As my school's nominated "ICT (almost) native" (I do remember the days of the green screen (just) and the days before texting) and also being a self-confessed computer geek (and proud of it), I am out to find lots of cool new ICT toys and interesting ways to use them.
Here enters, Pintrest.
Pintrest is an online community of pinboarders. It's like having a pinboard in your house only it's online.
You maintain your own boards and you can follow other people's boards to see what they find and pin to their boards.
If you liked what they pinned, you can repin it to your own pinboard for safe keeping until you need it.
If you find an interesting image or idea online, you can pin an image directly to your pinboards and the website maintains a link so that you can go back to it at some point in the future when you have need of the pin.
People use Pinterest to keep ideas for crafts, inspirational quotes, parties, weddings, holidays and home building. Really, you can keep pinboards of whatever you want.
You can follow a person (ie, all the boards they have) or just the one or two boards that match your interests. New pins (posts) from the boards you follow will show up on your home page when you come to Pinterest so you can see what your friends are finding and repin what you love.
What I love most about pinterest is seeing all the cute teaching ideas that people post from their own work or from teacher blogs they follow. I pin things to my pinboards for possible homeschooling in the future, or for teaching my class right now. I also follow pins to their original blog (click on the thumbnail to visit the pin and then click on the picture to visit the original source) to see other ideas from the same blog or resource. I've found a number of great blogs to follow through Pinterest.
To sign up for Pinterest, visit www.pinterest.com and request an invite and follow the prompts on the invite emailed to you. You can sign up using a Facebook or Twitter account but the two only communicate if you tell them to (ie, Pinterest wont publish anything on your Facebook wall without you agreeing to it.)
Use the search box in the top left corner to find me, Caz Aldridge, and my education pinboard, Coolest Class In Town.
Happy pinning.
People use Pinterest to keep ideas for crafts, inspirational quotes, parties, weddings, holidays and home building. Really, you can keep pinboards of whatever you want.
You can follow a person (ie, all the boards they have) or just the one or two boards that match your interests. New pins (posts) from the boards you follow will show up on your home page when you come to Pinterest so you can see what your friends are finding and repin what you love.
What I love most about pinterest is seeing all the cute teaching ideas that people post from their own work or from teacher blogs they follow. I pin things to my pinboards for possible homeschooling in the future, or for teaching my class right now. I also follow pins to their original blog (click on the thumbnail to visit the pin and then click on the picture to visit the original source) to see other ideas from the same blog or resource. I've found a number of great blogs to follow through Pinterest.
To sign up for Pinterest, visit www.pinterest.com and request an invite and follow the prompts on the invite emailed to you. You can sign up using a Facebook or Twitter account but the two only communicate if you tell them to (ie, Pinterest wont publish anything on your Facebook wall without you agreeing to it.)
Use the search box in the top left corner to find me, Caz Aldridge, and my education pinboard, Coolest Class In Town.
Happy pinning.
2 comments:
Welcome to the world of the grown up blogger. I like the idea of the teacher filtering the photos that children can use in class- set up Creative Commons photos and cut down on hours of cruising Google images for graphics.
I like that idea too but on Pinterest it's hard to find images that are creative commons as most images are links to sources elsewhere or lack licensing info. You would have to follow every image to it's origin to confirm copyrights.
You could use it to pull together creative commons images from elsewhere if you knew what kind of images your kids were gng to want in advance. If does mean you are doing a lot of the leg work of image hunting for them though. Specially if you want to give them options.
Someone could make a library of school safe creative commons images. That would be good. I'm sure schools would pay a small membership fee to cover maintenance.
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