The past couple of weeks in Educational Technology class at HSU, we've been working with Pinterest and how to work with it in the classroom. I learned that Pinterest isn't just a social network that you can share cute pictures and recipes, but its a means of bookmarking things in cyberspace so that you can reach it from any computer. In essence, this mobile bookmarking website could be used in the classroom. In one project we did in class involving Pinterest, we used the website to find lessons in our specific content area that other users have posted and also pinned some lessons that we found elsewhere on the web. That's just one way it could be used. You could have a classroom account and post lessons so that students can access them. You can gather ideas to enhance your learning environment. People are posting décor ideas on Pinterest all the time. Students could use Pinterest for project ideas. They could even use Pinterest to make a project electronically viewable by the whole class! There are dozens of ways to use Pinterest in the classroom.
Recently, my class was assigned a project involving Pinterest where we get together several lessons, some from Pinterest and some from other websites that we pinned ourselves. With these lessons in mind, we were to construct our own product based learning lesson plan in our content area. Afterwards, we were to complete the project ourselves.
Here is my lesson plan:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6eXfEQz_KJBUExnQkdhalJnaEE/edit?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6eXfEQz_KJBWGY3LUFadzJzemM/edit?usp=sharing
Here is the product of my lesson step by step:
Step 1- Pick a song from the provided list.
Step 2- Write out the solfedge to your selected song
Step 3- Notate the song using the solfedge. Make sure to include the song title, your chosen clef, a time signature, appropriate accidentals, and measure lines.
