30 Days of Web Tools: #10 Use Pinterest as a classroom resource

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCT8h7AQKVwSV4rHqyV_Zs2GUSNml1picXc-VEvZfCXDuGVHbC0nj91jxz9qjIs0ZUNI-Ro_OqcsQIKheBoE6p9aEIopubUHKB0jEcS8oObg-wb8e2kk0_p1mPamTkTQJrf1MSralzrhI/s1600-h/image3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXRssgsIzQ-t4hZ53tbaBZPGCNqpbjIO7nAX3weiZ1nYCzBKW7Oi3dr0YnB9e6aJQKpXuCm6MeoT7ApkLDo8jAhzOejU3-W7-0vIP1EoNIBsVtPVJoTAfxgCj_x-_8Kv3SrRmKaofakMs/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><i>Submitted by Fiona Beal</i><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pinterest is one of those social networking programmes that everybody is talking about. It is one of those applications that you know you are going to have to do something about joining  at some stage! So, when a friend recently invited me to join Pinterest,  I knew the moment of joining and trying out this amazing and popular application had arrived. I made a start by reading Edudemic’s ‘Teacher’s Quick Guide to Pinterest.  <a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/03/the-teachers-quick-guide-to-pinterest/">http://edudemic.com/2012/03/the-teachers-quick-guide-to-pinterest/</a></span><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">What exactly is Pinterest?</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pinterest is another curating tool in the form of a visual pin board that allows you to pin images from blogs and websites so that you can easily refer to them at any stage. Recently Pinterest has added the use of YouTube videos to its features, so now with one click you can get your videos to an already existing collection on your Pinterest wall or on a new one. Pinterest allows you to tweet your pin or share it over Facebook if you chose to link your account with Pinterest. You can also play and watch the videos you include without leaving the website.. It seems that Slideshare and Pinterest have reached an arrangement as well. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Policies</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Earlier this year educators were worried about Pinterest’s privacy policies, but Edudemic recently advised that Pinterest has now corrected “some potentially disastrous mistakes: their </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/about/terms" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Terms of Service</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/about/use" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Acceptable Use Policy</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, and </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/about/privacy" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Privacy Policy</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.”</span><br /><a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/03/why-ill-start-using-pinterest-again-after-april-6th/"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://edudemic.com/2012/03/why-ill-start-using-pinterest-again-after-april-6th/</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>How to create a Pinterest board</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a helpful YouTube video showing how to go about creating a Pinterest board.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QtmmGA0M_yk?rel=0" width="420"></iframe></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I also came across this Slideshare which had a lot of useful information about Pinterest</span><br /><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/krisrocs/pinterest-slideshare"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.slideshare.net/krisrocs/pinterest-slideshare</span></a><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/11689097" style="border-width: 1px 1px 0; border: 1px solid #CCC; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="427"></iframe> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/krisrocs/pinterest-slideshare" target="_blank" title="Pinterest SlideShare">Pinterest SlideShare</a> </b> from <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/krisrocs" target="_blank">Kristie Johnson</a></b> </div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Following others</b></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the features I love about about Pinterest is that you can follow people who have interesting boards. After reading the <i>Teacher’s Quick Guide</i> mentioned above I came across this post called ‘30 inspiring pinterest pins for teachers'.  </span></span><br /><a href="http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2012/01/02/30-inspiring-pinterest-pins-for-teachers/"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2012/01/02/30-inspiring-pinterest-pins-for-teachers/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This seemed to be a good place to follow others. </span><br /><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">How can Pinterest be used in the classroom?</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Educational technology experts have started digging into pinterest's educational potential and quite a number of articles have been written on this topic so far.<br /><a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/06/3-ways-to-use-pinterest-for-education/">http://edudemic.com/2012/06/3-ways-to-use-pinterest-for-education/</a></span><br /><h5 style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">1. Add subject specific images to use in an assignment or a class discussion</span></h5><h5 style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">2. Find crafts and projects for school</span></h5><h5 style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">3. Get lunch ideas for kids</span></h5><h5 style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">4. Use it to pin infographics</span></h5><h5 style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">5. Find new books to read and recommend</span></h5><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">6. Summarise a conference or event</span><br /><a href="http://pinterest.com/coolcatteacher/iste12/"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://pinterest.com/coolcatteacher/iste12/</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7. Keep a record of your lesson plans</span><br /><a href="http://pinterest.com/techchef4u/ipad-lessons/"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://pinterest.com/techchef4u/ipad-lessons/</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. Homeschoolers have found a great number of ways to use Pinterest</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Here are 30 of their ideas. <a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/02/homeschool-pinterest/">http://edudemic.com/2012/02/homeschool-pinterest/</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9. Pinterest is a great tool for librarians.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/03/20-ways-libraries-are-using-pinterest-right-now/">http://edudemic.com/2012/03/20-ways-libraries-are-using-pinterest-right-now/</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My Pinterest boards</span></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have started four pinboards to date:</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a) Places to find lesson plans</span></span></span></span><br /><a href="http://pinterest.com/fibeal/places-to-find-lesson-plans/" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://pinterest.com/fibeal/places-to-find-lesson-plans/</a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmT01j8KWbQtA0Q25Xazg0X2FsRzy3_Xk2CcyYR9lqeiNVgURH9WNj20EEOC42TcdnJIIjsNDcRWkXJV0-iZu8kxKYqc5Ftw3Q7Lq9hX3IS5YQmMrh1v8a5ce5eA4peCYHJogGqDowavU/s1600/pinboard1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmT01j8KWbQtA0Q25Xazg0X2FsRzy3_Xk2CcyYR9lqeiNVgURH9WNj20EEOC42TcdnJIIjsNDcRWkXJV0-iZu8kxKYqc5Ftw3Q7Lq9hX3IS5YQmMrh1v8a5ce5eA4peCYHJogGqDowavU/s400/pinboard1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> b) ESL Language Learning Resources</span><br /><a href="http://pinterest.com/fibeal/esl-language-learning-resources/" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://pinterest.com/fibeal/esl-language-learning-resources/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">c) My favourite blogs (still in the early stages)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />d) Our e-books (still in the early stages)</span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Further reading</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />a) <a href="http://www.pearsonschoolsystems.com/blog/?p=424">Four ways to use Pinterest in Education</a><br />b)<span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_691851881">A LiveBinder called </a><i><a href="http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=271703">Pinterest for Education:</a></i></span><br />c) <a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/06/pinterest-resources-for-educators.html">Pinterest resources for teachers from Cool Cat Teacher Blog</a> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">d) <a href="http://pinterest.com/Palmy/teaching-history/">Teaching history</a>:<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">e) <a href="http://teachinghistory.org/digital-classroom/tech-for-teachers/25660">Social pinboards</a>: </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">f) <a href="http://pinterest.com/ggcoe/middle-ages/">Middle Ages pinboard </a></span></div><br /><br /><br /></div>

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