Are you ready to get wired?

Whether you're a new teacher or just new at heart, education is increasingly becoming a digital experience. Here's your place to find fun, functional, and (most importantly) FREE sources to enhance your classroom via the world wide web - and ways to fund it all. Okay maybe not ALL, but at least a great, big, giant portion of it. Are you ready to get wired?

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Pinterest

Well, I wasn't planning on making a post on this...but if you don't have a Pinterest account by now, you should. My apologies to all the people reading this that are already "Pinterested," but since I have been on Pinterest for the last hour I just want to make sure you all know, from an education stand point, what the big deal is about this web tool!
What's Pinterest? I said the same thing at first. Between social networking, blogging, e-mailing, etc., I don't need another online distraction from my school homework and literally my home work - helloooo, laundry pile! But someone sent me an invite...and the rest is history - and a lot of repins.
Pinterest allows you to easily search for ideas and projects for just about everything, and then "repin" it on pages you create on your board. It's taking surfing the web to the next level. Instead of just bookmarking the websites on your personal computer, you can log onto your Pinterest account anywhere to access all your awesome online finds.
Yes, you can keep "Googling" away for teaching ideas - I'm not knocking that one bit! But Pinterest allows you to collect your favorite crafts, ideas, and projects in a way that is visual (each "board" you create has a picture of each site you pin) and collaborative. You can see boards other people have collected - and if you LOVE what someone else is choosing to pin, you can follow them. It's a great way for teachers to learn from each other and organize the projects and ideas for their classroom. Seriously, how many times have you come across a great idea online, only to forget about it a day later? Pinterest lets you make a virtual bulletin board of your favorite stuff for your life in and out of the classroom.
A Pinterest account is free, although if you request an account you may have to wait a while for it to go through. The best thing to do is to have someone who already has an account to send you an invite (much, much faster). Try it out, and I'm sure you'll quickly be inspired by all the ideas on there! Who knows? Pretty soon I may be following your board!
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