The document summarizes various social media and collaboration tools that the author found useful, including Twitter, Pinterest, Delicious, Glogster, Evernote, and educational networks. The author discusses how they used each tool, including following other educators on Twitter, pinning ideas to Pinterest boards, archiving articles with Delicious, creating student projects with Glogster, taking notes with Evernote, and connecting with others through online networks. The author reflects on successes like finding new ideas and feeling more connected to teaching trends, as well as challenges with asking for help online and fully engaging with others' comments.

1. By Stacy Musi

2. The tools that I have found
most useful include:
 Twitter
 Pinterest
 Delicious
 Glogster
 Evernote
 Power Point
 Various networks

3. Twitter
Twitter is an amazing resource that I have
only just begun to tap. I have already
learned so much from the insightful articles
and am excited about the many ideas they
have given me to use in the classroom. Some
useful and interesting groups to follow that I
have found include:
- EdTech Times
- Mindshift
- Edutopia
- Edudemic
To check out some of these followings and
read interesting articles, follow me on
Twitter at: https://twitter.com/StacyMusi

4. Pinterest
Although I am not new to
Pinterest, i’ve opened an account
solely for educational purposes
and am thrilled with the number
of ideas that are available. I
find the beautiful pictures to be
inspirational!
Click the following link to check
out my Pinterest boards:

5. Delicious
according to their website, “Delicious is a free
service designed to be the best place to save
what you love on the web, whether it’s a
video, picture, product, blog post, article or
music. We then help you remember and find it
later. it’s a great place to develop a rich
network of people who share your interests.”
i’ve found this to be absolutely true. Delicious
has led me to information rich articles about
k-8 technology in the classroom. Some of these
articles include:
Top 5 iPad apps for Teaching Across All
Content Areas
20 Habits of Highly Effective Educators
6 Twitter Tips that will Jumpstart your
Professional Development

6. Glogster EDU
Glogster EDU is labeled as, “the leading
global education platform for the creative
expression of knowledge and skills in the
classroom and beyond.”
I used Glogster EDU to help develop pins for my
introduction board on Pinterest.
Teaching
Technology
Yoga
This extremely easy to use platform has
helped me to develop fun, colorful and
creative pins. In the future I plan to use
Glogster EDU in the classroom to create
glogs for my first and second grade students.

7. Evernote and

PowerPoint for
Evernote is software designed
notetaking and archiving. It has been an
excellent tool to keep track of the
accounts, websites and networks that I
have been working with in the past month.
I used Evernote to create my “rough
draft” for my final presentation. in the
future, it will be my primary software
for notetaking.
Social Media Final Presentation draft on
Evernote
 PowerPoint was used to create my final

8. Networks
Educational networks encourage and
facilitate our natural desire to
share what we know and learn from
each other. During this course, I have
been introduced to and discovered
many wonderful educational
networks that have helped
reestablish my love for learning! A
couple of these include:
- http:/www.classroom20.com
- www.community.educationworld.com

9. Successes and Challenges
Successes Challenges
- I found many interesting - I found that, although I
and useful articles and prefer online learning to
ideas on conventional classroom
Twitter, Pinterest and learning, it is more
Delicious, as well as on
the many networks i’ve difficult for me to ask for
joined. help online than it is in the
- Although I am just classroom.
beginning to delve into - Although I have found the
social media, I already information from the
feel like I am more various articles, blogs,
connected to current networks, etc. to be
teaching trends. invaluable, I am still not
- i’ve discovered that fully comfortable putting
Glogster Edu is an
excellent, easy to use my comments out there for
tool for developing others to view. I will
glogs for my students continue to work on this in

10. My take on Moodle and
online learning…
This course seemed very intimidating to me
at first. It has been many years since I
have taken ANY courses, and my FIRST
experience with online learning. However,
over the past 4 weeks I have discovered
numerous things that I will now apply to
my classroom and PLN. I believe online
learning is a key component to future
education and although I am not yet fully
comfortable with it myself, I plan to
continue my own education in this area, in
order to grow with the changing times and
deliver interesting and current lessons
to my students.
Moodle was easy to follow and use. The