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Pinterest Teachersfor
There’s No Sinning in Pinning:Using Pinterest in the Classroom
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 educational
material for use in their classrooms.pin
board
How to setup an account:
1. Go to :
www.Pinterest.com
2. Sign Up with Facebook
or e-mail
Next:
3. Type in the required
fields
4. Sign up
Pinterest is user-friendly
This is a screen shot of my personal Pinterest home page.
• Currently, I have 2 educational
boards (Constitution Day and
Pinterest for teachers).
• The Pinterest site is user-
friendly. Here is a Cheat Sheet
with some Tips &Tricks!
Cheat Sheet
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.
Adding Pins to boards
1. 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.
2. Or, Click Pins, Boards, or People.
3. Or, Click Pinners you follow.
4. Or, Browse Pinterest’s home page and click the Repin button on the image.
5. 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.
6. Or, Click Add+, click on Upload a Pin and click choose file.
There are several ways to add pins to a board:
Follow boards or people
1. On your home page, click on the following button in the upper right-hand corner.
2. The people you are following will appear.
3. If you no longer want to follow someone, click on the Unfollow button on their pinboard page.
4. 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.
You can choose which boards, people you are following.
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
• YouTube videos
• Graphic organizers
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
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
Pinning YouTube videos
How to pin a YouTube video:1. Enter what you are searching for in the search field.
2. Click the Pin it button when you locate the YouTube video you want to add to your pinboard.
3. Your YouTube video will play automatically when you click on its pinboard.
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/fol
dables-graphic-organizer-
examples.html
Classroom Literature
Examples of using pinboards to share children’s literature.You could create a pinboard for Newbery or Caldecott award books.
Additional Resources
Attached is a list of pinners 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
Your Task:
1. Identify an upcoming SE in your classroom.
2. Search for activities that address that SE and pin them to your board.
3. At our next Pinterest session, Pinning Party, please be prepared to share two of the pins you used in class.
4. Here are some examples:Math- (Geometry) 5.7.A identify essential attributes
including parallel, perpendicular, and congruent parts of two‐ and three dimensional geometric figures.
Social Studies- (Government) 8.21.A identify different points of view of political parties and interest groups on important historical and contemporary issues.
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