My Pinterest Walkthrough
Pinterest’s purpose and usefulness in the classroom
- The purpose of Pinterest is to let users, i.e. students and teachers, gather resources from around the internet, organize them based on criteria they choose and "pin" them into these categories like digital bulletin boards.
- Teachers can use Pinterest to gather resources and ideas for lessons on a topic they are teaching.
- Teachers can also use Pinterest to gather resources and activities for students to look at or complete as more independently directed work within a lesson they are learning.
- Teachers can also gather online resources as a jumping off point for students when they are starting research so that students are not starting from nowhere when they start looking for information.
- Students can gather information on topics they are learning on, for personal use in their studies, or create resource boards to be shared with peers.
Advantages
- Pinterest is widely used, and often users can find what they are looking for simply by searching Pinterest itself, instead of using other search engines to look for content to pin.
- Pinterest uses pictures to illustrate the pins, so it is often easy to see what you are getting, as well as making it an attractive site to use.
- It is easy to use.
- You can use premade boards, or create boards and categories you choose.
- It is easy to to share pins and boards with others.
- It is image heavy, so slower connections may have a hard time loading content.
- It is widely used, which means spam content will pop up occasionally.
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