Keep Calm & Pin On!

    Pinterest is a media platform termed by it’s own founder and CEO as “catalog of ideas”. Registered (a must) users can upload pins (images, link articles, and videos) and compile them as collections known as pinboards. Everything else can be personalized and everyone can interact with other registered members. This is an amazing, useful tool for teachers and students to gather ideas for instructional learning designs and concepts. Share your awesome classroom ideas, too!

Advantages:

1. Pin anything from the web like articles, blogs, images, videos, etc. You can get just about anything from this media!

2. Pinterest has a built-in search engine boost. When you create a board of your interest, Pinterest will automatically boost your search engine result listings.

3. Everything is visually presented. This way if you’re a teacher, it brings excitement and interest in the learning part of the students.

4. Pinterest users are mostly women (65%). Women have amazing and unique ideas they share everyday. This is a great opportunity for us teachers (who are also mostly teachers) and students to find the best ideas in the web.

Disadvantages:

I only have one disadvantage about using Pinterest. There has been some copyright issues because of others’ posting others’ images. Since teachers loves(ssss) to get their teaching ideas online, we just have to be a little careful about pinning others’ images, videos, or articles. 

How To Create a Pinterest Board

Here is one of my Pinterest Board I've just recently created. April's Pinterest Board