This document provides best practices for using Learnist, a social learning website and app. It outlines the basics of Learnist, including that boards explain topics through multimedia learnings like websites, videos, and PDFs. Benefits of Learnist include access from anywhere, collaborative curation of knowledge, and interactive multimedia links. Examples then demonstrate how to create lesson plans, address Common Core standards, and develop collaborative boards on topics like the Higgs boson. Stylistic advice recaps best practices for board creation and organization. Feedback questions gauge current and planned educator usage.

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Best Practices for Teachers

2. The Basics
• Learnist is a social learning website and app
• Boards explain/explore any topic, and are sorted by category
(e.g. Politics)
• Boards are collections of multimedia learnings, which can be:
– Websites
– Videos
– Podcasts
– PDFs
– Slideshows
– Photo galleries
– eBooks
– Etc
• Learnings are organized in numerical steps
• Anyone can create, collaborate on, search, like, and comment
on boards
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3. Benefits & Uses
Advantages:
• Access anywhere (home, school,
etc)
• Make board once, reference
repeatedly
• Share knowledge publicly
• Curate collaboratively
• Search related subjects easily
• Interactive multimedia links beat
reading a textbook
Scenarios:
• Outline individual lessons
• Summarize entire courses
• Teach Common Core
Standards
• Explore general topics
• List student research sources
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4. Example Lesson Plan:
• Instructs students clearly in each learning description
• Comments responded to rapidly by board creator
• Provides optional learning assignment
• Links to full required reading text online
• Includes intriguing learning images and tags
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Puritan Language
http://learni.st/users/78891/boards/16225-puritan-literature

5. Example Common Core Standard:
• Explains standardized education requirement
• Describes board and learnings clearly
• Uses bullet points and bold text to accentuate points
• Mixes videos, websites, and practice problems
• Includes intriguing learning images and tags
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Applying the Pythagorean Theorem
(Common Core Standard 8.G.7)
http://learni.st/users/171/boards/1750-applying-the-pythagorean
theorem-common-core-standard-8-g-7

6. Example Teacher Resource:
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Bullying Prevention
• Appeals to diverse groups
• Provides many relatable, contemporary examples of
topic
• Offers community support and solutions to a common
problem
• Mixes videos, statistics, and websites
• Includes intriguing learning images and tags
http://learni.st/users/leena.ray/boards/586-bullying-prevention

7. Example Collaborative Board:
• Created by two people
• Suggested learnings from multiple users
• Explains high-level science concept simply
• Includes videos, infographic, and engaging multimedia
• Covers a hot topic in the news
• Includes intriguing learning images and tags
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The Higgs Boson
http://learni.st/users/atleastimnotdumb/boards/2261-the-higgs-
boson

8. Stylistic Advice Recap
 Pick as specific a board topic as possible
 Simplify concepts and avoid redundancy
 Describe purpose and audience of board
 Pair each learning with an intriguing image
 Include at least four learnings on your board
 Highlight key points in bold and titles in italics
 Include videos and interactive multimedia content
 Keep capitalization parallel for board and learning titles
 Rearrange learnings to sequence by level of importance
 Tag your board with relevant themes to increase
visibility/searchability
 Write link summary and student instructions in each learning
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9. Feedback Questions
1. How are you currently using Learnist, as an educator?
2. Is there anything about the site that still confuses you?
3. How would you explain to other teachers the uses of
Learnist?
4. How has this presentation and discussion changed the
way you plan to use Learnist?
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10. Contact us at community@learnist.com
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