 pages, our YouTube channel, and so on. Yeah, we've got lots of overall, how many video tutorials, over a hundred on YouTube currently. So please do check into that and subscribe to our channel for good technology, good construction tutorials. So we'll go ahead and get started. And if you can't hear me, the back is giving signals, and I'm going to be out as a podium or lectern, great. So, very good, and I'm going to be running this off of a Google Doc, and just so you know, you do have access to everything I'm going to be sharing with you off of our website. If you scroll down on the main page, you'll see this was curating with Pinterest, and that if you click on that link will take you to a page that looks like this. And this page has a lot of links to our blog, some blog posts that we've created for Pinterest, and just the resources that you can take with you. I'm going to be running a little bit of the presentation off of something called Haiku Desk. It's one of my new favorite apps on iPad. I don't know if anyone out there has seen it yet, but it's a lot of fun to make a presentation. So that's how this one was created, very interesting. So we're talking about a lot of images today. So I thought that would be appropriate. Again, this is our website, and you'll notice the hashtag a lot of our things that we create. And that is our Twitter hashtag that we've created, and you'll see that on the Twitter screen a lot. If you have any Twitter users and feel free to follow our hashtag as well. We just made it to some of the top educational hashtags to follow, so we're very excited about that. There's a picture of us at Etsy, and our motto is to train, teach, lead, and inspire. And we have a really unique model in W Public Schools. I'd like to just share that with you for a minute before we get started. But we have things like Techie Tuesdays where teachers come and spend an entire day in our office, and there's stuff for a different pace for, and really it's just to get some time and come and learn something new and walk away competent. So we usually do Pinterest over the course of six hours, or we'll just scoop it over the course of six hours. So today will be a crash course in both of them, and we'll do the best to walk away pretty confident and ready to dive in with that. Online curation is what we're going to be talking about today, using the digital tools. And we all know our students, our kids, are searching the web, and usually they start Google. We love Google, but sometimes for a little person this can be a little frustrating. And when they're doing a project it's like finding a needle in a haystack. So you as an instructor need to have a digital presence where you can have something for your students, where you can really connect with them, and line your range and your nets of people that you can connect with. It doesn't matter if it's a Facebook page, a Twitter page, a big page, a Weebly site, whatever it is, it's really, really important now, whatever, to have some sort of digital presence. Because that allows us to connect with others in the world. So curating needs to take charge us to organize and to pull together. So why would you curate? You can share an idea, you can research a project, you can be a guide to your students, or maybe you just want to play for, you can house your favorite articles and refer back to that when you have time to read them. What is scuba? Scuba is really just a digital magazine that you create, and this is what it looks like. So this is just a screen capture of one of my scuba pages, and they just come in as blocks that you can then click on and go full article. Scuba is free for educators. You can curate up to five topics with scuba, and they have built-in social media ways to connect. They have Twitter built-in, Facebook connected to it, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Tumblr, and WordPress. So as you have a digital presence, you'll notice that Twitter and Facebook especially becomes connected to almost everything you have on the web. It's almost impossible to log in to some of these media sites without having a Twitter account or Facebook account. Here are a couple of my topics, all things ed tech and best teaching practices. So let's talk just for a few minutes about Pinterest. Scottie Penner is in the room, plus the email. Actually, it's about 40-60%. 60% email, 40% mail. So all of you men out there, don't be afraid to start pinning cool stuff. So Pinterest is really just a digital bulletin board, which is a court board for ideas. When Pinterest first starts coming out, a lot of people say, well, you're just copying other people's ideas. But it's actually just become a place of inspiration for others. And this is what it looks like, as most of you know. And as on the upper left-hand corner, Pinterest will actually suggest people for you to follow based on your topics that you have. And that way content just is delivered to you. How to pull this one in? I have a 15-year-old daughter who will spend hours on Pinterest. This is the new birthday present she makes for everybody. So some people like to pin and do things. They pin it, and then they did it. But these are just crayon, hot glue to cross the top, and then a hair dryer makes the wax and help down. And they turn out great. But just, there's so much stuff on Pinterest. And the other day, I was kind of pressing for this. I got so sucked in before I knew it, two hours have passed. But it's just a great place to find inspiration and ideas. The interesting thing is that those have a bookmarklet that you can just drag up to your router. And once that's done on your router, you can use anything that has an image associated with it. A few minutes difference on Pinterest, and then if there is no image, it's just a text-based page, you can import your own image to that. Pinterest has to have an image to do. But both of them have these bookmarklets that you can drag up to the router, and then you can scoop as you're just flipping the web. This is the picture of what the stupid app on a mobile device looks like. Susan has a built-in web crawler. And when you create your account on a topic, you put in keywords. Based on those keywords, the web crawler and stupid will suggest articles for you. I have to be honest with you, I'm not real crazy about the web crawler and stupid. It's usually inaccurate. I can sort of scoop my own content that I find off of other places. But it is there for you. That's no time to work. But other times, it suggests things that really don't have anything to do with my topic. And then of course, Pinterest, like I said, has a pin button that you will just drag that directly up to your router. You'll see, here's my stupid bookmarklet, and here's my pinnit bookmarklet. And you literally just take this and drag it straight up to your browser, and then it's always there for you. Where do I find content to scoop and to pin? Twitter is the number one place where I find my information, and it's really helpful when people tweet out links, because I can go check out the link. And if I like it, I can pin it, or I can scoop it. Again, there's our handle, so feel free to follow us on Twitter. Facebook is another right place to find content. This is a shot of our board, and of course our hashtag, TT4T. So you can re-pin other people's stuff. Sometimes it's like window shopping. You know, it's so visually pleasing, but it's okay to re-pin other people's things. But that is another form of our board, so we'll get into those, and you'll take a closer look in a few minutes about what we're pinning. And of course, Google. If you're good at searching on Google, it's a great place to find things to pin. And Facebook's unique in that you can follow pages. So this is just a screenshot of my inbox here, an email I opened up, and I follow this iPad and Education by John Evans. He puts out great stuff on his Facebook page, and every time he adds content to his topic, I get an email. So I can choose to go take a look at it or not, and sometimes I re-scoot his stuff. It sounds funny, but I re-scoot the things that he used, and I start building my topic that way. And then you'll see Ann Bellman on the right there. She has one called Sexual Technology Resources. And so I follow her, of course, and then I can see where she's grouping. I can read about it. I can re-scoot it. I can pin it. I can tweet it. Just share it. That is the point. Curate and sharing. YouTube, you can pin YouTube videos, and you can scoop YouTube videos. So that's always a great place to find excellent content. So as a media person, what are some things that you might create? What are some words that you might want to pin? So you can create a school board. Maybe it's just a way to share what's going on in your building with images, or maybe there's a project that you have coming up, or maybe you've got scholastic books there coming up, and you want to pin those books that are coming in. So it's a great way to advertise things. Maybe you want a Pinterest board on your books that are being published, or genre boards, or author boards. Authors actually, you'd be surprised how many popular authors and artists do have boards, and they're pinning things that inspire them to write. So a great way to see what might your favorite author be working on is to check Pinterest and see if they're pinning series shells, or if they're pinning spaceships, or whatever they're pinning. A lot of authors will use Pinterest as an inspiration place. The really fun thing about Pinterest is that you can make it a collaborative plate to share. So you can invite people to be pinnered. So this is just a screenshot of one of our boards. I developed this one this week, Media Center, and I could just come here and then type in your email address, and then you become a collaborator on our board. You do have to have a Pinterest account for this. So if you want someone that you know has some really good stuff to share, and you want them to be a collaborator on your board, make sure we have a Pinterest account, and you know what that email address is that's associated with that account. And then they need to become a collaborator on that board, if you don't always have to be thinking about that particular board. Let's take a look a little bit further with the video on scuba, and then on Pinterest, and then we'll do some live demos here on how to make this happen. Jack is looking for more of this content because he's been into this for years. Jack knows a lot on electric guitar, but no one knows that. Jack wants to share his passion. He would love to create media to express himself easily. He tries existing tools, but they didn't quite meet his needs. Vlogs can be complex to set up and maintain, and inspiration is granted every day. Neither is the time to write, and in the end, he is simply better at playing guitar than writing. If only there were a better, more effective solution. Good news! Today the solution exists. Now that he's discovered scuba, Jack creates his topic about electric guitar. Scuba crawls a web for them, and regularly beats him with suggested content on electric guitar. Jack simply selects or scoops the best ones, and of course he can edit them real too, if he feels inspired. He can also grab the pages he likes whenever browsing the web, and in just a few clicks, he's created a beautiful web page dedicated to his favorite topic. Now he can share his topic with the world and invite people to follow him. But people Jack's topic, they're happy to discover great content curated by Jack. And furthermore, they can participate by suggest a row of the links they found out their side. Jack is now very proud of this topic. It's your favorite topic. In that video, because I was worried about, I was worried about the network of being able to play directly on my tube, so sorry, I apologize to the biker background already there, but you get the picture there. So let's just focus on scuba and hot pictures for a few minutes. And what I'd like to do is to show you how to create a scuba page and how quick and easy it is. And we thought it would be kind of fun to create a scuba page on a conference that you guys were attending, so that you can follow it or maybe make your own scuba page. And when you go back to your building, you can just share out your page and say here's everything I learned at the conference. So we're going to start from the beginning. I'm going to click over here on my scuba page here and log in. I do have a profile set up. It's always important when you think about digital presence to make a profile, so people know who they're following, especially on Twitter. No one wants to follow an egghead. You know, you really need to have your picture out there and just something simple about yourself so people know what your interests are. So here are my topics, all things as tech, best teaching practices, emerging literacy, and then a personal one here. But what I'm going to do, I've got one more to create because I get five free, right? So I'm going to come down here and I'm going to create a topic. And scuba has like a built-in walk you through step by step thing that they're like pop-ups that kind of move you through your process. So it's so, so easy. And we're going to call this NLA 2012, okay? And we'll say this page is all about the content from NLA 2012 conference. We're going to keep it in English today. And then some key words. These are the words that is going to tell the web crawler what to suggest for you. So I want words that go with the conference. So how about some shout-outs here? What are some words that might describe the content of the conference here? Okay, social media, 21st century, call that 21st century learning. So that narrows it down a bit. It's N-B-L-N-P-L. N-P-L, I know. I keep hearing that, huh? Okay, so now I'm going to say go. Now you're going to know there's a lot of things that are going to pop in here that really aren't related to our conference today. That's going to show you a difference between how the web crawler works and how I work with content and which one I think is more effective. But we'll go ahead and say go. Here's where it's saying, oh, look, you can just take this button and drag it up to your browser. But I already have that. But when you get started, you might not have that. So you just literally drag it up there. I'm going to say, okay, start curating. And here's that built-in web crawler. Okay, oh, we're going to go in the light here. There we go. So I've got articles, the 10 best books about liberal media jobs that's not related. Okay. So let's face it, 21st century medical educator, again, not related. But it's picking up those keywords. Google's open source builder, Dytle, and it's, okay, that one sounds not bad, although it has nothing to do with what we learned today. Okay, so I'm not going to excuse myself because that's not my topic. Google's open source and so on. But nothing is falling in here. And you can tell a lot of these are from Google blog, Google news, they're really tied in very tightly with Google for that first engine. But what I'd rather do is check over on my Twitter feed on what's going on Twitter with the conference. So I'm going to come over here to Twitter. And I might have some magic working in the background for me here. But okay, so what I have here is my friend Brett over here. He's retweeting things that have been tweeted throughout the conference. So on Twitter, he is looking at the Twitter stream hashtag in LA 2012. And he's retweeting things. And you'll notice he's mentioning me. So I have it to work with to demo this for you guys. So I'm going to just kind of scroll down through here and pick up a couple of links. Oh, here's an e-mail site. Is this from today? Thank you. So I'm going to click on the link and see if that goes with my super topic. Okay, very good. Let's look at some good resources here and some things happening over here. So I'm going to zoom that up. My scuba popped up a little window over here. And this is the case where there's no image out there. There's an image. Actually, I've got three images to choose from. Probably don't want to put someone's personal image on there without their permission, especially this particular context. I like this image. And it gives the title up here as well. So I'm going to say, yep, I like that. Let's publish that. We'll take a look at that in just a second. Let's head back over to Twitter here. And here's a crazy, oh that's fun. What does it mean to be litter at the 21st century? Perfect. Let's see if we can scoop up a privacy. Okay, very nice. It'll tell you how many images you have to choose from here one to one. So I'll only have one on this one and that's fine. We'll scoop that one up over to Twitter. Okay, here's the conference website. You can scoop that one up too. So you kind of see what I'm doing. How much better that works when you have that scuba button on your browser. They're just relying on their web crawler. I like the idea of the web crawler, but it really is not definitely their first purpose. So this one's not picking up the particular image. So even though you want to get really fancy, you can just take a screenshot of that and then you'll find your image. And it has so we can just go. I'm going to go get my own image for this one. So let's go take a look at what our scuba page looks like. So huge topic. So let's get a few minutes to kind of think up there. So when I scoop something over here, my mistake, there's just a drop down right here. So there's a drop down where you can choose the one that you want. And this one by default was on the one I was working on earlier. So all the ones I just scooped, they're on the wrong page. But that's not a big deal. I can just go click on them and read scuba and put them on the right one. So I can show you how to delete those as well. So here's the one of the ways that we just scooped up here. And you'll notice that you've got some choices here of deleting. I can edit and write on those. I can rearrange them. And I can also delete them. You can kind of see how you can create a very fast digital sizing to share out. And then if you were viewing my page, yours would say follow here. Mine goes curate because I'm logged in. So it's just that simple to go and you can go through this and search up here and for topics. And then you'll be able to find those pages. So feel free to follow our pages and get content that way. And feel free to create a magazine from everything you've learned today. But the key is you have to get to the content. There has to be an image. If there's not, you can grab one. And then it's so, so super easy. So any questions about scuba before we get into, yes? You can delete a topic all together. It's not as easy as you think it might be. I think we had to do some emailing too, but directly earlier in the year to do that. But it is possible. Yeah, good question. So you're not at all. In fact, you know, those pages are endless vertically. And that is how scuba is. It just goes and goes and goes and goes and goes. So, you know, it's sometimes it gets like, there's a lot on this one, you know, might be time to sort of take, take some things off and pressure it up or rearrange it. But the answer is no, it can just go on. Yeah. But it's interesting. Back in the 70s, you found a snatching picture of a wooden shelf that you want to buy. You cut around it, put it on your holy scrapbook and keep it under your pillow. Fast forward to the 90s, even in storms all over the world, people are stirring the web and right-clicking is the way to grab a picture of a wedding gown you've always dreamed of. But then you have to save it, put it on a floppy disk and risk to lose it. It's a new world. There's got to be something better than this. Use Pinterest. Collect pictures from any website with your browser, laptop, tablet, mobile and post them on your board. Create as many boards as you want, cute animal babies. Delicious looking cookies you just made. Think that your husband really wants for Christmas or your proud collection of every chocolate or his movies. Anything you can think of. Once in, your pins are shared with other pinners who can repend them on their own boards. You can also follow other pinners to get updates on their pins. It's a fun and simple way to share it in your life and do others with similar interest across the globe. It goes beyond just sharing pictures. Interests can be used as events. Share recipes or do yourself projects and promote style. Interests. Get your invitation today and start painting. It's an inspirational term. The ideas and the possibilities become endless, where it's stupid, just can't limit you. It's more a really tight-curating site. Very focused. Where you can have multiple boards, hundreds of boards and just add to them all the time. So what we've got here is our TT Brutti Pinterest board and we have some boards that are empty and we have some boards that are not empty. But these guys teach online classes to our teachers at Bellevue and one of them is Pinterest and so what they've done is created these boards and have their having people collaborate throughout the class to add content to the board. So anything from first grade to math to app. It really started with just the educational technology side of it and now our boards are just kind of growing and falling out like a big map. So it's really really fun and I think what's so cool about Pinterest is that it's so visually pleasing. So I just I love I love Pinterest. I do get stuck into it as a lot of people do. But you need to think about Pinterest as a way to advertise what's going on in your school to connect to your students to connect to your parents and I love the idea of making it collaborative for people that are already pinning. You know they've got some really good things to share and they create those accounts and add them as pinners to your board. So it's also you'll see like Vicki Davis she's kind of a nice person to connect to with me. I check world. She's our stuff. And so you can kind of see who is who's kind of following ours as well. So any questions about Pinterest? Because I feel like a lot of people are really new with Pinterest but I think what's really important is how you think about it as an educator and not just a place to go hang out. That's just like to pin your favorite dress or the light fishing rod or whatever it is. But to really narrow it down, how would I use this in my library? So to really you know advertise what's going on. It could just be your library website. It could be as simple as that and you're even pinning maybe you have a blog and you want to pin your blog post to your board. So that's to become like a great big circle of digital content. And then once you've added to your board then you tweet out so you've added to your board. Like people are following you and they can see what you're sharing. I'm like that's what I'm aware of and have you run into that at all with Pinterest? And she's one of our collaborators, yes? She's on our second grade board. Yes. We should take a look at our second grade board here. Yeah, it's fun. It's very fun. I visited her class from the other day and she just gave me a tour of her room. She goes, oh I got that on Pinterest and I did it and I got this on Pinterest and I did it and I did this and I did this and look at this. And she goes, now I have a board called Pin it did it and it's just fabulous. So yeah, it's very fun. Can you search Pinterest? I mean, if there's 6500, I really don't want to go through, can you search? Yes, there's a search right up here. So let's type in media center, right? Let's try a library. No, this is all about Pinterest. If you know the name of the printer, I think so. That'd be fun. Somebody give me one of your favorite author names up here. So these look like they've been penned by other people. This is what I'm saying. We can get lost in Pinterest, but five, ten, one life on activity. So there's some books. Okay, yeah, there's questions about Pinterest. Again, it's important to make a profile too and have some things that people want to follow. Yeah, it's a great way to share. And a lot of people they'll say, well come on, Shedda, I want to share my stuff on my classroom, that classroom, because I just work half a place. Well, it's really just, it's already there called Pinterest. So don't agree with something that's already so successful. Just create a word and allow people, but then they take an image of a project that they found with their phone and then they can act. I mean, just as simple as that, it doesn't have to be a blog. It doesn't have to be an author's book cover. It could be just as simple as something that your students have done in your media center and you want to capture that image. That's how people are marketing their stuff. Someone does take a picture of it. You might as well be the one to take a picture of your student order or a favorite book or an author that comes to visit your media center and then create a word. It is just about how you think about it. Yeah, just text. I mean, I'm just trying to think if I wasn't to say I have this blog, this is a new book, do a picture and text. Absolutely. Yes. Yes, they use the whole faces that you can annotate over that. Yeah, definitely. And yeah, that's the key because really, if you're just pretending other people's things, what's the point of that unless it just really truly gives you inspiration? But it needs to be content that stays fresh. And one way to do that is for it to be your content, for it to be things that you're creating, for it to be your blog that you have or your website that you just updated. So keeping Pinterest fresh, I think it's really, really important. And to think about it as a tool to really leverage and share the great things that you're doing and the great things that your students are doing. So yeah, we could get lots of Pinterest and just you know, just like from the web, but what's the point of it? So it needs to have a direction, it needs to have a point. And you might as well be the ones who are creating content. Because it's really not that hard. You got an iPhone, you got a smartphone, you got a digital camera, you're done. So just kind of, you know, it's really, really, again, how we think about the tool. And your interests, is there anything you want to add to our Pinterest account? Today, I'm talking about the vision. I think the vision is so key because as you start curing that topic, you really want to focus on an idea for you, especially the positions that you're in, you may want to think about it in a broader sense instead of putting for yourself, but maybe you're putting for your building, putting for a district, putting for a library, putting for a community. And so as you start to create that and create those boards, the idea of adding that pin or two of board is something that's maybe more new to you with Pinterest. The idea of repinning and pinning could be there, but this actual adding a pin or two to your board, you add their email that's associated with their Pinterest board. So you have to be careful like if they have a school email, maybe that's not how they sign up to Pinterest. But they, you give them access then to that board. So you're not just fairly in charge of that content. But then they'll continue to pin to your boards. And then after you get 30 or so pins, then you'll stop and take time to maybe create another board from that and then reorganize that for people. And then you can, you know, decide which things you want to key for or not. But then that gives other people some voice to it and let other people help you build something that your building will need or your district would use. So that could be something that just kind of fit that seed in your head about the big picture of Pinterest board. You know, for us, the way we started that too is we share a Gmail address. So the three of us all log in together as BPS techies. And so that way we can all have access to those boards. And then we also share those boards out there with other teachers with that generic, you know, password for the three of us. So it's kind of a nice way to that if you have maybe other colleagues that you'd like to start with, maybe you want to start a board that's not your personal board, but to start with a board that's generic. So that maybe even two of somebody would leave your position or take it over, or however that all works, you know, that board will still stay two in place for that district. So that's something to think about. So I just tweeted out the link to this particular student page. I'm going to edit this up a little bit and re-greed that in online one on the right topics there. And I also just tweeted out the hashtag in LA 2012, our district board. So you have access to those as well. I'd like to just direct you back over to our website for a moment here. And again, if you just click on the link, then you're going to come to this Google. And how many of you have a district where Pinterest is blocked? Anybody? Because that, yeah, so it certainly happened to us last year. We wanted to get rolling in the district out of block. So if you want some support to persuade the powers to be that it's a good idea, there is an article here on the Google Doc that you have access to now. So you might want to read through that. It might give you some ammo for your position there. So there's also four Pinterest articles here that give you more information on how to use Pinterest, how to keep Pinterest fresh, and some ideas for your media center as well. This is my presentation that is a high subject you have access to. And we have a couple of blog posts on our blog as well. So you really have a slew of information now to put in your pocket and take with you and digest and think about. Any other questions about Pinterest or Scuse It before? I know it's been a long day of learning. I appreciate you guys being here late today. But really with Pinterest and Scuse It, you really do, you know, you have the tools that you need. You don't have to try to think of a way to share things across the district or across the globe. So I hope that you guys will dive in and start to read that. Once I get that in LA 2012, I guess I'll reach that out to you guys because I'm happy about that. Basically, I'm happy to be with all of you and all of us. We know it's mine. I'll be happy to help you as well.