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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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