2. What is Pinterest?
“Pinterest is a tool for collecting and
organizing things you love.”
• Visual bookmarking tool based on interest
• Organizational tool
• Collaborative tool
• Social Media Site

3. Why Should You Use
Pinterest?

4. The Breakdown: Pins
Pin: A pin can include an image or a video that can
either be uploaded from your computer or straight from
a website. Other people can repin your pin and when
selected, you are linked directly to the original site that
it came from. You can add your own descriptions to a
pin.

5. The Breakdown: Boards
Board: A board is used to organize your pins, often in
categories. You can create multiple boards, both
publically and privately.

6. The Breakdown: Home Feed
Home feed: Your home feed contains a collection of
pins from boards that you choose to follow. It is updated
every time someone you follow adds a pin. I sidebar on
the left, allows you to see who has repinned your pins.

7. The Breakdown: Following
and Unfollowing a Board
Following: You can follow other people’s boards on
Pinterest. When you follow someone, their pins are
displayed on your home feed.
Unfollowing: When you follow someone, it is never
permanent. When you choose to unfollow
someone, their boards will no longer show up on your
home feed.

8. Pinterest in Education
• You can search
categories on
Pinterest.
• Education
• DIY
• Search by pin
• Search by
board
• Search by
pinner

9. Ways to Use Pinterest in
Education
• Student Use:
• Group collaboration when invited to join board
• Allows students to be
creative, organized, resourceful
• Projects, presentations, journals, artwork, etc
• Organization:
• Easy access to original source
• Categorize boards by subject or unit
• Brief summary about pin/easy to remember

10. Ways to Use Pinterest in
Education
• Lesson Plans:
• Bookmark/pin
• Check back later
• Search themes
• Sharing Ideas:
• Set up boards for multiple people to pin
• Collaborate with teachers, parents, and students
• Share ideas

11. My Board: Active Approaches
to ASD in EDU
• My board targets teachers educating students with Autism
Spectrum Disorder.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
• ”Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and autism are both general
terms for a group of complex disorders of brain development.
These disorders are characterized by difficulties in:”
• Social interaction
• Verbal & nonverbal communication
• Repetitive behaviors

12. My Board: Active Approaches
to ASD in EDU
• “ASD can be associated with intellectual disability
with difficulties in:”
• motor coordination
• Attention
• “Some persons with ASD excel in:”
• Visual skills
• Music
• Math
• Art

13. Pins On My Board Focus on…
• Social & Behavioral Approaches
• Many people with ASD have difficulty socializing and
regulating their emotions. It is sometimes challenging
for them to see things from another person’s
perspective
• Sensory/Movement
• People with ASD typically experience sensory
processing disorders. This occurs when the brain has
difficulty processing sensory information.

15. References
0 Images downloaded from :
http://pinleague.com/pinleague-blog/
http://about.pinterest.com/basics/
http://edudemic.com/2012/12/a-straightforward-
guide-to-using-pinterest-in-education/
0 Autism Speaks Inc. (2013). Autism Speaks. It’s Time to
Listen. Retrieved March 13, 2013 from:
http://www.autismspeaks.org/what-
autism/symptoms#social (info on autism)
0 Morrison, A. (2011). School Systems Blog. Four Ways
to Use Pinterest in Education. Pearson School Systems.
Retrieved March 13, 2013, from
http://www.pearsonschoolsystems.com/blog/?p=424