Wednesday, 8 July, 2015 - 16:52
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Pinterest Tips for Teachers
Some Suggestions on how Teachers can Use Pinterest
- Pinterest is a great content curation tool for teachers. The ability to pin together images, links, and videos into visually appealing boards makes information sharing way exciting. Teachers can create resource boards for themselves or their students and start sharing with each other.
- Teachers can use Pinterest as a brainstorming tool where students can contribute in the pinning together of ideas and resources to create one huge visual.
- Teachers can have students set up their own boards based on certain classroom projects or assignments
- Pinterest can also be used to locate images and videos to include in your lesson.
- Make group work visual by inviting students to collaborate and share images for presentations or links to papers, resources, and research
- Teachers can also encourage students photo journal on Pinterest.
- Pinterest provides loods of printable games, and lesson plans for teachers to use in their classroom.
- Teachers can use Pinterest to find new books to recommend to their students.
- Check out Awesome Ways Educators Use Pinterest for more ideas.
How to use Pinterest for professional development - Here are some ideas to help you use this social networking tool for professional development purposes
- Use the DIY and Crafts category on Pinterest to find inspiration and new project ideas for your teaching.
- Create collaborative boards with other teachers and work together on projects or build better lesson plans.
- Connect with other educators and share ideas and links with them.
- Use the " like" and commenting system to interact with what your fellow educators pin and to also get engaged in meaningful conversations and talks.
- Pin you favourite classroom projects or lesson plans and let others provide their suggestions for improvement. This can also generate a healthy and educational discussion.
- Look for books that other educators recommend and try to read some.
- There are many pin boards about the use of technology in the classroom, find and follow some of them.
- Promote your own classroom blog and show others your teaching skills and your students creativity.
- Pinterest has loads of educational and teachers blogs that you can search for and read.
- Stay on top of the latest education trends by checking the recent pins on Pinterest.
- Search for tutorials on Pinterest to learn how to take on a project or tackle a new technology or anything else.