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Beautiful Curation: Pinterest and Flickr in Canvas

Name: Beautiful Curation: Pinterest and Flickr in Canvas
Start: Jun 29, 2017 7:00:00 PM
End: Jun 29, 2017 7:20:00 PM
Location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrCSlxmsrbg

Created by Laura Gibbs on Mar 26, 2017

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Thursday, June 29, 2017 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrCSlxmsrbg

Starts at 1:00 PM · Ends at 1:20 PM, MST (America/Denver)

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This demo will show you how to curate image collections with both Flickr and Pinterest, and then how to share the albums you create in Canvas. Pinterest is also popular with students, so I will include tips about how you can use to help students learn how to use Pinterest as a serious educational research tool.

Contact Laura Gibbs in advance of the event with any questions or special requests.

Objectives

Demo agenda:

Learn how to create Flickr albums and embed them in Canvas.
Ditto for Pinterest Boards.
Help your students learn how to use Pinterest as a research tool.

Additional Resources

You can see albums in Canvas here for both Flickr and Pinterest.
And, yes, the Growth Mindset Cats have a Flickr album and a Pinterest Board too.
The event will be recorded and shared, along with the slidedeck

This is the seventh in a series of Connected Learning with Cats CanvasLIVE presentations. For more cats and other curiosities, see my blog, Teaching with Canvas.

And the Latin LOLCats have a Pinterest Board too! :-)

Featured Guest

Laura Gibbs
Online Instructor at Univ. of Oklahoma / Arts & Sciences
Happily teaching online at the University of Oklahoma since 2002.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrCSlxmsrbg

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Zoey-Luella Mitronis Mar 27, 2017 10:36 AM
This would be great Zoey-Luella Mitronis
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Laura Gibbs Jun 26, 2017 5:27 PM
Hi, everybody! Per usual I have posted the slides with my notes so that the materials are available regardless of whether the Thursday afternoon time is convenient or not. The slidedeck can also be useful if people are watching the CanvasLIVE in real time because most of the slides have links you can explore that will take you to the actual tools so you can see how it all works, and there are also some notes for the slides here also... and you'll see I've added in Diigo and Padlet to get a better range of tools, in addition to Flickr and Pinterest! :-)
CanvasLIVE: Flickr Pinterest Diigo Padlet

(I just wish we could embed slidedecks here in Jive so I could post the deck here instead of my other blog...!)
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- Stacy LAMBERT @ Laura Gibbs on Jun 29, 2017 6:33 AM
  Thanks Laura - here the Canvas Live is at 5am Friday morning so will be happy to look at the slidedecks instead. Would love to say I would be up...
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  - Laura Gibbs @ Stacy LAMBERT on Jun 29, 2017 7:38 AM
    SO TRUE about the limitations of synchronous, Stacy LAMBERT! That's exactly why I do the slidedecks with detailed notes... partly to get organized, but also because I know that anything at a fixed time is going to probably be excluding more people than it includes. I'll the video afterwards; that's a great thing about doing it at Google — so easy to embed later.
    I really had fun with this one since, totally by accident, I was working on a new content project right now that I could put into the four different tools for a nice side-by-side comparison as to how each one displays the same content stream. :-)
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Stefanie Sanders Jun 29, 2017 12:01 PM
A reminder: Beautiful Curation: Pinterest and Flickr in Canvas will start one hour from now.
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Robert Weston Jun 29, 2017 2:34 PM
This is the worst of ed tech. Trying to leverage social media tools in instruction, when basic quiz functionality and curation is atrocious. This is just irresponsible. You have taken money from public institutions and have a duty to improve this lms to help us faculty assess, instruct, and inspire our students.
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- Stefanie Sanders @ Robert Weston on Jun 29, 2017 1:03 PM
  Robert, the session is live right now--the link to the livestream on YouTube live is at the top of the page--so I would encourage you to attend the actual session before forming an opinion. I also hope you will follow the exciting progress of our Priority: Quizzes.Next: General Availability project.
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  - Robert Weston @ Stefanie Sanders on Jun 29, 2017 3:05 PM
    You've been singing that song for a couple years now. I will remain loud until I see results.
    
    EDIT: 'Angry' was not appropriate.
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    - Laura Gibbs @ Robert Weston on Jun 29, 2017 2:43 PM
      Robert Weston Stefanie's comment was clearly meant to be helpful; I don't think a loud or angry response is really appropriate when someone is trying to be helpful. And since your frustrations apparently have to do with quizzes, I don't think it really makes sense to complain loudly and angrily here. I have not said anything about Canvas quizzes in my presentation, and I don't ever expect to have anything to say about them. Except maybe just #TTOG. And lo and behold, what is the latest tweet in the #TTOG stream is about: Mark Barnes. He is someone well worth reading on quizzes etc. I'll take it as an auspicious sign that his book just happened to be right there when I went to the hashtag.
      
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      - Robert Weston @ Laura Gibbs on Jun 29, 2017 3:00 PM
        Laura Gibbs I am sure Stefanie was trying to be helpful, but after two years of asking for improvements to quizzes and question banks, I'm done. This is simple, basic functionality any LMS should have. I tear my hair out every time I have to use this system. I waste time, duplicate work, and can't find what I am looking for.
        
        I don't think I'll be getting anyone to sign off on grade-free learning.
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        Laura Gibbs @ Robert Weston on Jun 29, 2017 3:18 PM
        Well, in a choice between tearing out all your hair, and exploring the #TTOG possibilities, it might be worth it to at least give #TTOG a chance while you still have some hair left! :-)
        (I'm not being flippant in a mean way, I promise... and see my other comment about running your own Moodle install; why not? and then port the questions into the new quizzing system when it finally arrives)
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- Laura Gibbs @ Robert Weston on Jun 29, 2017 1:50 PM
  I didn't see your comment until after the presentation, Robert Weston ... and I'm not quite sure what to say in response (this might need a blog post of its own...), but here are some quick thoughts:
  
  1. I definitely have some other things I would nominate for the the worst of ed tech. But it would be depressing to list them all here. I'll just invoke the awesome Audrey Watters for her commentaries on our self-inflicted tech dystopias.
  
  2. The kind of teaching I do is inspired by connected learning; social media tools are how I build student-to-student networks in my classes (we all blog), and it's also how I connect with the larger education community (as we are doing here).
  
  3. Basic quiz functionality is not of interest to me because I don't use quizzes. I teach writing. Quizzes are irrelevant. Although for those who use quizzes, I know there are new Canvas features on the way (see Stefanie's comment above).
  
  4. Curation is simply ABSENT in Canvas. It's not good or bad; it just doesn't exist. But that's fine with me. I don't want the LMS to be my content curation tool. I want to use real content curation tools, and to teach my students how to use those tools also. I talked about that in the presentation.
  
  5. I have not taken any money from any public institution aside from my salary as an adjunct instructor at the University of Oklahoma. And I'm not paid during the summer at all. I am doing this for fun, not for money.
  
  6. I am trying to improve people's LMS experience by sharing what I've learned over the past year since my school adopted Canvas. It's been a good year; for me, Canvas is a gazillion times better than D2L which we used previously. Canvas allows me to create open, shared spaces like the one I built for this presentation. Not possible with D2L. So, even though I am not a fan of the LMS project in general, I am a fan of Canvas.
  
  7. I'm all about hoping to inspire people (my students first and foremost), but hey, different strokes for different folks. If the kind of work I do is not inspiring to you, I hope you will browse around the community to find some other discussions, blogs, presentations, etc. That's what I like about Canvas Community: from what I can tell, there is room for everybody, including room for LMS-minimalist / social-media-enthusiasts like myself :-)
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  - Robert Weston @ Laura Gibbs on Jun 29, 2017 2:53 PM
    Hi Laura,
    
    This will be the second time I will be responding to your message as Canvas lost the previous. If you post about this exchange on your blog, please share the link.
    
    1. I'll have to read up on her. I too enjoy popping ed tech's bubble occasionally.
    
    2. Do students create separate accounts for your courses? Doesn't this run counter to your expectation of creating an authentic experience? Don't you run into creepy treehouse syndrome?
    
    3. Great, I do. It is my bread an butter as a mathematics instructor, I literally cannot do my job without it.
    
    4. Great, I still need to use Canvas for curation. I can use our online homework system for everything Canvas does (and have), but because other faculty use Canvas, and to ensure there is consistency of the student experience, I need to use Canvas. Would I like my students to be adaptable 21st century students, who can use different online tools? Absolutely. Are some of my community college students food insecure, and can only access the internet from campus or a library? Yes. I have to choose my battles as I live in a system larger than myself. If you have not had to experience making compromises based on your obligations and responsibilities, I don't know what to say.
    
    5. Laura, that comment was directed at Canvas. I would not question a faculty member at another institution.
    
    6. and 7. All that is well and good, and I am glad you have those tools. At the same time, leaving quizzes and quiz banks in the state they are in is irresponsible. This would be like creating climate control features for the people in the front of the car, while the rear passengers don't have seat belts. Having worked as an instructional designer in Moodle, I know what is out there and possible. It feels that Canvas listens to the loudest people in the room, usually those people who use social media on a regular basis, without addressing core functions that have been in other LMSs for decades. Great, 200 people voted for printable rosters that everyone should be able to make in Excel, awesome. What about simple question banks?
    
    I spend hours copying and pasting questions, importing questions into Question Banks, trying to determine which questions are in which bookmarked question bank that I can't edit, all while trying to make sure my students know what they are supposed to. I am sorry you are getting the brunt of this Laura, but the blinking link took me here, and it just felt that Canvas was paying attention to bells and whistles (as all edtech does) and not getting to the simple stuff (as all edtech does).
    
    Best regards,
    
    Robert Weston
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    - Laura Gibbs @ Robert Weston on Jun 29, 2017 3:14 PM
      Thanks for that clarification Robert Weston (esp. re: #5 which I totally misunderstood). Some quick comments back:
      
      1. Audrey is amazing. She does the kind of detailed historical research that most of us don't have time for so that she can give us a sense of the politics, the economics, and the history of ed tech as we know it today.
      
      2. My students choose what blog platform they want to use (I just need it to have RSS feeds for posts and comments; beyond that, it's their choice), and so also with the platform they use if they want to publish their class project as a website separate from their blog (which about half of them do). I've been doing this since literally the last millennium (i.e. since I started teaching in 1999). They can use their names, or not (some use just their initials, or a pseudonym); they can leave the material online after the class is over, or not. I am grateful that almost all of them choose to leave their work online since the archive of past student work is the most valuable resource I have to work with in each new class.
      
      3. I'm trying to start a Connected Learning Group here at Canvas! I hope that will go through, and the advent of Notebowl as a Canvas partner is super-encouraging to me. I am eager to try it out!
      
      4. I can't and don't try to use the LMS for content, and nobody has ever tried to make me do so. Because I have been publishing and sharing everything openly for all the years I've been teaching, I've built up a mountain of content (while LMSes come and go; we've had a homegrown LMS, then WebCt, Blackboard, D2L and now Canvas at my school during that time). All that open content is valuable for me, my students, for everybody. I consider it one of my goals here at Canvas Community to show people how they can use real content curation tools which integrate very nicely with Canvas. That's what today's presentation was about.
      
      5. I misunderstood the pronoun. :-)
      
      6. and 7. I don't really know what to say except that when the LMS has failed to meet my needs, I just find my own solutions using whatever tools I can find. I am impatient; I cannot wait for the LMS to catch up with me. To be honest, I guess if I were in your shoes, I would probably run my own Moodle installation in a Reclaim Hosting space (that's the educator-friendly hosting I use) so that students could do quizzes there in Moodle anonymous for their own learning/feedback, and I would separate the quizzes from the grading in Canvas. As for how to do the actual grading, see my comment about Mark Barnes here earlier in this discussion. :-)
      https://community.canvaslms.com/events/2035-beautiful-curation-pinterest-and-flickr-in-canvas?commentID=88621#comment-88…
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      - Robert Weston @ Laura Gibbs on Jun 29, 2017 3:21 PM
        2. That is awesome!
        
        6. and 7. FERPA compliance at my institution requires a level of security a home-grown Moodle installation would not be able to offer. I am expected to use Canvas and am kind of stuck and frustrated that basic functionality asked for in April of 2015 is in beta.
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        Laura Gibbs @ Robert Weston on Jun 29, 2017 3:35 PM
        I understand how FERPA works. But you can use Moodle as a LEARNING tool for your students, just as they might use a textbook for learning or a YouTube video for learning etc. etc. etc.. FERPA is about grading and about identity, and does not apply to taking quizzes anonymously for their own edification.
        
        Quizzes are (or should be...) both for learning and for grading; you could still offer your students a learning experience at your own Moodle installation without it being a graded activity.
        
        One of my biggest complaints about LMS culture in general is that it is grade-obsessed.
        
        I would prefer to be learning-obsessed. :-)
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        Stefanie Sanders @ Laura Gibbs on Jun 30, 2017 8:52 AM
        Laura and Robert, and anyone else following this conversation, this is the exact kind of dialog we love to foster in our Community! Laura has graciously written a blog post summing up the discussion thus far, and I would encourage all interested parties to direct additional comments to Canvas, Domains, and Choices: LOTS of Choices
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        Laura Gibbs @ Stefanie Sanders on Jun 30, 2017 9:08 AM
        I am so glad that blog ended up making sense: trying to knit together two totally different conversations required three cups of coffee ha ha. But It worked I think. And the Twitter convo going on right now is AMAZING. :-)
        See Maha's Twitter if you are curious; lots of jumping-in points there:
        ℳąhą Bąℓi مها بالي (@Bali_Maha) | Twitter
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Tammy Esteves Jun 29, 2017 1:26 PM
Thank you, @LauraGibbs. This is a great way to organize course resources and materials to bring the course lessons alive.
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- Laura Gibbs @ Tammy Esteves on Jun 29, 2017 1:52 PM
  I am glad you liked it, Tammy Esteves! I really like these live content streams, and my students get excited about that too. They have their own blogs, so they can use these same strategies to embed a Pinterest Board or a YouTube playlist etc. etc. in their own blog sidebars. All the things I do in Canvas like this are the same kinds of things I'm helping my students to do in their own blog spaces: tools that can publish content across multiple spaces are my favorites! :-)
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  - Tammy Esteves @ Laura Gibbs on Jun 29, 2017 5:45 PM
    We are in the process of switching from Blackboard to Canvas, and I have been concerned about the linearity of so much text, so I am looking forward to developing one of these options for all my course resources.
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    - Laura Gibbs @ Tammy Esteves on Jun 29, 2017 6:09 PM
      That is my feeling also, Tammy Esteves! Images are really important for connecting with my students (I teach fully online, so the web space IS our classroom...), and the image management tools in Canvas are not very good ... but there are so many tools that can help you to manage images and then make them available also for sharing in Canvas.
      You might also be interested in this CanvasLIVE I did about my daily announcements which are full of images and links, etc.; I use the blog as my actual Canvas homepage as you can see here India.MythFolklore.net
      Here's the CanvasLIVE about that:
      Blog-as-Homepage CanvasLIVE Slides – Teaching with Canvas
      It's also so much fun to encourage your students to use images also, to create their own memes to share, etc. etc. One of the best things about working online I think is being able to make good use of images and video in a way that is not always easy in a physical classroom. :-)
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Stefanie Sanders Jun 29, 2017 1:34 PM
During the live stream I mentioned a nifty--and simple--way to use your Chrome browser to test content across various mobile devices. I got this tip from Mark Garcia, who wrote it up here: Verifying Mobile Friendly Web Content
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Stefanie Sanders Jun 29, 2017 1:36 PM
Special recognition goes out to Laura Gibbs Thank You for leading this event. Laura has received + 50 points for setting up and facilitating this great session!

For more on how YOU can host a CanvasLIVE event, check out How do I set up a CanvasLIVE event? or join the Community User Group: CanvasLIVE!
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Bobby Pedersen Jun 29, 2017 1:38 PM
Laura Gibbs you are a star. Many thanks for your well organised presentation. I will be watching it again!
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- Laura Gibbs @ Bobby Pedersen on Jun 29, 2017 1:54 PM
  I hope you have fun poking around in the StoryLab.LauraGibbs.net space. It's fun for me, because I'm working on that India project a little bit every day this summer, so that means there will automatically be new pictures and new stories showing up there day by day by day, so that I will have a big, beautiful heap of stories to share with my Indian Epics students next year. :-)
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Laura Gibbs Jun 29, 2017 1:38 PM
Thanks for the questions in the chat afterwards, everybody!

Re: the step by step for Flickr albums in Canvas, here's what I use:
Flickr Albums in Canvas
As you can see, it's a two-step thing: you copy-and-paste the javascript from Flickr in a simple text file with a .html suffix to upload as a File, and then you can copy-and-paste the HTML snippet I have there, substituting your Canvas address and file and user ID. I hope that makes sense, and if you have any questions, just let me know! (with big thanks as always to James Jones and Sharmaine Regisford who showed me how to get javascripts to work in Canvas).
If you don't already have a text editor you use to create an .HTML file, there is a really handy browser-based option here:
https://www.editpad.org/

And there are more links here to step by step for PInterest, Diigo-Inoreader, etc. in the notes to the slidedeck here:
CanvasLIVE: Flickr Pinterest Diigo Padlet – Teaching with Canvas
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Stefanie Sanders Jun 29, 2017 1:42 PM
The recording of the session is available at Beautiful Curation: Pinterest and Flickr in Canvas
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- Laura Gibbs @ Stefanie Sanders on Jun 29, 2017 1:55 PM
  Thanks again, Stefanie Sanders, and thanks again for encouraging me to do these CanvasLIVE presentations, which were a total first-time-thing for me; until now, I never did anything synchronous. You made this really fun and stress-free, and I will be excited to start up with more demos when August rolls around. :-)
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biray@instructure.com Jul 3, 2017 10:56 AM
Be sure to watch the entire "Connected Learning with Cats" series, hosted and developed by Laura Gibbs to claim the badge (below).

Go to your PROFILE > REWARDS > scroll and click "Available Quests" tab to learn more about completing this quest!
(What is the Canvas Community Reward System?)
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Laura Gibbs Jul 4, 2017 8:39 AM
I also made a kind of personal challenge to go with the official Quest... details here:
Connected-Learning-with-Cats Maker Challenge :-)
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Tammy Esteves Jul 10, 2017 4:45 PM
Have you worked on integrating a feed from a LinkedIn group?
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- Laura Gibbs @ Tammy Esteves on Jul 10, 2017 4:50 PM
  Oooooh, that is such a great question! I don't use LinkedIn, so I don't really know how that works. Is it an RSS feed? The way I am using Diigo via RSS and blogs via RSS would work:
  Blog Labels + Inoreader + Redirect Tool = Canvas Magic!
  My Favorite Features about Diigo and Canvas
  Inoreader is an all-purpose RSS feed reader (so in that sense it is like Feedly), but it also has amazing syndication powers so that you can mix-and-match incoming content and then send it back out again with a very nice HTML display in Canvas.
  Some examples here from my current summer projects:
  Story Lab Homepage: StoryLab
  You can see the Indian fables I was working on last night there, delivered via Diigo's RSS feed.
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