Pinterest

Pinterest offers a ‘virtual’ pinboardphoto sharing website, which canwork rather like visual bookmarking.Pedagogical Uses Collect groups of online materials for students to follow up. Encourage students to curate and organise materials around particular themes, sharing their findings with each other.Research Uses Create and manage theme-based image collections, col- lecting material from across the internet, and re-pinning materials from others within your research field.Setting Up an Account Go to http://pinterest.com/. Select ‘Join Pinterest’ Pinterest will ask you to select 5 pictures to give them an idea of the kind of images they could recommend. No way round this. Set up your account using Facebook, Twitter or sign up with your email address. 1

Pinning an Image Follow the instructions to ‘Favourite’ the ‘PinIt’ button (http://j.mp/pinitfaves) to pin directly from the web. On the page that you wish to repin an image from, or to bookmark the page, press ‘Pin It’, then choose from the available images. Choose which ‘board’ your image belongs to, and give a meaningful de- scription. Press ‘Pin It’, and you’re pinned. Board Functions  To create a new board, select ‘Add’, ‘Create a Board’ then fill in the details.  Images can’t be re-ordered (yet) - the most recently pinned image will be at the top. To Re-Pin Hover your mouse over a Pinned image, and ‘Repin’ Keep an eye on the copyright policies: http://pinterest.com/about/copyright/Dr Bex Lewis: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. 2

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