Fighting Teacher Isolation with Technology

I found this short article "Fighting Teacher Isolation with Technology"  from a 4th grade teacher with tips on how to use Twitter, Google Hangouts, Pinterest, and Professional Learning Networks (like LINCS) to fight teacher isolation helpful.  Although she's a 4th grade teacher, I think her ideas are great and applicable for adult ed teachers who often find themselves as the only math teacher in a rural area program or the evening ESL teacher. She shares how teachers are using Pinterest to share classroom ideas much the way they do in the teacher's lounge or when visiting a colleague's classroom (without having to do so!).  Who has used Pinterest in this way?  I would love to follow you.  Can you tell us how you got started?  

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Hi Michelle -

Thank you for posting on Pinterest! You beat me to it! I am also interested in finding out if any adult educators are using Pinterest to inspire their classrooms. I am not currently active on Pinterest, but my good friend who teaches 3rd graders recently invited me to follow her Pinterest page and I was pleasantly surprised at how easily ideas are organized on Boards.

I have asked her for permission to share her page publicly on the LINCS Community: http://pinterest.com/k8hart9/

You can see that she has Boards for the following topics:

  • Math teaching ideas
  • Literacy block
  • Classroom management
  • Anchor charts
  • Beginning of the year
  • End of the year
  • Science
  • Movie themed classroom
  • Classroom organization
  • Classroom data
  • Classroom ideas

Her page really inspired me to start pinning! If you are not using Pinterest, I hope the page inspires you. If you are using Pinterest for adult education, please share your page with the community. We'd all love to see how Pinterest is being used by adult educators.

I-Fang

 

 

Thanks for sharing I-Fang, I followed her literacy and math boards had some ideas that would be applicable for adult educators.  Even more so, it inspired me to start building my own boards and "pinning", I will let you know when I have something worth sharing or if I stumble across others who already have some great things out there.  

Here is the i-Pathways Pinterest site. http://pinterest.com/ipathways/

We have used Pinterest for a couple of years and will be reorganizing it slightly to make the boards more content specific. I think Pinterest can be a wonderful PD tool. 

Kathy 

Hi all,

I did a workshop on Visual Bookmarking with Pinterest at COABE in March.  The powerpoint is available on the COABE Repoistiory http://www.coabe.org/html/resourcerepository.html#pinterest.  There were quite a few attendees who had been unsing Pinterest for personal enjoyment but had not thought about using it with students.

I've started aboard  for iPad apps useful for adult education and I would love to collaborate so if you would like to join that board let me know and I'll add you as a collaborator.  http://pinterest.com/nelightful/ipad-apps-for-adult-ed/

 

best,

Nell 

I have several Pinterest boards, not all education, not all adult ed, but lots of resources. I love it because of its visual nature and the ease of following others to get ideas. It's also easy to learn and easy to use. Two of my top requirements for tech. Here are a few of my boards:

http://pinterest.com/discovertesol/adult-education/

http://pinterest.com/discovertesol/esol-tefl-resources/

http://pinterest.com/poochiesan24/edtech/

http://pinterest.com/poochiesan24/jobscareersbusiness-advice/

http://pinterest.com/discovertesol/technology-for-the-classroom/

http://pinterest.com/poochiesan24/techy-stuff/

AND, of course, many food and other non-education related boards. Feel free to follow and share:

 

I also like Scoop.it and LiveBinders - great resources for saving, sharing, and collaborating with others

 

Hi Patty and all,

Patty, how do you use these three tools (Pinterest, Sccop.it and LiveBinders) differently or similarly? All three are great for pulling together content form the internet but they feel very different.  Also some are more automated than others.  So I'm wondering if you post content to all three, do you post differently based on audience?  

best,

Nell 

The Florida Literacy Coalition uses Pinterest to target tutors and literacy practitioners seeking more resources to use in their teaching. FLC has boards on Health Literacy, Tutor Tips, Financial Literacy, Learning Disabilities, etc., and they're updated regularly. A good way to start is to search for existing boards and users that post content you're seeking. It's a good idea to see what they're posting and which boards they're posting to. This can help you get a feel of the kind of content you might want to share.

If you'd like to follow FLC, here is our account: http://pinterest.com/floridaliteracy/