Pinterest

Pinterest

As I was reading the discussion board post on Pinterest, I thought I would continue my exploration of this new tool in the class that was introduced this week on my blog. My use of pinterest was never educational and none of my friends had used ti for educational purposes. I had followed recipes for healthy eating and when my dessert cravings came I also followed dessert pages. Also, pinterest was a major tool in my community service sorority, Delta Nu Zeta. Since I had to make little gifts and big appreciation presents look in pinterest for sorority ideas was a huge help!

I followed the links provided on the course site and found that Pinterest is a good way to get products out there. I often found images of Etsy created items and thought about purchasing them. This was the marketing tool of Pinterest at work. I found this great simple page with five ways to incorporate Pinterest into an organization that is focused around a product.

I think this also could be helpful for educational purposes in the sense that if there was a template that could be posted or to find design to present information Pinterest can be a great place to start for ideas. Also, for younger education this could be a way to display children's work in the classroom for parents and administration to recognize that Mrs/ Smith class is making paper mache globes and how they are coming out.

I have created a EME6414 board in my pinterest account in order to save templates and cute saying that I think relate to the course!

Happy Pinning!

Nicole Reid

Week 2 - Update

Hello!!

I am thinking of topics for my vlog post tomorrow and I was wondering if any of my classmates had any cool ideas or topics that wanted to be addressed in it! My communities are flourishing with information and conversations. How are yours going?

I enjoyed Lukas interactive blog with a short quiz on FoMo. I couldn't run on Monday but I an ran two miles yesterday! Getting there!

Here is a link to a quiz/slideshow for my running people! It helps determine what running style best suits you!
http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/slideshow.asp?show=44

Fitness

Hello!

So I have decided to incorporate my communities into my blog. I have been interacting with a running community and have been encouraged to use a exercise ticker to monitor my progress! My goal for this week is a slow and steady 10 miles. Since I have several months until my half marathon, I decided to start out slow! I will update this every day or every other day to keep you up to date on my running progress.

On a side note I have decided to start to study for a group fitness certification! Still in the early stages and will take several months to complete but I will update you on my progress with that as well!


 



 Copy and paste link in broswer to have a preview of what I look like running through a field http://gph.is/1wyS6yx

 - Llama runner

Communities Week 2

Helllo!

Welcome to Week 2! I have been explore my communities for my paper and I been able to learn about others experiences. I am following a running community and participating in an e-learning heroes community. How is the community exploration going for you?


In my running community I found someone who was also starting to train for their half marathon and was able to start a conversation! I look forward in getting more involved as the course progresses.

- Fast and Furious

That's a Wrap

That is a wrap of week one in EME6414!

This week has been a large learning experience for me but a good one. I have been able to manage a lot of the new tools and keep up to date with new trends and topics. I now plan to post a vlog one a week. I have enjoyed the readings, the Networked book is really eye opening in terms of what social media can do, Kietzman also breaks down the social media in a work place. I can relate to the Kietzman article because at my work currently we are trying to get online academic advising which will hopefully make it easier and help student get on the correct path! I am enjoying observing my communities and I look forward to participating and lurking in the communities. Overall, great week and I look forward to engaging in more tools as we go!


- Up up and away!

Trying to Vlog

Hello EME6414!

This is a new social media avenue I am trying out, VLOGS! 

If you have any familiarity with them I would love comments and hints!

Tell me what you think! 

Day 3

So far in my use of a feed readers I have been able to add several of my classmates blogs which are very interesting and keep up with the conversations happening in each blog. I am still fiddling around trying to find my communities for my paper. I have thought about a few but they were solely blogs and not full fledged communities. I am looking forward to being a part of an online community as well as observing one! I enjoy learning new things and so far three days in I have learned so much! As I saw in some other blogs there was a suggestion of using vlogs (video blogs), so keep an eye out because one could be coming your way soon! 

- Intrigued and Determined