Using

In Your Classroom

By: Lindsay LittleGordon College

EDU 614 Revised by K,K, & K

Who Uses Pinterest??

50% of Users have children Men vs Women

Average Time Spent on Pinterest

What is ?

Pinterest Home Page

• Visual Bookmarking tool

• Create boards related to your interests

• Collect resources and organize them using pin boards

• Share and collaborate by creating community boards

How Educators Useo Collaborate

Teacher to teacher Teacher to student Student to student

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into boards Accrue visuals & videos for presentations Resources from other teacher boards Store resources in one place Prompt online discussion Build reference boards

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• Explain the home page• View Pin Boards

• Privacy Settings • Searching for resources in the site• Create a new board

TERMS OF SERVICE

COPY RIGHT

“Pinterest values and respects the rights of third party creators and content owners, and expects you to do the same. You therefore agree that any user content that you post to the service does not and will not violate any law or infringe the rights of any third party, including without limitation any Intellectual Property Rights, publicity rights or rights of privacy. We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to remove User Content from the Service for any reason, including Content that we believe violates these Terms or the Pinterest Acceptable Use Policy. We therefore ask that you please be careful when deciding whether to make User Content available on our Service” (Pinterest, Terms of Service, para dii).

To avoid copy right infringement, some websites and its media (like Flickr) may not be “pinnable” because a “nopin” HTML tag released in February 2012 (wikipedia, pinterest).

What is Appropriate to ?

WHAT TO PIN WHAT NOT TO PIN

Other members of Pinterest.

People who have a Pinterest button on their site

Artists who use Creative Commons

People with an online Etsy shop.

List credit in the caption to link back to the original site.

Artists who have marked “all rights reserved”

People who have not indicated copyright use

People who license their images to publishers or manufacturers

Anonymous tumblr or blog images are usually neither licensed or credited.

Lori Mcnee, 2012, How to use pinterest and still respect copyrights.

Pinning it all Together… Pinterest is a popular way to share, collect,

and collaborate with other people • PROS

• Collaboration• Collection• Organization

• CONS• Cannot pin all media• Creating a twitter/facebook account to join• Others can automatically re-pin your

content• Why I would use Pinterest in my classroom

• my 1st day, I had 100 re-pins of my material• connecting with teachers all over the world• organizing my content visually

How I felt about Pinterest when I first joined…

How Do I Get Started?

There are two ways to join Pinterest:

Go to www.pinterest.com

• Log in through your Facebook Account/Twitter

• Or log in using your email address and create a password

Joining PinterestWhen you join: • Pinterest automatically asks what you’re interested in• After clicking some interests, Pinterest

suggests followers that suit you• Install “Pin It” Button in Bookmark Bar

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from http://www.whitehalljournal.com/lifestyle/x1986335783/What-is-PinterestAaron, Morrison. (2011, September). Four ways to use pinterest in education. Pearson

Education Inc. Retrieved from http://www.pearsonschoolsystems.com/blog/?p=424#

Best Colleges Online (2012, January). 30 Inspiring Pinterest Pins for Teachers. Retrieved from http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2012/01/02/30-inspiring-pinterest-pins-for-teachers/Greg Boser. (2012). Everything you need to know about pinterst. BlueGlass Inc. Retrieved from http://www.blueglass.com/articles/ultimate-guide-to-pinterest/Denny Carter. (2012, March 14). Ignoring pinterest in 2012 could make colleges look

‘old and stodgy’: Social media experts are finding ways to use the picture-based social network, but many schools haven’t embraced the site. ecampusnews.com. Retrieved from http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/ignoring-pinterest-in-2012- could-make-colleges-look-old-and-stodgy/Copyright and Trademark. (2012, April). Pinterest. Retrieved from http://pinterest.com/

about/copyright/ Jeff Dunn. (2012, March 23). The teacher’s quick guide to pinterest. [web log comment].

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ReferencesJeff Dunn. (2012, February 29). The reason I just deleted my pinterest account. [web

log comment]. Retrieved from http://edudemic.com/2012/02/pinterest-delete/Jeff Dunn. (2012, March 13). 20 Ways Libraries are using pinterest right now. [web

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curation. PBS. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2012/03/how-educators-are-using-pinterest-for-showcasing-curation080.html

Terry Heick. (2010, February 13). 5 tipis for using pinterest in your classroom. Edudemic. [web log comment]. Retrieved from http://edudemic.com/2012/02/5-tips-for-using-pinterest-in-your-classroom/(2012, February 9). Know your internet: What is pinterest and why should I care?

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Let’s Start Pinning!