Social media in Learning adding Pinterest & Historypin

to your professional toolkit

CC-BY-SA State Library of NSW

Mylee Joseph | Innovation Project | State Library of NSWTwitter: @myleejoseph

Email: mjoseph@sl.nsw.gov.au

Teaching and Learning, Technology and Libraries State Library of New South Wales

Friday 24 May 2013

Session overview

Historypin• Exploring history on the map• Curating photographs (tours and collections)• Adding content to the map

Pinterest• Discovering images and resources• Collecting resources for use in class• Creating resources and sharing them

http://www.historypin.com

90 second introduction to Historypinhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdT3eKdto4w

Historypin ResourcesHistorypin apps (iOS, Android and Windows phone)http://www.historypin.com/app/

Historypin schools portalhttp://www.historypin.com/community/schools

How to guideshttp://www.historypin.com/community/howtos

Activity sheetshttp://www.historypin.com/community/schools-resources

State Library of NSW channelhttp://www.historypin.com/channels/view/11686538/

http://www.pinterest.com

Pinning 101http://about.pinterest.com/basics/

State Library on Pinterest

State Library of NSWhttp://www.pinterest.com/statelibrarynsw

Multicultural unithttp://www.pinterest.com/slnswlote

druginfohttp://www.pinterest.com/druginfolibsnsw

Pinterest resources

• 16 ways educators can use Pinterest http://mashable.com/2012/04/10/pinterest-teachers/

• Pinterest has a category for Education themed boards http://pinterest.com/all/?category=education

• Mashable category: Pinterest for recent news about updateshttp://mashable.com/category/pinterest/