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The everyday use of smartphones with high quality built-in cameras has lead to an increase in museum visitors' use of these devices to document and share their museum experiences. In this paper, we investigate how one particular photo sharing application, Instagram, is used to communicate visitors' experiences while visiting a museum of natural history. Based on an analysis of 222 instagrams created in the museum, as well as 14 interviews with the visitors who created them, we unpack the compositional resources and concerns contributing to the creation of instagrams in this particular context. By re-categorizing and re-configuring the museum environment, instagrammers work to construct their own narratives from their visits. These findings are then used to discuss what emerging multimedia practices imply for the visitors' engagement with and documentation of museum exhibits. Drawing upon these practices, we discuss the connection between online social media dialogue and the museum site.

The project aims to design and implement a website that displays user uploaded data and allows infinite scrolling. We are developing the project using Django framework, where every user from anywhere around the world can share their creativity in the form of Pins in front of everyone. There will also be some other technologies for giving the project a complete form that are HTML and CSS etc. In the present climate, there's a remarkable increase in users getting attracted towards social media sites, Pinterest Clone therefore Script renders like a boon for social media activists. It allows users to save, share, and like pins/images to get connected and stay in touch with heterogeneous people globally.

To Pinterest or not to Pinterest? – that is the question:
Evaluating the usefulness of Pinterest as online self-access material at Southampton Solent University, UK.

Whistance (2015) puts forward that the use of Pinterest at Southampton Solent University increases student engagement, promotes inclusivity and develops employability skills.  The first part of this paper will review this reflective case study, explaining the rationale behind using social bookmarking sites and specifically Pinterest by linking to research and implementation from other educators.  The aims of the project at Southampton Solent University will be outlined in relation to its context and student needs with the aid of visuals to showcase material.

The second part of this paper will then evaluate the real impact of Pinterest through a more rigorous approach.  The online platform will be analysed with reference to Tomlinson’s (2010) ‘Principles and Procedures for Self-Access Materials’ which link to Second Language Acquisition theories.  In addition, feedback obtained from international students at Southampton Solent University will also be disseminated.

References

 Tomlinson, B. (2010). Principles and procedures for self-access materials. Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 1(2), pp.72-86.

 Whistance, J. (2015). Reflective case study. My ‘Pinteresting’ project: Using Pinterest to increase student engagement, promote inclusivity and develop employability skills. Dialogue, Volume 5, pp.50-58. Retrieved from: http://issuu.com/stlc/docs/dialogue_5__final/51

Social media skills are used in nearly every organization so students should be prepared in a strategic way to compete in this environment where their careers are enhanced or eliminated by their social media use (Preston, 2012).  One social media platform in the news for preparing students for work is Pinterest (Kimm, 2012; Delello, 2012). Pinterest. McWhorter (2010) described how Virtual HRD has emerged over time beginning with the use of information technology (IT) and progressing to sophisticated technologies that create  spaces for meeting through and within the technology. Such innovation allows for “technology-mediated work, learning and development that are strategic and innovative” (p. 624) necessitating the field of HRD to develop an understanding of how these technologies are expanding the workplace.  McWhorter (2011) defined Virtual HRD as: “the process of utilizing technologically integrative environments for increasing learning capacity and optimizing individual, group, community, work process, and organizational system performance” (p. 3) which is advantageous for considering Pinterest as a facilitator to prepare higher education students for the workplace.

In the present world, the role of social media, as the important and actual tool of marketing communication is relevant for operation of commercial organizations, since according to various studies, the number of social media users amounts ¬¬¬¬to nearly half of the world population; consequently, social network platforms developed into important channel of communication between commercial organizations and their target audiences. The said world trend determines actuality of the theme discussed in the present work.
The present Master’s Thesis: “Social Media Competence and the Importance of Its Position on the Example of Specific Organizations” looks at representation of Georgian commercial organizations on social media platforms; the scope of the paper encompasses studying communication competence of the said commercial organizations and consequent assessment of professional competences of Georgia’s social media professionals.
Taking into account scarcity of literature and relevant Georgian market specific studies  on social media marketing, the aim of this study is to motivate next-stage development of this field in Georgia which is a prerequisite for satisfying  trends and requirements existing in the contemporary world.     
In the framework of this study, the author looked at the potential, platforms and functional specifics of the social media sphere; in the course of the work performed, relevant literature was reviewed, both Georgian and international statistical data on social media was gathered and analyzed, qualitative and quantitative studies were conducted. 
In order to meet the aims of the thesis, relevant design was selected for the study to be implemented in the form of a qualitative self-administered questionnaire survey conducted online, encompassing primarily closed and categorical questions, including one open and one multiple-choice question, in total 37 questions. 
Sampling, the target population of which were Georgian customers of social media, was conducted in June 2019 (2.06.2019 – 28.06.2019), through non-randomized sampling method. The qualitative study covers responses received from 210 interviewees.
Qualitative study was conducted employing so called content-analysis  technique for content-wise and technical audit of representation of three Georgian commercial organizations - “Samoseli Pirveli”, “Alaznistavi” and “Soplidan” - on social media platform “Facebook”. In order to avoid bias in selection, principle of selection of these companies was based on their participation in the competition for nomination - “ Creation of Best Product or Service”  and prize for “Digital Strategy and New Website”  - both organized  by JSC “ TBC BANK” - leading company for  social media marketing, generally innovative decision-making and conduct of marketing campaigns.
The results of the study show that unfortunately competence in the field of social media marketing is lacking in Georgia.  No implications can be drawn from qualitative and quantitative studies conducted.  Notwithstanding the fact, that companies selected for analysis were among those  nominated  by JSC “ TBC BANK”,  respondents participating in quantitative study preceding the conduct of the qualitative study, did not name  any of the  companies studied by the author for content-analysis in the framework of the qualitative study. 
Quantitative study results showed that respondents were actively using social media platforms for communication, information gathering, are subscribers of Georgian websites, yet they are completely disregarding commercial organization blogs and are irresponsive to commercial advertisements (57.3% of respondents). 61.8% of those interviewed say commercial organization pages on all platforms are filled in with similar type of content, which is not as interesting as to motivate subscribers to react. The study showed that majority of organizations are not exploiting social media management tools – monitoring system, artificial intelligence programs, leaving them unable to fully take advantage of social media. The abovementioned attests to low level of digital literacy in the country.
Based on the analysis conducted, it can be said that two pillars viewed by the author as  prerequisites for social media management development in Georgia are  professional education and  awareness raising of the society, in particular raising responsiveness of managers of commercial organizations.

La comunicación organizacional se encuentra en un proceso de transformación. Evoluciona de una comunicación de masas controlada, destinada a la promoción asimétrica y unidireccional a una nueva era de la información multimediática en la Red. Esta evolución se caracteriza por incorporar la participación global de los usuarios. Desde siempre, durante el proceso de decisión y compra de un producto o servicio, el cliente busca información y referencias de la oferta, pero, este proceso de comunicación, en la actualidad, está influenciado por una actitud colaborativa del usuario, que implica comunicación bidireccional e interactiva en planos de igualdad por ambas partes.

Oltre al miglioramento del programma in sé, Sky ha investito parte delle sue risorse nella promozione e marketing per riuscire sia a mantenere i suoi clienti sia ad attrarne dei nuovi. Per farlo, oltre a evidenziare il miglioramento qualitativo del prodotto, ha adottato una strategia basata sull'uso dei social media, che con il passare delle edizioni sono diventati sempre di più parte integrante e fondamentale del programma, sia per la promozione sia per permettere una comunicazione diretta con gli spettatori, rendendoli sempre più presenti e partecipativi. Questo ha attirato e coinvolto un pubblico sia giovane sia adulto colto e ben istruito, permettendo così di cambiare radicalmente la percezione dello show, trasformandolo in un programma "cool" di cui non solo vale la pena parlare, ma addirittura un evento da cui non si vuole essere esclusi.

PANDUAN PENULISAN LAPORAN AKHIR OJT Penulisan Laporan Akhir OJT adalah salah satu elemen penilaian yang menyumbang markah sebanyak 20% dari keseluruhan penilaian OJT. Pelajar dikehendaki menyediakan laporan ini berdasarkan panduan kandungan yang diberikan. Laporan ini boleh disediakan dalam bentuk bercetak seperti, berjilid kulit keras, buku (ring binding, perfect binding). 15.1 Kandungan

Since its beginnings in the middle of the 19th century, fashion has been narrated through multiple media, both visual and verbal, and for such different purposes as marketing and advertising, art, costume history, social research and cultural dissemination. In this light, fashion has represented an important piece of material culture in modern industrial urban societies and in postcolonial and non-western contexts. Today, we are witnessing a turn in this imaginary as issues related to social, environmental and cultural sustainability come to predominate in many areas of human activity.
The book addresses this challenge. By facilitating encounters between disciplines and cultures, it explores a multitude of fashion issues, practices and views that feed the contemporary fashion imaginary: local cultures, linguistic codes, TV series, movies, magazines, ads, blogs, bodily practices. The book deals with a paramount issue for fashion studies: how do the production and circulation of fashion imaginary come about in the 21st century?

Seleccionar un nuevo medio para el análisis y plasmar sus ventajas y desventajas en relación a los medios tradicionales teniendo en cuenta conexión, comunicación, branding y reputación de marca, información, relaciones, confianza / desconfianza, rol en la audiencia, costos, entre otros.

Bu çalışmada, TÜBİTAK`ın Bilimsel Eğitim Etkinliklerini Destekleme Programı desteğiyle gerçekleştirilen “Öğretmen Adaylarına Yönelik Web 2.0 Araçlarının İncelenmesi ve Öğrenme Ortamlarında Kullanımı Semineri’ne katılan öğretmen adaylarının görüşleri incelenmiştir. 8-12 Şubat 2016 tarihleri arasında gerçekleştirilen etkinlikte, öğretmen adaylarına Web 2.0 araçlarının sağladığı sosyal, işbirlikçi, paylaşımlı, etkileşimli sanal ortamlarda öğrencilere rehberlik edebilmeleri için gerekli pedagojik bilgi ve beceriler aktarılmıştır. Web 2.0 araçları belirlenen sekiz ayrı başlık altında, “Sosyal Ağlar (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Delicious, Pinterest)”, “İnteraktif Sunum Araçları (Prezi, SlideShare, PowToon)”, “Çevrimiçi Depolama ve Dosya Paylaşım Araçları (Dropbox, Google Drive, Yandex Disk)”, “Web Günceleri ve İşbirlikli Yazarlık Araçları (Blog, Wikipedia, Wikispaces)”, “Çevrimiçi Anket ve Sınav Araçları (Google Doc, Survey Monkey, Poll Everywhere)”, “Animasyon ve Video Araçları (GoAnimate, Creaza, Animoto, Kerpoof)”, ”Kavram Haritası ve Çizim Araçları (Bubbl.us, Cacoo, Scribblar)”, “İçerik Yönetim Sistemleri (Moodle, Edmodo, Edublogs, Wordpress)” gibi ele alınarak eğitim ortamında nasıl kullanılabileceği uygulamalı olarak gösterilmiştir. Etkinliğe 17 farklı üniversite, 10 farklı bölümden toplam 40 öğretmen adayı katılmıştır. Etkinlik sonrasında, öğretmen adaylarının görüşleri anket yoluyla toplanmıştır. Öğretmen adayları özellikle etkinlik bünyesinde eğitim veren akademisyenler ve etkinlik sonrası kazanımlar hakkında olumlu görüşler belirtmiştir. Ayrıca, benzer etkinlik konuları hakkında önerilerde bulunmuştur.

At this time, as we find ourselves within the 200th anniversary of the photographic experiments of Wedgewood, Davies, Neipce and, if Geoffrey Batchen is right, a host of other inventors, we are witnessing a transfer of the power of photography from the chosen few to the masses – everyone is now a photographer and the camera-made image synonymous with life itself.

This study explores social media users' personality traits and motivations for the usage of two different social media platforms, Facebook and Pinterest, as well as how the varied uses impact users' negative emotional experiences. The findings suggest that the intensity of social media usage is positively related to negative emotions. For Facebook users, socialization, entertainment, and information seeking motivations significantly influence their platform use intensity and, subsequently, lead to negative emotions. Self-status seeking also has a direct effect on Facebook users' negative emotions. For Pinterest users, socialization is not a significant motivation for usage of that platform. However, entertainment, information seeking, and self-status seeking significantly predict their platform use intensity, which subsequently lead to negative emotions. Similarly, all four motivations for Facebook and Pinterest uses are influenced by users' personality traits: extraversion and openness. Yet, openness has a greater impact on using Pinterest than Facebook in terms of fulfilling socialization needs. Neuroticism has a positive impact on socialization and information seeking motives for use of both platforms, while conscientiousness and agreeableness have a negative influence on fulfilling self-status seeking needs. In addition, agreeable social networking site users are less likely to use Facebook than Pinterest for fulfilling self-status related gratifications, while they are likely to use Pinterest instead of Facebook for entertainment and information needs. Implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.

With more tourists researching and booking their travel entirely online, the use of social networking sites (SNSs) has gained popularity amongst both tourists and destination marketing organizations (DMOs). This study examined tourist photographs shared online via the image-based SNS of Pinterest in an effort to understand whether these types of new consumer technologies might be used by DMOs to better target potential visitors. Through visual analysis, the Pinterest photographs of four heritage tourist destinations were explored: Tombstone, Arizona; Virginia City, Nevada; Deadwood, South Dakota; and Dodge City, Kansas. Study findings provide discussion of Pinterest photographs, their visual representation of heritage tourist destinations, and the unique insights that an analysis of these photographs might offer to DMOs. ARTICLE HISTORY

Sociological studies show that Internet access, skills, uses, and outcomes vary between different population segments. However, we lack differentiated statistical evidence of the social characteristics of users of distinct social media platforms. We address this issue using a representative survey of Great Britain and investigate the social characteristics of six major social media platforms. We find that age and socioeconomic status are driving forces of several—but not all—of these platforms. The findings suggest that no social media platform is representative of the general population. The unrepresentativeness has major implications for research that uses social media as a data source. Social media data cannot be used to generalize to any population other than themselves.

E-learning 2.0 has marked the change from individual, passive learning, to student’s collaborating to improve their knowledge. Multitasking and ubiquitous computing represented a turning point in learners’ using various devices to gain information. The Internet extended from the desktop towards iPhones, tablets, etc. while classroom activities escaped the traditional framework and moved on to the virtual medium. Differentiated instruction has represented the dawn of modern instruction and gained momentum due to the changes in the Information Society. Social media have thus become extremely popular among learners as it transformed their experience in an entertaining and engaging one. If Facebook and Twitter have already become commonplace in terms of public use and acceptance as learning tools, other platforms seem to have emerged in the last years in an attempt to topple the popularity of the former. Gaining impetus in the last years, Pinterest has drawn the attention of ESL teacher because of its benefits to visual learners, its resemblance to the ESL textbooks, and its use as an online scrapbook suitable to incorporate a variety of materials (pictures, infographics, media files, links etc.).

“Kriz İletişim Yönetimi Rehberi”, İçişleri Bakanlığı İç Güvenlik Stratejileri Dairesi Başkanlığı tarafından; kriz iletişim yönetimine ilişkin kavramları açıklamak; terör, güvenlik, doğal afet, iş kazası, halk sağlığı, yangın gibi kriz durumlarının iletişim yönetim sürecine ilişkin genel bir model oluşturmak üzere hazırlanmıştır.

This article will give an overview of my Pinterest project, outlining a rationale for using social bookmarking sites and specifically Pinterest. It will then outline the aims of my practice, linking to research and implementation by other educators, before describing the boards I have set up with visuals and finally evaluating its impact and looking forward to future possibilities for research.

User experience in modern content discovery applications critically depends on high-quality personalized recommendations. However, building systems that provide such recommendations presents a major challenge due to a massive pool of items, a large number of users, and requirements for recommendations to be responsive to user actions and generated on demand in real-time. Here we present Pixie, a scalable graph-based real-time recommender system that we developed and deployed at Pinterest. Given a set of user-specific pins as a query, Pixie selects in real-time from billions of possible pins those that are most related to the query. To generate recommendations, we develop Pixie Random Walk algorithm that utilizes the Pinterest object graph of 3 billion nodes and 17 billion edges. Experiments show that recommendations provided by Pixie lead up to 50% higher user engagement when compared to the previous Hadoop-based production system. Furthermore, we develop a graph pruning strategy at that leads to an additional 58% improvement in recommendations. Last, we discuss system aspects of Pixie, where a single server executes 1,200 recommendation requests per second with 60 millisecond latency. Today, systems backed by Pixie contribute to more than 80% of all user engagement on Pinterest.

El objetivo de esta comunicación es presentar una herramienta TIC que facilite el seguimiento y evaluación del  ePortafolio en las Prácticas Externas contempladas (Pérez, 2015), como obligatorias con la implantación del Espacio Europeo de Enseñanza Superior (EEES). La herramienta que proponemos es Pinterest, que se trata de una aplicación informática online que funciona como red social, y almacena en tableros temáticos, creados por los propios usuarios, imágenes (fotografías, infografías, y dibujos entre otras)  a las que se les puede añadir una descripción.

Pinterest es el equivalente digital al clásico tablón de corcho con imágenes seleccionadas por el propio usuario.

Estas imágenes se llaman “pin”, y la acción de compartir estas imágenes se conoce como “pinear”. Los contenidos de esta aplicación están diseñados para interactuar y ser compartidos con otros usuarios.
Pinterest permite seguir temáticas de interés, tablones de usuarios, y usuarios concretos. Este contenido irá apareciendo en orden cronológico en la página principal y a su vez puede ser “pineado” en los tableros personales, teniendo la posibilidad de enriquecer el mismo con descripciones propias.

Nuestra propuesta de uso de Pinterest en las Prácticas Externas tiene una doble finalidad. Por una parte, que  el alumnado documente sus Prácticas creando contenido, a través de imágenes y descripciones, para que pueda ser evaluado posteriormente; y por otra, que ese contenido sea compartido públicamente por esta vía de comunicación para enriquecer al resto de la comunidad universitaria.

De esta forma el alumnado es partícipe en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje, ya que plasma los conocimientos que ya posee con la aplicación práctica de los mismos (Osses, 2008).

Esta plataforma se ha utilizado en una Unidad Didáctica de inglés nivel B2 en la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Málaga.
El objetivo de la Unidad Didáctica era el uso de Pinterest como manera de agrupar a través de tableros temáticos los contenidos que se trataban y una reflexión sobre lo aprendido en clase. De esta manera serviría a los alumnos como plataforma de entrega de tareas, resumen de contenidos y eportfolio de reflexión (Martínez, 2012).

In 2015, the Undergraduate Library (UGL) of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a public research university home to one of the biggest research libraries in the country, which focuses on undergraduate students, began an unusual campaign....With a goal to promote their library services, this team planned to use more humor, with a “cat librarian” named Carver becoming the library’s “star”...

To learn about pediatric vaccine decision-making, we surveyed and interviewed US parents with at least one child kindergarten age or younger (N=53). Through an anthropologically informed content analysis, we found that fully vaccinating parents (n=33) mostly saw vaccination as routine. In contrast, selective and non-vaccinating parents (n=20) exhibited the kind of self-informed engagement that the healthcare system recommends. Selective vaccinators also expressed multiple, sometimes contradictory positions on vaccination that were keyed to individual children’s biologies, child size, environmental hazards, specific diseases, and discrete vaccines. Rather than logical progressions, viewpoints were presented as assembled collections, reflecting contemporary information filtering and curation practices and the prevalence of collectively experienced and constructed digital “hive” narratives. Findings confirm the need for a non-categorical approach to intervention that accommodates the fluid, polyvalent nature of vaccine reasoning and the curatorial view selectively-vaccinating parents take toward information while honoring their efforts at engaged healthcare consumption.

Over the past decade, social media have become an increasingly important component in the ways broadcasters communicate with their audiences. A relative newcomer to that mix is the social network Pinterest, which enables followers to post photos and other types of visuals based on topics of interest A content analysis examined how 85 local television stations are using that social network for promotion and branding. Results showed that, rather than promotion, use of Pinterest primarily revolves around lifestyle content, including postings by stations and interactivity by followers.

This paper first provides a historical overview of Internet use in French and American electoral campaigns. It then studies political practices on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest in the 2012 U.S. and French electoral campaigns. The reasons for the adoption of social networks by campaign teams are discussed and interpreted. Two case studies show the importance of public controversies, of the blurred boundaries between public and private lives as well as of the need for politicians to display grass roots participation in politics.
Keywords: elections, social networks, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest

Toda vez que la implantación del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) es ya una nueva realidad que ha influido en los hábitos de trabajo tanto de los docentes de Historia económica como de nuestros alumnos, hemos de encontrar metodologías que permitan acometer las complicaciones prácticas de una enseñanza basada en la
adquisición de competencias. Dentro de esta filosofía de trabajo presentamos una práctica en torno a la revolución industrial recurriendo a la red social Pinterest, la cual pese a tener una gran implantación en los países anglosajones aún tiene en nuestro territorio una notable potencialidad de crecimiento.
Se trata de una herramienta basada en la máxima “una imagen vale más que mil palabras”. Por eso puede resultar adecuada para transmitir un conocimiento contextualizado a esos alumnos que en ocasiones son incapaces de visualizar elementos tan decisivos para la actividad económica desde una perspectiva histórica como pueden ser: el castillete de una mina, unas vías férreas, el tendido telegráfico o,
en general, paisajes, herramientas y espacios industriales.

Pałasz, M., 2012. Jak prowadzić profil na Pintereście? - case study Muzeum Erotyzmu. Nowy Marketing. Available at: https://nowymarketing.pl/a/346,jak-prowadzic-profil-na-pinterescie-case-study-muzeum-erotyzmu [Udostępniono sierpień 25, 2018].

"Skoro o Sony z 2 500 followersami można mówić jako o Pinterest Rock Star, to i dla konta Muzeum Erotyzmu, które jest obserwowane przez prawie 2 000 osób można śmiało przedstawiać case study ;)"

This article will give an overview of my Pinterest project, outlining a rationale for using social bookmarking sites and specifically Pinterest. It will then outline the aims of my practice, linking to research and implementation by other educators, before describing the boards I have set up with visuals and finally evaluating its impact and looking forward to future possibilities for research.

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Today, technology is advancing very quickly. While the speed of development and dissemination of technological tools occurred in the form of centuries in the previous periods, it has become possible to express this with decades or even years. The most prominent examples of this are social media tools. In particular, it is possible to
say that social media tools such as facebook, twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram are spreading at an incredible speed and reaching millions or even billions of users in brief periods. The social media has always been discussed in the context of
the balance of benefit and harm. This study aims to determine the benefits of the effective use of the four commonly used social media tools mentioned above. This study is a review, and it has been reached with the content analysis of
the studies in the literature. With the content analysis, results were given in three different themes. These themes are likely benefits of these four social media tools to the preschool teacher, and the preschool classroom environment. Within the scope of this study, since the primary purpose of the study is not determining the possible harm caused by these four social media tools, it was mentioned limited. The study is considered to be particularly beneficial to preschool teachers and prospective teachers and will guide the effective use of these four social media tools in
preschool educational settings.

Docentes: Rita Espanha e Fausto Colombo Mestrado em Comunicação, Cultura e Tecnologias de Informação RESUMO O advento da internet aliado à avalanche tecnológica trouxe consigo diversas categorizações de gerações mediante a domesticação dos media e o tipo de interface tecnológica utilizada. A construção da identidade destas gerações está em tudo relacionada com os media, sendo que estes são a principal ferramenta que salienta o habitus, conceito que fora contemplado nos estudos sociológicos de Pierre Bourdieu. O discurso geracional pré-internet "os bons velhos tempos" parece demonstrar nostalgia quando os baby boomers se deparam com um momento proliferado de ecrãs e nativos digitais, onde possuir as mais recentes tecnologias parece ser a prioridade da esmagadora maioria das pessoas. O efeito nostalgia é utilizado pelos velhos e novos media que protagonizam assim conteúdos que despertam a memória colectiva dos consumidores. Esse efeito é também sentido pela geração milénio, uma nostalgia diferente que será abordada neste ensaio. Para além disso, falar-se-à do emprego da nostalgia pelo Marketing, enquanto estratégia propositada que visa aumentar o consumo com conteúdos caracterizantes dos tempos de infância/adolescência dos próprios.

Teaching and learning problem Students routinely use social media. How, then, can they develop the skills to enable themselves to use social platforms like as Pinterest to help them search more judiciously to create and curate useful resources?

This session will cover:

• Social media as a common language both inside and outside the classroom;
• Key platforms for learning: Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook;
• Applications in EAP and ESP;
• Using your online presence for professional development;
• Privacy priorities and copyright considerations.

The everyday use of smartphones with high quality built-in cameras has lead to an increase in museum visitors’ use of these devices to document and share their museum experi- ences. In this paper, we investigate how one particular pho- to sharing application, Instagram, is used to communicate visitors’ experiences while visiting a museum of natural history. Based on an analysis of 222 instagrams created in the museum, as well as 14 interviews with the visitors who created them, we unpack the compositional resources and concerns contributing to the creation of instagrams in this particular context. By re-categorizing and re-configuring the museum environment, instagrammers work to construct their own narratives from their visits. These findings are then used to discuss what emerging multimedia practices imply for the visitors’ engagement with and documentation of museum exhibits. Drawing upon these practices, we sug- gest ways to reconnect the online social media dialogue with the museum site.

La irrupcion de las nuevas tecnologias en el marco academico ha permitido incorporar en los ultimos anos toda una serie de recursos de Internet en las aulas universitarias, profundizando de manera dinamica y colaborativa en los contenidos expuestos en clase. Entre esos recursos informaticos, plataformas online y aplicaciones para moviles o tablets, las redes sociales son una de las herramientas mas populares entre un alumnado acostumbrado a desenvolverse con destreza en las mismas. Pinterest, desde su puesta en marcha en 2010, destaca en este panorama como una de las alternativas mas interesantes por estar basada por completo en la seleccion de imagenes en tableros, prestando una atencion a lo visual mucho mayor que el resto de redes. Este “coleccionismo de imagenes” posee una utilidad incuestionable en el ambito academico, motivo por el cual el equipo de profesores y profesoras que integran el Proyecto de Innovacion Docente Pinterest como instrumento de aprendizaje de la Historia d...