Monday, March 25, 2019
QR Code
This week's Ed Tech focus is to learn about QR codes. The assignment is to create and embed a QR code for my blog here in this post. On my blog. Yes, it's redundant but it's practice! So, here's my blog QR code that I generated from the site goqr.me.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Monday, March 4, 2019
Pinterest for the Classroom
This week's Ed Tech assignment was to collect helpful teaching tips in Pinterest and embed these boards here in the blog. I've been using Pinterest for several years and have even been collecting education-related content on Pinterest. However, it helped to divide my generic "Teaching" board into three specific boards: "My Content Area: ELA," "My Classroom: Classroom Management," and "Student Activities." The biggest challenge was figuring out how to embed these boards in this blog.
Pinterest is an essential tool for me as a teacher. It helps me visually organize content articles, activities, and graphic organizer worksheets into one place. I often search for key terms that I've recently learned in my licensure classes and find a deeper understanding of the concepts by reading several short articles in one sitting and then applying it by exploring lesson plan ideas. I could also see my students using Pinterest as a visual organizing tool.
The strengths of this program are in curating content into visually pleasing "boards" or folders. I like scrolling through pictures that other people have "pinned." I'm drawn in to an interesting image rather than always going for the text-based title of an article. I also collect many pins for personal home projects and am inspired by the images alone.
The challenges of Pinterest used to be that I couldn't create subfolders. However, I just noticed today that I can add a subcategory to my pin, so perhaps that's changed. Also, it's difficult to find the most recent information about a topic. Instead, when I search for a keyword I may have to scroll through a lot of material I've already seen. I haven't played around too much with the settings but I'm wondering if there's a way to change that algorithm.
Overall, I love Pinterest and plan to keep using it for personal and professional boards. I find it as visually appealing as Instagram but easier to save and curate ideas I want to return to. It feels like a Google search with images, and I love that I can focus on what I want to search for in the moment. Pinterest is an excellent teaching tool and I plan to use it for my classroom.
In case you are interested in the teaching boards I made for this assignment, I've embedded them in a gadget on my blog home page. Happy pinning!
Pinterest is an essential tool for me as a teacher. It helps me visually organize content articles, activities, and graphic organizer worksheets into one place. I often search for key terms that I've recently learned in my licensure classes and find a deeper understanding of the concepts by reading several short articles in one sitting and then applying it by exploring lesson plan ideas. I could also see my students using Pinterest as a visual organizing tool.
The strengths of this program are in curating content into visually pleasing "boards" or folders. I like scrolling through pictures that other people have "pinned." I'm drawn in to an interesting image rather than always going for the text-based title of an article. I also collect many pins for personal home projects and am inspired by the images alone.
The challenges of Pinterest used to be that I couldn't create subfolders. However, I just noticed today that I can add a subcategory to my pin, so perhaps that's changed. Also, it's difficult to find the most recent information about a topic. Instead, when I search for a keyword I may have to scroll through a lot of material I've already seen. I haven't played around too much with the settings but I'm wondering if there's a way to change that algorithm.
Overall, I love Pinterest and plan to keep using it for personal and professional boards. I find it as visually appealing as Instagram but easier to save and curate ideas I want to return to. It feels like a Google search with images, and I love that I can focus on what I want to search for in the moment. Pinterest is an excellent teaching tool and I plan to use it for my classroom.
In case you are interested in the teaching boards I made for this assignment, I've embedded them in a gadget on my blog home page. Happy pinning!
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