Just Pin It! Pinterest in the Classroom

Learn how teachers are using Pinterest in the classroom - from designing lessons to meet Common Core to creating engaging bulletin boards, and everything in between!

Brief introduction and audience check (5 minutes)
A quick overview of Pinterest
Pinterest and Common Core

W.4.6. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting.

W.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.

RI.8.7. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.

SL.11-12.2. Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data.

SL.11-12.5. Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.

Teaching Copyright and Digital Citizenship
An opportunity to teach about copyright and Creative Commons since Pinterest doe not ask users to consider permissions before each "pin". Teach your students how to properly cite their sources.  The owner of the source has the right to have the pins taken down.

Collecting vs. Curating
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Fisher, Michael. "Leverage the Web for the Common Core - LiveBinder." Leverage the Web for the Common Core - LiveBinder. N.p., 13 Nov. 2012. Web. 23 Oct. 2013.
Getting Started with Pinterest (5 minutes)
What will you use Pinterest for?
Personal: Use your personal gmail, yahoo, hotmail, or other account
Classroom and/or Professional Networking: Use your school email or a gmail, yahoo, hotmail, account that you created specifically for your classroom

I have several accounts, all for different purposes:
OneTechieMom: Demo site
Knots-n-Knits: personal
Curriculum Companion: Project from work

The Basics of Pinterest 
  1. Create an account on Pinterest using an email account
  2. Search for something you want to pin
  3. Pin to your first board
  4. Keyword search
  5. Search by category
  6. Landing page is called your "Home Feed" - collection of pins from pinners and board you follow as well as recommendations from Pinterest.  To get here, click on the Pinterest logo when you're logged in.
Managing Your Pinterest Space (20 minutes)
  1. Edit your information - add a photo, write a description, update your user name, etc.
  2. Your boards (your organized pins), your pins (all of the items you've pinned), your likes (things you have liked, but have not pinned)
  3. Edit a board - Change cover, description (be descriptive and use #hashtags), category, who can pin (if this is a shared board)
  4. Find friends, follow boards (follow all vs. follow individual boards) Example: http://www.pinterest.com/edutopia/  
  5. Settings - Basic info, Email Notifications, Social Networks, Deactivate Account
  6. Notifications - the red pin button to the right of your name
  7. "+" Button - add pins from outside of Pinterest

Examples of uses for shared/group boards:
  • Student group projects
  • Grade level teams
  • Departments
  • PTA/PTO
  • Clubs on campus
  • Organizations
  • Other?

Pinterest Goodies

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Cobb, Jeff. "Who Are Your Curators?" Mission to Learn Lifelong Learning Blog RSS. N.p., 2 Mar. 2010. Web. 23 Oct. 2013.
Hands-on Activity:  
  1. Install the Pin It button/Pinterest Bookmarklet
  2. Create a board on a topic that you is of interest to you and  your students
  3. Search from within the categories on Pinterest or use keywords to find at least three pins that you can pin to your new board
  4. Go to Google, or your favorite search engine, and do a keyword search of your topic
  5. Find at least one media item (photo, image, or video) that you can pin to your board using the Pin It button or Pinterest Bookmarklet
This 5:32 minute video gives a great overview of how to use these tools on Pinterest.
Other Goodies: Secret Boards
  • Only visible to you and those you invite - will not show up on Pinterest
  • Can switch a board to a secret board only when adding it as new - cannot switch an existing board to secret
  • Can have up to 3 secret boards - can make one public to add another secret board
  • Can participate on unlimited number of secret boards that you do not own
  • If you invite others to your secret board, only you can make your board secret or public
  • Invitees can only pin to your secret (group) board and send requests to you to invite others (you have to approve new invitees of the invitees)
  • Everyone can pin and like pins on secret boards, no read only status
  • Can pin contents of your secret board to other boards, but they will only display on your secret board
  • To leave a group board (if you are not the creator), go to "who can pin?" and click "leave" and confirm
  • Can remove pinners or block pinners from a group board; you will have to delete their pins off your board if you want
  • Blocking is like they've never been invited - board will not be in their profile, they won't be able to pin, pins will be removed, and anyone that they invited to join your board will be blocked too
  • As the creator of a group board, only you can change the board's title and description, remove pinners, and delete any pin from the board
Pinterest in the Classroom (25 minutes)

"16 Ways Educators Use Pinterest" from OnlineUniversities.com. Created 09 Apr. 2012. Retrieved on 22 Oct. 2013

16 Ways Educators Use Pinterest

Your Classoom

Lessons
  • Brainstorming - Student created collaborative boards to create one huge visual on a given topic
  • Research - Collect resources around a topic and incorporate these resources into a paper or blog post - Example
  • Share resources with students - Provide a board of resources for students to use in projects, to help develop concepts, build background
  • Icebreaker - students create a board about their hobbies or interests and share it with classmates
  • Virtual field trips - students create virtual field trips
  • Vocabulary development - students create mini-dictionaries
  • Differentiation - design boards for the same topic, but with different tasks
  • Showcase student work - create a gallery board
  • Current/historical events - find media about current/historical events and use the comments to discuss each item
  • Picture/Prompts - put a picture and have students write about it

Professional
  • Networking with others
  • Following organizations or teachers
  • Sharing your own resources that you've created (via TeachersPayTeachers and Pinterest)
  • Sharing collaborative boards to create a collection of resources on a given topic

How will you use Pinterest in the classroom?  List your thoughts here.
Q & A / Session Evaluation (5 minutes)
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Resources Used for this Presentation:

"16 Ways Educators Use Pinterest." OnlineUniversitiescom. N.p., 09 Apr. 2012. Web. 22 Oct. 2013. <http://www.onlineuniversities.com/ways-educators-use-pinterest>. 

Andreoentoro. "What Is Pinterest? An Animated Video." YouTube. YouTube, 09 May 2012. Web. 22 Oct. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJzD4vF5dFA>. 

Cobb, Jeff. "Who Are Your Curators?" Mission to Learn Lifelong Learning Blog RSS. N.p., 2 Mar. 2010. Web. 23 Oct. 2013. <http://www.missiontolearn.com/2010/03/content-curator/>. 

Fernandes, Kim. "Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter...Oh My!" YouTube. YouTube, 05 Apr. 2012. Web. 22 Oct. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_irI4ygBII>. 

Ferriter, William M. "Blogging." Digitally Speaking / Blogging. N.p., 19 Oct. 2009. Web. 23 Oct. 2013. <http://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/w/page/17791566/Blogging>. 

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Fisher, Mike. "Digigogy: Collection or Curation?" Digigogy: Collection or Curation? Digigogy.com, 11 June 2010. Web. 23 Oct. 2013. <http://digigogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/collection-or-curation.html>. 

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TeachThought Staff. "14 Brilliant Bloom’s Taxonomy Posters For Teachers." TeachThought. N.p., 7 Apr. 2013. Web. 23 Oct. 2013. <http://www.teachthought.com/learning/14-brilliant-blooms-taxonomy-posters-for-teachers/>. 

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