3. Aggregated Content Curation

You PIN your INTERESTS

Smart name, huh? It's also an useful tool for teachers, let's dive in!

Critical questions and problems encountered:

At first I was a bit lost on how to use Pinterest. I knew about its existence, but I had never tried it before... So this was a difficult learning process, but I think I got the hang of it. It is pretty intuitive, they start by asking you questions about your interests so that you can start pinning right away!

My main worry was how was I going to store all the ideas I found. Well, you can create boards, like mine below. This way you can organise your posts in topics. As teachers, you could organise them in subjects or grades.

In my case, I created a board with Arts and Crafts resources, organised in sections. You can check them out by clicking here:

Discoveries

I also found something extremely useful. It turns out you can create sections inside each board. In my case I used them to store my resources according to their type: images, youtube, websites...

Uses or connections

Pinterest is an useful way for teachers to organise the resources they are already using or to store ideas for future projects. Moreover, it is designed to encourage the interaction between people, allowing for comments and following each other. It can be used not only as an educational resource, but in a personal way to look for inspiration for pictures, funny images to have a nice time or sources of information for any hobby you have, so it is quite nice honestly.

Martyrating

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Pros: 

• Facilitates storing ideas in an organised way
• Improves interaction between educators and creators of content
• You can add an extension to Chrome to pin anything you see on the net. 

Cons: 

• (not really a con, maybe something to take into account) Respecting other's licenses 

That's it, I hope it was useful!