The document discusses social media tools that are useful for educators. It finds that Google+, Twitter, and Pinterest are the top three most useful tools. Google+ allows for collaboration and integration of other services. Twitter makes it easy to search, post, and follow hashtags on mobile. Pinterest provides educational content and lessons in a visual format. The presenter had successful experiences using these tools and their features. Pinterest was the favorite for its unique and creative educational content.

1. BUILDING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR
EDUCATORS
Final Presentation
Maureen Groves

2. TOP 3 MOST USEFUL
TOOLS FOR ME
Twitter
Google +
Pinterest

3. WHY I FOUND GOOGLE+ USEFUL
⦿Multilingual social networking and identity
service
⦿Collaborates with existing services and
platforms
⦿Useful for businesses or individual personal
use
⦿Integrates Gmail, YouTube, Calendars,
Contacts, and more
⦿Unique sharing system that makes is easy for
users to connect

4. WHY I FOUND TWITTER USEFUL
⦿Simple platform makes it easy to
search and post content using hash
tags
⦿Allows quick sharing of information
⦿Easily accessible from mobile
devices
⦿Follow people and topics that
interest you
⦿Keep up with trends and friends

5. PINTEREST
⦿Filled with educational content
⦿Lessons and resource ideas
⦿Visual platform which makes it easy to
navigate
⦿Provides an opportunity to network with
other educators
⦿Easy to search by subject by using
keywords

6. SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCES
⦿Using Pinterest to gather ideas for lesson
plans
⦿Made a twitter account and learned how to
follow trends
⦿Making connections with other educators and
gaining new insights and perspective on
certain topics
⦿Understanding the advantages of utilizing a
Linkedin account and exploring groups to join
⦿Utilizing Diigo to create social bookmarks

7. CHALLENGES
⦿Making the final presentation, I
struggled to decide which platform
to use and started off using Google
docs but it found it more easy to use
Microsoft PowerPoint
⦿I also struggled with submitting
some of the assignments not sure if
the format was correct

8. FAVORITE TOOL
Pinterest was my favorite because of the
unique and creative content, it was easy to
navigate and found a lot of interesting
helpful pins

9. OTHER USEFUL TOOLS
⦿Delicious- social bookmarking
⦿Glogster- digital bulletin board
⦿Animoto- video and digital
storytelling tool
⦿Wix- Website builder
⦿VoiceThread- collects and shares
group conversations
⦿YouTube- Video sharing site

10. ⦿I learned a lot from this course and it was
an awesome introduction to social media
for me. I will incorporate the skills I
learned in the course in my classroom and
use them to enhance my students
education as well. Overall this class was a
positive experience and I learned a lot of
useful skills.
In Conclusion…