Our presentation would have gone about eight times smoother if we had downloaded our slides before the presentation. Additionally, there had to have been a way to execute the project so that we could have done it completely within Pinterest. These things could have been done if there had been a little more foresight on our behalf.
Our major challenge was finding peer reviewed sources for anything besides the positive/negative effects of pinterest. Even its history had to be pulled from non-academic sources. Even the sources we found that usually would have been considered reliable were oddly unofficial. The Forbes article was written based on an oral presentation given by the founder, but I could not find the presentation itself anywhere. Though now that I think about it, I never even tried to look for a transcript, so maybe this was within our control.
One of the things that were cool about presenting pinterest is that all of our sources were linked on our pinboards. We could "make" pins and add the links. Pinterest also allowed us to organize things by category for our presentation which was nice, as well. If only we could put the things in each category in better order!
Of the other presentations, I really thought the Instagram groups was cleverly executed as it was all contained within instagram. I felt their examples were relevant and interesting. The YouTube group had a LOT of information, but I personally didn't like how everything was in videos. Like the concept was neat, but I can watch videos anywhere. The twitter was nicely executed, I just wished that there had been more information, less repetition words, if that makes sense? Like I would be listening, then reading and I would be reading essentially the same thing. I like lots of pictures, not so much words, haha!
Anyway, this class was indeed FAR less horrible than my last honors seminar!! In fact I enjoyed it. I felt like the workload was a bit much, with all three posts in addition to whatever prep work we had, but I don't feel like I was necessarily wasting my time.
Best of luck!! :)
