Building Social Media for Educators

1. Building Social Media for
Educators
Emily Zegestowsky

2. Most Useful Tools
★ Twitter: I learned more of what Twitter has to offer-
Paper li. I like having one space for all Health &
Physical Education articles in one spot.
★ Delicious: I am always bookmarking favorite websites
related to education (or other areas). This is an
awesome alternative to bookmarking! I like having a
visual of websites and similar tags. I will use this often.

3. Most Useful Tools
★ Pinterest: I never thought to use this for education and I
found so many great ideas, lessons, etc to “pin” to my
boards! This will be addicting!
★ Glogster: I had heard of this, but never used it. I love
being able to create posters online. Such a great tool
that will be used very often in the future!

4. Successes in Social Media
★ I was able to learn more in depth about Twitter.
Scrolling through this app gives me a headache and I
rarely use it to read articles anymore. However, learning
of paper.li I am more inclined to use it now that I can
create a space for articles that really interest me. I had
no idea this existed and I’m grateful for learning
something new!

5. Successes in Social Media
★ I know I will use Delicious in my future of
teaching. This was my favorite tool in this
course. I am a visual learner so being able to
see websites and tags on one page will be
very resourceful and help keep me
organized.

6. Challenges in Social Media
★ Finding new tools to use in social media was
challenging for me as I am not currently teaching. I felt
like I would be able to better relate to a lot of the tools
listed if I was incorporating my current lessons.
★ I chose Glogster because I have never created a poster
online before. I chose the area of nutrition, but if I were
teaching I could go more in depth of the lesson and
include topics to discuss or class activities.

7. Moodle & Online Learning
★ I have found Moodle to be a wonderful tool
in online learning. Subjects and assignments
are organized and easy to navigate.
★ I feel like I have learned more with Moodle
than I would in a classroom setting. Since
the course is catered to social media it
makes sense to take the course online.

8. Paper.Li

9. Delicious

10. Pinterest: Board 1

11. Pinterest: Board 2

12. Linkedin

13. Glogster

14. Conclusion
★ I really enjoyed this class since I enjoy using
social media on a daily basis. I find it
extremely convenient to be able to use these
programs on my phone, as well. I will most
definitely be using what I learned in this
course in my future of education!