The author reflects on using Pinterest for both personal and professional reasons before the class, primarily pinning elementary school resources. After the class, the author realized Pinterest also has valuable secondary resources, such as for anti-bullying. The author created a new Pinterest board for the class with 8 boards and 100 pins so far. The author is following 5 people, including experts on topics like cyberbullying, and one person is following the author. The author summarizes participation and compares Pinterest to Twitter for keeping updated and finding classroom resources and activities.

1. My 2 PLN Multimedia
Reflection
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http://www.pinterest.com/

2. ∗ Before this class I used Pinterest for both personal &
professional reasons. Professional, I used to pin
resources for my husband who is a grade 2 teacher.
There are amazing resources for the elementary
school grades.
∗ After this class I realized that there are great
resources for secondary. For example, I found lots of
pins for anti-bullying.

3. Growth on Pinterest
∗ I set-up a new Pinterest for this class. Now I have 8 boards
and 100 pins!! I will continue to use this PLN to connect with
others and gather professional resources.
∗ I am now following 5 people on Pinterest and 1 person is
following me.

4. Who I am Following
1) Sarah Mauston
Interested in her boards: “Teaching”, “Cyber-bullying” and
“Wise Words.”
She has excellent resources that I could repin and use in my
classroom.
2) Indiana eLearning
Set-up by the Indiana Department of Education.
Its aim is “to improve student outcomes through the
international use of technology.”
It has great boards like “Mobile Learning”, “Copyright
Questions”, “Digital Content: Science, etc…” A lot of
information we discussed in class.

5. Who I am Following
3) The U.S Health & Human Services
Two boards that I am interested in are “Happy +
Healthy Kids” and “StopBullying.Gov.”
These boards have pins that are great resources for
secondary.

6. Participation
∗ I have 8 boards and 100 pins. Three of the boards are
geared towards elementary school grades and three
are for secondary. The boards are on cyberbullying.
∗ I pinned items and followed 5 people.

7. Twitter vs Pinterest
Twitter
Pinterest
Organized by hashtags.
Organized by boards.
Used links to get to resources.
Could visually see the resources.
They had images.
Good for keeping up-to-date and for Good for classroom resources.
professional development.
Found that articles were tweeted a
lot. Not a lot of activities were
tweeted.
Found that there were more ideas
and activities pinned than articles.
Easy to join and follow people.
Also easy to join and follow people
Easier to find experts. More experts and/or boards. Harder to find
appear to be on Twitter than
experts.
Pinterest.