Pinterest for Teachers
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Pinterest is an online pinboard that allows users to organize and share interests. Teachers are using Pinterest to gather and organize educational materials for their classrooms. The document provides instructions on setting up an account and boards, adding pins, following other boards and people, and examples of what teachers are pinning, including lesson plans, assessments, websites, videos, and professional development resources. It concludes with rules for using Pinterest respectfully and sources for finding other educators on the site.
Pinterest for Teachers
- 1. for Pinterest Teachers INST 5220 - University of Central Missouri Presented by Karen Richardson Retrieved 4/8/12 from http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/ picasso-style-superheroes
- 2. What is Pinterest? Pinterest is an online pinboard that allows its users to organize and share their interests. Teachers are utilizing Pinterest as a valuable tool for gathering and organizing a pin superabundance of educational material for use in their classrooms. board
- 3. How to setup an account Setting up an account. You need an invite to activate an account with Pinterest. • Request an invite via www. Pinterest.com or • Request an invite via your Facebook account. • Ask a friend with a Pinterest account to send you an invite (this is the quickest method). • Invite your friends to join Pinterest by clicking on the arrow next to your name in the upper right-hand corner, and then pull down to invite friends.
- 4. Pinterest is user-friendly This is a screen shot of my personal Pinterest home page. • Currently, I have 19 boards in alphabetical order, consisting of 258 total pins. • The Pinterest site is user- friendly. Nearly everything you need to know about managing your site can be found by clicking on the buttons located on your home page.
- 5. Editing a Pinterest profile Your personal profile is important. Others can see your profile at the top of your Pinterest page; share something about yourself. • On your Pinterest home page, click the arrow next to your name and pull down to the Settings link. • Write something about yourself in the About field • You can upload an image, too. • Additional information found on the Settings page includes your Web site, gender, location, and options to link your account to Facebook and/or Twitter.
- 6. Create a new Board When your account is activated, new boards will automatically be created for you, but you can add more. • Click on the Add + button located in the upper right-hand corner of your homepage. • Click on Create a Board. Title your board in the Board Name field. For example, “Art activities”. • Choose a Board Category so other teachers can locate your pinboards. • In the Who can pin field, select Just Me. For a shared account select Me + Contributors. Click the red Create Board button.
- 7. Adding Pins to boards There are several ways to add pins to a board: • In the Search field, enter what you are looking for and click the magnifying glass. For example, type web 2.0 in the search field and browse through the images that appear. • Or, Click Pins, Boards, or People. • Or, Click Pinners you follow. • Or, Browse Pinterest’s home page and click the Repin button on the image. • Or, Click the Add + button located in the upper right-hand of your page. Click on Add a Pin and enter the URL of the Web site and click on Find Images. • Or, Click Add+, click on Upload a Pin and click choose file.
- 8. Re-arrange your boards You can alphabetize or categorize your boards. On your home page, adjacent to the Edit Profile button is a box with arrows on the sides. Click on this box and you will see the option to Rearrange Boards. A check symbol will activate. Now you can click on a board and drag it to where you want it. I put my boards in alphabetical order.
- 9. Edit cover of a board You can assign a pin as a cover for a board. • To change the cover of • Another window opens, allowing you to select another your board, hover over cover photo and drag to position it. Click on the left or right arrows to select your new cover photo and then the current cover image click on the red Set Cover button. and click on the edit board cover button.
- 10. Follow boards or people You can choose which boards, people you are following. • On your home page, click on the following button in the upper right-hand corner. • The people you are following will appear. • If you no longer want to follow someone, click on the Unfollow button on their pinboard page. • If you want to choose which boards you do or do not want to follow for this person, click on their name or photo and begin clicking unfollow on the boards you no longer wish to follow.
- 11. Teachers are pinning Examples of what teachers are pinning to their boards: (shown are pinboards for Arts Resources, Transforming Education, Literacy Web sites and resources, Technology in Education). Additional ideas include: • Classroom organization & management strategies • Subject-specific lessons • Assessment tools • Inspirational quotes • Web 2.0 tools • YouTube videos • Graphic organizers • Professional Development
- 12. Classroom Organization Example of a pin for classroom organization ideas. This image and a Web link were added to Pinterest by a classroom teacher. Check out the blog at the URL shown below. • 42 people have liked this pin, there have been 249 repins and 3 comments. • Pinterest is a great social platform for teachers, too. Retrieved 4/6/12 from: http://dandelionsdragonflies.blogspot .com/2011/08/finally-my-classroom-reveal.html
- 13. Subject-specific lessons Example of a pin for Reading mini lessons. This particular link includes the following units: • Frontloading • Fix-Up Strategies • Connecting • Visualizing • Questioning • Determining Importance • Inferring • Synthesizing If you click on an image in Pinterest, there are also buttons for you to Like it on Facebook, Tweet, or E-mail it to a friend. http://www.jmeacham .com/readers.workshop/readers.workshop.mini.lessons. htm
- 14. Assessment tools Example of a pin for assessment in the classroom. Shown is a self-reflective assessment tool: Select, Describe, Analyze, Appraise, Transform Note that clicking on a pin in Pinterest (top illus.) will open a larger image (bottom illus.). If you then click on the larger image, it will take you to the pin’s Web link. Retrieved 4.6.12 from: http://sites.google .com/site/reflection4learning/teachers/nc -reflection-model
- 15. Inspirational quotes Example of an inspirational pin. Start collecting pins that keep you motivated. • All you have to do is Repin and it attaches to your own pinboard for you to enjoy. • 100 people have Repinned this quote.
- 16. Web 2.0 tools Example of a Web 2.0 pin. You can Repin this Infographic with your Pinterest account. This image serves as a great tool for teachers to connect Bloom’s Taxonomy with Web 2.0 technology. Web 2.0 technology is already paired with the cognitive levels of learning. Retrieved 4.6.12 from http://www.usi.edu/distance/bdt.htm
- 17. YouTube videos You can pin educational YouTube videos. Check out Singapore’s 21st Century Teaching Strategies. These kids are using Smart Phones to collaborate in the classroom, and they are learning in 3D virtual worlds, like Second Life! Retrieved 4/5/12 from: http://www.youtube.com/user/edutopia?v=M_pIK7ghGw4
- 18. Pinning YouTube videos How to pin a YouTube video: • Enter what you are searching for in the search field. • Click the Pin it button when you locate the YouTube video you want to add to your pinboard. • Your YouTube video will play automatically when you click on its pinboard.
- 19. Graphic organizers Example of a graphic organizer pin. This pin demonstrates how to create 3-D foldables. Retrieved 4/10/12 from http://rainbowswithinreach .blogspot.com/2012/03/ foldables -graphic-organizer-examples.html
- 20. Classroom Literature Examples of using pinboards to share children’s literature. You could create a pinboard for Newbery or Caldecott award books.
- 21. Professional Development Example of a professional development pin. Andy Hockley explains the Six Ways to Survive the Crisis through Professional Development Retrieved 4/6/12 from: http://sixthings.net/2010/04/04/ andy-hockleys -six-ways-to-survive-the-crisis-through-professional-development/
- 22. Pinterest rules DO: give credit with a link to where your image was found DO: be respectful DO: create interesting and varied pinboards DO NOT: self-promote yourself or your business DO NOT: spam DO NOT: pin nudity or offensive images
- 23. Resources and a Survey Attached is a list of pinners I located on Pinterest who utilize it for sharing educational pinboards. You can add to this list after you join Pinterest. Please download the following Word document for the list: List of Educators Who Are Pinning Please help me improve my presentations by completing a brief survey. Please click on the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BBJQ6GL