While utilizing social media in an online learning environment can potentially be fraught with peril; I have found Pintrest to be a wonderful social media tool. As a design teacher, being able to collaborate with students on idea/mood boards for projects is extremely beneficial. I am able to show lots of samples and examples, post visual links to resources, and even encourage students to create their own boards. You can also share boards, which allows everyone to contribute, creating wonderful collaboration in my online classes. While my VC offers discussion boards and course galleries… there are some limitations to that for collaborative visual brainstorming. Pintrest is highly user-friendly, highly visual (which is again great for design students) and allows excellent options for what I can present to my students.