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=Lee Digiovanni's Spring 2012 Cool Tool=

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The beautiful thing about Pinterest is that it is an online visual bulletin board/filing system. Here's a picture of how it would be organized on someone's page:



With Pinterest, you can create your own "boards" around things you want to save. Above, you can tell that I have some interest areas that have links that I want access to at some point in the future, but am afraid that I'll lose if I just save it as a bookmark on my computer.

When you go to the picture itself, you can then click on it and it takes you directly to the web page that has the information you want to access.

For teaching purposes, I've seen a number of assignments along the way that have basically been a resource file, or a collection of information that students gather and submit. Pinterest would allow for a visual "bulletin board" or "file cabinet" of ideas that student could send the link to, and you could grade.

Here's the link to my page that is a collection of websites that I might use in any of the education classes that I teach - you can see that someone could just send you the link to their board that they created and then you could access the information they've collected:

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Here's an example of an assignment I built with Pinterest in mind:



Something to think about! Enjoy :)