Pinterest

 Pinterest

 Basic Information

Pinterest is a social network that allows users to visually share, and discover new interests by posting images or videos to their own or others’ boards and browsing what other users have pinned.

Primary Use:

• [General] See ideas & images out in the world that you like, and find lifestyle inspiration & explore articles on trending and recommended topics
• [Faculty] Collaborate, Get ideas for classroom activities, organize your ideas
• [Students] Tutorials, Share ideas, Collaborate

Key Features:

• Using their native videos creates a user-friendly experience for Pinners, making them more inspired to interact with brands.
• Pinterest lens allows the user to have the most control over their searching.
• Using the visual search engine a Pinner can with more ease search using these pincodes. This feature drives offline interactions online.
• Help brands get what they need to produce content that’s optimized for Pinterest’s visual format and Pinners’ unique behavior.
• Organic social’s best friend is Taste Graph, through this marketers can see the connections users make to further understand their tastes and interests.
• Possibilities Planner, gives businesses a look into when pinners begin to plan for holidays and celebrations.
• Produce valuable information about their article and also offer information about their title, site as well as description.
• Pinterest ad groups provide you much control over budgeting their campaigns.

What is Pinterest? 

Category: Collaborative Tool

Keywords: Social Media, Professional Learning, Collaboration

 Detailed Information

Full Description:

Pinterest is a “visual discovery tool” that lets users search for, upload, and collect images for later review, reflection, and inspiration. Users can collect individual images (pins) in collections called boards, and then share their boards publicly or save them for private use. The tablet and mobile apps for Pinterest offer the site’s best features in an easy-to-use interface. Users can easily add pins from the Web, their own photos, or their current location. By selecting Add from Place, users can search for a location, browse photos from that location, and then add pins to their boards. They can also flexibly search their friends’ boards, as well as publicly shared boards from around the world.

Tool Access

To access the tool online or for a related download link (if available) please see sources below:

• Free for individual use using Android, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Chrome, Apps for Windows, Mac Apps

Advantage/ Disadvantage:

Pinterest can be linked to your other social media accounts like Facebook and Twitter. Pinterest is one of the leading social media. That means you can get a wider range of target audience. Pinterest is very beneficial for blogs and websites. Images that are posted on Pinterest boards and pins shared can be linked backed to the original site: that’s huge of the advantages of Pinterest. Keep everything organized and share the things you love all in one place by creating your own board and adding pins to it. You can always go back and view whenever you want. Can teach you what you want to learn by just looking at the pictures or video. Example with girls, there is a step by step tutorial
on how to get makeup done. The main advantage of Pinterest can also be its biggest disadvantage: it relies on images. That means you need to be very mindful of the images you post because it is the image that will attract followers. Poor pictures will have people that follow you skip past you in their feed and not read the message in your description.

Good for Teaching:

Encourage students to explore specific boards or to search specific terms to create their own boards. Have kids create boards that illustrate a theme, evoke a feeling, or tell a story. As a teacher, create your own boards for different units, themes, professional development topics, and activities to further enhance and grow your classroom practice.

Good for Learning:

Pinterest is a useful tool both for random linking and for targeted searching. The education community on Pinterest is significant. Boards are filled with lesson plans, activities, and general ideas for enhancing the classroom. These boards are a great place to learn how to use the search features on Pinterest: Users can link through interesting pins to find related boards, and they can add and subtract search terms to refine a search and better target relevant content. In addition to the serious educator boards, there are boards filled with viral videos, cat pictures, and other far less serious (although no less engaging) content. Luckily, Pinterest is a great space to be both serious and silly. It’s possible to create boards for classroom activities and professional development ideas right alongside boards for outfit ideas and DIY gardening projects. As with any crowdsourced content, users should bring a critical eye to the pins they find and repin. While some might offer high-quality insights on classroom management or a killer activity for the foreign language classroom, others might fall flat or be downright “Not Safe For Work.” So it could be risky to let students roam unsupervised in the world of Pinterest, but with good ground rules for searching, uploading, and pinning, Pinterest could also be a great help to teachers and an engaging and educational addition to the classroom.

  Reviews [For Future Use]

Public and Internal reviews on the quality of the tool and ease of use to learn/ implement.

 Learning Expectation [For Future Use]

General guidelines of how long it typically takes to learn and be comfortable (basic, advanced, expert levels) with the tool as well as what capabilities users have at each level.

• Level of difficulty to learn/ use for each level:
  • Basic  Use/ substitution: 2-4 hours of use
    • General familiarity with the tool
    • Ability to import documents in from MS Word or Powerpoint
    • Ability to create a simple document and share
  • Advanced Use/ augmentation: 20- 30 hours of use
    • General comfort with the tool
    • Ability to make a presentation from scratch including text, graphics, video, and with basic thoughts on style.
  • Expert use/ transformative (modification / redefinition): 40+ hours of use
    • Complete comfort with the tool
    • Ability to offer advice and guidance to others on the tool
    • Ability to use the tool for various design purposes: presentation, booklet, ePortofolio…
    • Understanding of layout, style (font, colors, themes) to meet end users needs

 Examples

Additional Examples:

• Teachers Examples
• Board Titles Examples
• See Lessons for more education examples

 Tutorial Guides

 Templates

If you are interested in starting with a template, which often have background, color theme, and fonts, it may save time and highlight new design elements.

• Creative Market
• Canva
• Staff Generated Templates

 Lesson

 Crowdsource  [For Future Use]

To learn from other faculty or to share your thoughts or resources (e.g. templates) please see below:

• Comments (either blog style or discussion based)
• Upload their examples/ samples (ability to post information in form)
  • Form components: (For future form)
    • Name
  • • Submission type ( Examples, Guides, Lessons, Templates, Reference Link)
  • • Title
  • • Purposes/ Uses
  • • Description (optional)
    • Attachment – Upload or Link
  • Date and Time Uploaded
  • Contact Information (hidden)
  • Download Stats
  • Rating Stats

 Reference

The key resources used to make this resource page. Most all information is public except for specific TCS generated resources. For more examples and resources (e.g. guides, templates, etc) see below:

• Common Sense Media
• Infront
• Quora
• Mike Marko