The document discusses an educator's experience using various social media tools for educational purposes. It finds that Pinterest and Delicious were most useful for locating instructional resources like videos, worksheets and historical information. Initially, learning to use new tools like Twitter and Pinterest was challenging, but tutorials helped the educator learn functions. Overall, the educator felt successful in creating accounts and curating valuable teaching resources, and found online learning a convenient way to continue their education.

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Social Media for Educators
Kristen Manderachi
2/21/15

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Most Useful Tool
• Even though I was skeptical about it at first, I
found that Pinterest was the most useful tool!
• I found valuable instructional resources, such
as videos, graphic organizers, images,
worksheets, and historical background
information.
• I can use Pinterest to locate relevant and
useful information and resources to improve
my instruction for all of my English courses.

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Additional Useful Tool
• Delicious was also a very practical tool!
• Organizing your resources by using tags is very helpful.
• The resources can be accessed through any computer.
• The resources were easy to find and tag!

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Successes
• I had never used most of these types of social media before, but I
feel that I successfully created accounts and located valuable
resources that I can use in my classroom.
• I learned how to use various types of social media to quickly and
easily locate resources that can positively impact my teaching
techniques.
• I found educational communities where I can collaborate with other
educators and share educational ideas.

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Challenges
• Since I had not used many of these types of social media before, initially it
took me some time to figure out how to use these types of social media.
• I used the tutorials and instructional videos to help me create my accounts
and utilize these types of social media.
• At first I was confused about how to tweet and retweet, but eventually I
learned how to perform these actions.

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Moodle and Online Learning
• The online learning setting has really allowed me to expand my
educational knowledge by taking graduate courses!
• As a full-time teacher and coach, it would be difficult and exhausting
to drive to a graduate school classroom and spend hours there each
week!
• With the online learning environment, I can participate in the course
and complete my work when it is convenient for me, no matter what
time of day it is or where I am located.
• Moodle is very user-friendly and easy to navigate!

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Collection of My Works
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/KManderachi
• Delicious: https://delicious.com/kmaze11
• Google Plus:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/112626720088522206815/posts
• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kmanderachi/
• Animoto: https://animoto.com/play/o1UVAMjYyva0fbzypBJgBg

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Closing Thoughts
Thank you for a practical course that has made me
aware of many valuable sites that can help me find
educational resources that will improve my classroom
instruction!