With the Internet being so HUGE these days educators have to become master curators of content. A Learnist Board is a really useful way to curate and keep a record of the information that you need. I love using Diigo, Pinterest and Scoopit for curation purposes, but Learnist has its own unique properties that sets it apart as a useful way of collecting the sites you want to keep.

1. Let’s create a Learnist Board
By Fiona Beal
fiona@schoolnet.org.za

2. What is a Learnist Board?
Learnist (http://learni.st) is a free
media and resource sharing site that
is an extremely useful tool for
teachers and students to curate a
number of relevant sites relating to a
topic.
Learnist is also available as an iPad
app and an Android app

3. Let’s take a look at some
Learnist Boards

4. A Grade 1 teacher on Learnist
http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cI1irdVvNX

5. What I like about a Learnist Board
• A neatly set out dashboard showing
all the sites created by a particular
person.
• Categorisation of the sites
• One long column for easier viewing
• One can set it out in steps
numerically. This is quite important
for some collections.
• One can add a selection of different
kinds of sites – videos etc,

6. Two of my boards
• Great ideas about creating presentations using PowerPoint
• Ipad Summit posts, Boston 2012

7. Let’s create a Learnist Board

8. 1. Join Learnist and sign in

10. 2. Choose some topicsI chose
‘Education’
and
‘Technology’

11. 3. Verify your email address

12. 4. Set up your profile

13. 5. Create a new boardClick on Add

14. Select create a new board

15. How I created a board!
(An example)

16. One of my boards

17. a) Choose a cover image

18. Use for
cover image

20. Add some words about what you have added
Add some
words

21. b) For the next bock add a link of your choice

22. c) Add the web address of your link

23. d) And so you continue…

24. Benefits of using a Learnist Board
• Keeps all resources together in a
particular order
• It is accessible from wherever one is
• One can share a board with others
• One can follow others with similar
interests
• Students could also use Learnist for a
project to show the sites they used
• Is available as an iPad and an Android
app

25. Further reading
1) 10 Ways To Use Learnist In The Classroom
http://www.edudemic.com/10-ways-to-use-learnist-in-the-
classroom/
2) My ten favourite Learnist boards built by teachers
http://www.edudemic.com/top-10-learnist-boards-teachers/
3) Getting Started Using Learnist In The Classroom
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/getting-started-using-
learnist-in-the-classroom/
4) Why I Love and Use Learnist (and Why You Should Too)
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2013/02/why-i-love-and-use-
learnist-and-why-you-should-too/

26. Visit me on Learnist…
Take a look at http://learni.st/users/36830
to see how I have started and then
explore all the amazing boards from
various educators on Learnist.

27. Thank you!
This recording and presentation will be
placed on the SchoolNet blog tomorrow
http://schoolnetsa.blogspot.com