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Kellie Demmler

How Educators Use Pinterest for Curation | MindShift - 0 views

  • drawn red-hot excitement for its unique visual, topic-based curation approach
  • create a densely packed visual scrapbook of public and street art to identify themes that would have easily been missed had they gathered individual photos in a folder
  • to show good design work to her media design classes
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  • share visual material for collaborations and peer critique
  • one of the main applications for Pinterest
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  • students use Pinterest as part of a “social photography” assignment
  • assigned students in a “writing for the web” class to produce stories for their Doing It Downtown blog to use Pinterest as a curation tool for visuals, while using Storify for social media and Spotify or LastFM for music.
  • “I teach Pinterest as a visual ‘SPACE,’”
  • S is for sourcing story ideas and trending topics; P is for promotion and publishing students’ work. A is for aggregation of pictures (with suitable copyright); C is for curating top news, and E is for engaging with others.”
  • Pinterest is not without its drawbacks. Not all students, especially males, find it equally intriguing
  • But the big issue some are warning about with Pinterest has to do with its copyright policy regarding the images users pin.
  • Lawyer and amateur photographer Kirsten Kowalski likened it to Napster due to the liability its terms of service and copyright policies create for users of the site
  • Pinterest issued a statement on March 15 suggesting that, like YouTube and other social media sharing sites, it is “protected under the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (PDF),” and also tries to respond promptly to any copyright violation concerns.
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    Looking to add visual interest to your lesson? Pinterest may be your solution! The article suggests ways in which this visual social media site can be used in the classroom and promotes SPACE - an acronym that helps students to remember the "best" uses for the site. This is interesting in terms of reaching students with varied learning styles and intelligences, developing creativity and higher order thinking, and more. However, like most tools the site does have its downfalls. It tends to be more engaging for females than males, which brings about an interesting gender debate. Its use also falls into fuzzy copyright issues - none of which are different from other social media sites. Check out the article & let me know what you think!
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    Until Pinterest addresses the nudity and pornography that can pop up on the "everything" catergory, I can't recommend this site for class projects. I've banned my own children from it (both of my daughters have a board on my own account) and wish desperately that I could unsee some of the images I've seen. It seems like copyright might be the least of their worries if lewd content continues to surface. It's really too bad - I have to agree that it could be great for group or individual projects.
Kellie Demmler

Telstra's Social Media Training Guide - Social Media In Learning - 0 views

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    This deals with how companies are dealing with employees commenting on social networking sites. 
Kellie Demmler

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker - 0 views

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    Does social media = social activism?
Kellie Demmler

Feds settle case of woman fired over Facebook site | Litigation | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

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    This is an interesting court decision regarding the use of social media.  I find the decision that socia media is now considered a part of normal conversation an important line drawn in the sand.  I wonder if this decision was made before the "drunken pirate" issue with the young student teacher being denied her licence if there would have been a change in her ruling. 
Courtney McGrew

Education World: Study Suggests Benefits of Social Media in Class - 0 views

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    An educational theory gaining momentum in the literature may open the door to increased use of social media in schools. Dr. Richard Light believes that social networking may be good in schools for reasons like group studies.
Alisha Caton

Using Mobile and Social Technologies in Schools - 1 views

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    This article talks about how the rapid growth of social medias is a problem but yet they are trying to take this fact and turn it into a great thing to be used within the school system.
Charleigh Clark

5 Unique Uses of Twitter in the Classroom - US News and World Report - 0 views

  • nearly 80 percent of faculty members are using social media in some way, according to a recent survey of nearly 2,000 college faculty by the Babson Survey Research Group published in April.
  • The growth of knowledge is a very social process," says Patrick J. Murphy
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