What exactly is Pinterest? Pinterest is a site that is made up of pictures and comments. You can log in by either making up your own username and password, by using your google account, or by simply linking Pinterest to your Facebook account. After logging on to this site you have the option to follow absolutely anything you want. What is awesome about this site is that you can follow absolutely anything you want. The purpose of this is to share photos and ideas with everyone on the internet. There is also a search engine on the top of this site where you can search anything from quotes to first grade geometry lesson plans. I personally use this site as a tool to gain ideas for lesson plans, and organization. I have even searched study tips in order to pass a test. If you come across something that you do not want to lose you can pin the picture to one of your boards. You can create as many boards as you want, with as many pictures as you want. It is unlimited.
Teachers can really benefit from this site because they can search holiday project ideas, classroom organization ideas, and even classroom management ideas. A first grade teacher that I interned with during my senior year of high school used Pinterest for everything. Her classroom looked like it belonged on Pinterest for people to pin on their boards. For example, during the last couple weeks before summer she bought a blow up pool that was the size of her rug during morning meeting. She used this pool in her classroom as a tool to get her students to be engaged in learning. If they were well behaved they had the ability to read and do work inside of the blow up pool. I thought this was a fantastic idea because the students responded perfectly. The pool was a form of positive reinforcement for behaving well. She got this idea from Pinterest, and has been using it ever since.
Teachers can also benefit from Pinterest for project ideas. If you search Halloween crafts for first graders, or anything along the lines of that, a handful of ideas will appear on the screen. What is awesome is that Pinterest also provides links to other sites on the internet with actual documents to print out for the said project. I truly love this site, and I know I will use it in my future. I will recommend this site to everyone because it is just so full of information.
