Pin-It to Win-It

Social media has truly exploded over the last decade.  I think we all get that.

Facebook is huge and we use it to keep in touch with family and friends, share interesting photos, show-off our kids or just be social (social media, right?).  Lots of schools and businesses are using Facebook to promote themselves as well.  Fast, easy, efficient and able to connect with multiple users instantaneously.

One of my favorite social media (I use social media to describe any tool that shares information, pictures and videos digitally) is Pinterest.  If you are not on Pinterest, get an account and go!

Pinterest allows you to quickly "pin" interesting websites, videos, images to a visually organized "board."  Basically, you are bookmarking your favorite places.  Remember Delicious or Diigo?  Yeah, me either.

The beauty of Pinterest:

• Any time, any where...

Pinterest has apps for computers, iPads, smartphones, etc...Ever have a chat with someone and they mention this great website and you don't write it down and forget the address?  With your phone, just Pin It during the conversation.

• It's a graphical organizer!

We are visual people.  Our brains work better and we remember more if we see something.  You can organize all your pins under boards.

• Boards

You can find a board for anything.  Literally.  As a professional tool, I search for Common Core Resources and find hundreds of boards with thousands of useful tools to teach the core.  I can also search by grade, by topic, by science experiment, by business, etc... This is truly an awesome professional tool.

• Sharing

Pinterest is a social tool for sharing and commenting on other's pins.  Great way to make connections with other people interested in the same things you are and with other professionals.

• Recipes

OK.  I added this one for myself.  Truth be told, I have NOT found a bad recipe yet from anything to drinks for summer to dinners to healthy snacks for my kids.  The recipes on here are people's favorites, ones they make often and trust.  Truly the best of the best.  My wife and I no longer have a cookbook of family recipes...we have Pinterest.

I encourage you to give it a shot.  OR, if you have a Pinterest account, let me know...so I can follow you.  Also feel free to click on my Pinterest site(s) to see what its all about.

CESA 6 Media Center

My Personal Boards