“I have been a teacher my whole life,” Neal Menschel professes. “As a seasoned photojournalist, I’m thrilled to give back what I’ve gained by teaching it to people in the community.”

From teaching in a native fishing village in Alaska to leading photography at the SALT Institute for Documentary Studies, Menschel’s teaching experiences run the gamut. He’s now at Stanford University, where he teaches a course on environmental portraiture in the Continuing Studies Program.

With students ranging from “doctors to engineers to emerging creatives,” Menschel finds that Lore is an especially powerful way to stay in touch with his adult-age students when they’re not in the classroom.

“Because I only have one class a week, people go back to their everyday lives – so I try to post on [Lore] often enough to keep my students connected and thinking about photography and their work. There are so many visuals you could put on there. You could teach a class with [Lore].”

“I’m not a big social media person,” Menschel continues. “I found Facebook ate up so much of my time that I didn’t do anything on it anymore. [Lore], on the other hand, is what I would call a simplified Facebook for academics – exceptionally valuable, and it’s really easy to use. I love it.”

* This is not a university endorsement.