Pinterest

The visual bookmarking tool that helps you discover and save creative ideas.

Benefits:

Discovering new things

Inspiration

Sharing

Making contacts

Building a portfolio of things you like

Building a portfolio of your work (e.g. a photographer creating a board of their photos)

Pedagogical applications:

1. Locate amazing images for your lessons. Pinterest is a very visual resource, which is what makes it such a great place to look when you’re trying to find images for a lesson or a lecture. There are tons of material that is historical, contemporary, art historical, or just plain interesting to look through.

2. Have students pin project ideas. Pinterest can also be a great place to get students working. Teachers could have students pin ideas on a board that relate to a particular project they’ll be working on.

3. Use pinning as part of a lesson. Of course, pinning itself could also be an educational experience. Students could have to pin items that fit a certain set of criteria as part of a lesson.