IT 365
The Teacher's Guide to Pintrest

Pintrest has been found to be a useful tool in the educational field that benefits both teachers and students. Teachers can create boards and pin all kinds of useful artifacts pulled from various other places and "pin it" to the board; this can consist of images, other supportive articles, videos, etc. anything that can be considered assistive or supportive of the original idea on the board. This allows teachers to create their own lesson plan boards and more that may assist other teachers. Teachers can also pull from other teachers' lesson plans to pin to pin to their own. Pintrest helps teachers to create: educational-related boards; share quotes and inspiration; share visuals and other artifacts for art classes; offer students suggestive reading material; encourage student's participation; show student's works; curate content; organize ideas; collaborate with others (students or teachers); and allow and encourage students to use pintrest. Students can use Pintrest as well to participate in journalism activities of their own interest, and to have a place to show their own works and receive feedback or comments.

I think this is useful tool for teachers and students both after reading this article. I believe it would be useful and beneficial in helping teachers collaborate not only other teachers but their students as well. Teachers can use Pintrest to pull from other teachers, ideas and more that they can use and pin to their own content. This is useful in broadening one's horizons so to say through collaboration, discovery, and acquainting with other's point of view. I think it would be a good tool for students too. What student doesn't want to please their teacher and do good work well enough to be pinned to the board. I would have liked to have used something like this in my schooldays to pin my works on and receive feedback and critiques from other students before submitting it for a final grade. Something like that would have also helped students build better collaborative, and social skills.