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What is Pinterest
Pinterest in essence a visual pin board. Users use Pinterest to visually share and discover new interests by pinning. Pinterest is solely centred around images and videos and these items can be collected together by users to create their own boards.
Why use Pinterest
Here are some of the reasons you might use Pinterest in education:
- Compile content
- Organise and store ideas
- Connect and comment on students' work
- Start a professional learning network
- Make contact with other teachers
- Create group projects
The Language of Pinterest
Pin and RePin
A pin is an image that you have captured and added to a board. A RePin is the act of sharing someone’s pin to one of your boards.
Board
Boards are content buckets of similar content. You can capture content and add it to these boards where they become easily shareable.
Comments and Likes
Comments and Likes are similar to Facebook, Pinterest allows you to like someone’s pin or leave a comment on the pin.
How to get started
1. Go over to https://au.pinterest.com/
2. Sign up using your email address.
3. Pick 5 topics to follow. Some suggestions:
- Education
- Educational Technology
- Digital Citizenship
- Teaching Ideas
- Any other interests you might have
4. Get the Pin It button for your browser.
5. You're all set to get pinning.
What to do now?
Follow some Pinners
See below for some examples of educational leaders to follow and pin ideas from.
Create your first board
Make your first board and call it light the way sensei.
Pin some images
Pin some images to your new board about your current journey and ideas surrounding social media in education.