroom lesson using Pinterest.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Create, independently, one Pinterest boards that will be related to lessons or student assignments in your own classroom, according to your own subject or discipline, which you might share with your middle school students as an assignment for them to complete, or a reference for them to model their own project organizer. Or, design a Pinterest board with 3-5 pins that would be a Professional Development resource appropriate for your Professional Learning Network and to shared with other professional educator Pinterest accounts. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Please post your online Pinterest page web link to this Wiki page, so that we are able to locate your page or board and contribute. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Then, c <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ollaborate for peer feedback on your Pinterest boards with wiki group members. Share your ideas and comment on each other’s Pinterest boards. Keep in mind online privacy, and copyright and fair use guidelines. Please feel free to begin with my Pinterest Board that I prepared for this online practice. I am using this Pinterest account for training purposes and will deactivate it at a future date in order to re-establish a more professional educator presence. Here is my example Pinterest board link: Ginny Jones Classroom Helpers

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">3. Do you have questions about Pinterest and the lesson planning potential of this social media tool? Post a link or embed a 60 - second Voki recording (your Voki) to raise those questions, or to indicate problems that you may be encountering with Pinterest as it relates to this lesson activity. If you are a Wiki Member, I would like to post those Voki recordings into this Wiki page.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Voki questions go here at the bottom of the page.