Social media presentation

Building Social

Media for Educators

ByKristin Vaszily

Most Useful Tool…

Pinterest

Reasons why this was the most useful:

Found so many resources I can use as a school counselor

Ability to easily organize those resources onto boards: books, bulletin boards, lessons, activities, teacher appreciation ideas

Opportunity to see what other school counselors are using in their schools

Access this sight anywhere through a computer, cell phone, or ipad

Other Useful Tools…

Twitter• Ability to connect with other

educators, organizations and school counselors

• Opportunity to grow professionally as a school counselor

• Sharing of resources, activities, and articles for school counseling

• Accessing twitter from any computer, cell phone or ipad

Delicious• Keeping all website links to

videos, articles, resources in one spot

• Ability to organize those resources in different tags

• Opportunity to share and receive information from other people

• Accessing delicious from any computer, my cell phone or ipad

Successes…

• I became more comfortable using social media and found out how useful it can be to me professionally.

• By using social media, I have a ton of resources to use this school year.

• I was always curious as to what twitter was about and now I have a twitter account. Also, I learned how to use TinyURL.

More Successes…

• I have boards set up and organized on pinterest.

• I know how to make short videos with music on animoto. I am excited about using this tool for school.

• I have all my favorite articles, website resources, and videos saved in one spot by using delicious.

Challenges…

• I think the overall challenge for me was understanding what a PLN was and then grasping the concept of it. I had no idea of the many ways that people are connected through technology.

• I think starting twitter was challenging. It is very useful but it took me time to feel comfortable using it. However, the video for this class did help explain it.

Feelings About MOODLE and On-line Learning

• It is well organized and so easy to go through the section/topics.

• Feedback for your assignments is given right away.

• The flexibility of choosing when to do the sections/topic is very convenient. It works with my schedule. I like that you have access to work on the course anytime of the day.

• The material that I have covered in on-line learning has been relevant to my field and is helping me grow as a school counselor. I have gotten so many new ideas through them.

• This has been my third on-line learning class and all three were positive experiences.

Collection of My Work

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/krisvaszily

• Delicious: https://delicious.com/krisvaszily

• Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/krisvaszily/boards/

• Animoto: http://animoto.com/projects