1. Social Media
for Educators
Final Presentation
March 2017
Lisa Schaffer

2. Most Useful
Tools
❖ Linkedin
❖ Professional networking site
❖ Allows you to interact and connect with others
working professionals. Can be a great resource when
job hunting.
❖ Twitter
❖ Quick, upto date information at your fingertips!
❖ Allows you to connect with and learn from people all
over the world.
❖ Pinterest
❖ A virtual vision board!
❖ Allows you to save & share websites, pictures and
new ideas broken down by categories.
❖ Diigo
❖ An online filing system!
❖ Allows you to save and file different websites, and
then search them by the categories you set forth for
them.
❖ Wiix
❖ Free tool to create websites
❖ Allows you to customize and create your own website
as well as a unique URL
Social Media for Education

3. Social Media for Education
Successes
❖ Launching my Wix website!
❖ Once set my site up, the reaction
from students was great. They
really liked the activity, were
engaged and I was comfortable
knowing exactly where each link
took them.
❖ Using Twitter
❖ I never understood the concept of
twitter and quite frankly thought it
was silly. Once I joined and began
actually using the site, I loved it! It
was great learning from others and
having so much up to date
information and at my fingertips
❖ Pinterest
❖ I may be addicted to Pinterest! I
really enjoyed using it to gain ideas
and try new things, especially for
teaching.

4. Social Media for Education
Challenges
❖ Setting up my Wix website!
❖ It was very time consuming
navigating on how to set up the
site initially but once I got the
hang of it it was fairly easy.
❖ Using Diigo
❖ I found that adding tags onto
my saved sites did not appear
as I wanted them to and thus
made it harder to keep it
organized. I also really enjoyed
the visual board of Pinterest
and realized that the majority of
the sites I was saving on Diigo
could be just as easily saved to
Pinterest.

5. Linkedin
Lets Connect:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisamschaffer/

6. Twitter
Lets Connect: https://twitter.com/LSchaff1

7. Pinterest
Lets Connect: https://www.pinterest.com/Lms084/

8. Diigo
Lets Connect: https://www.diigo.com/user/lmschaffer

9. Online Learning
❖ I have taken several online courses and really enjoy
them. Initially I did not think that I would enjoy them
because I enjoy collaborating with others. However, I
have found that I am still able to interact and learn from
others through courses like this one.
❖ This particular course was wonderful. It pushed me
outside of my comfort zone by joining Twitter, creating a
website and learning about new online tools for both my
personal and professional uses.