By: Orli Goldstein and Stephanie Garcia

Ben Silbermann loved collecting as a child and

wanted to create Pinterest to help people

continue their collections online.

“What you collect says

so much about who you

are," Silbermann.

A place to organize and share online images you find

interesting or inspiring.

The portability of Pinterest has replaced the three-

ring binder.

People create Boards and then pin ideas.

Examples:

• Organize inspiring images for work.

• Cooks keep online recipe boxes.

• DIY-ers can bookmark tutorials for those rainy day

projects.

December 9, 2009 -The Development of Pinterest began by co

founders Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp, and Paul Sciarra.

March 10, 2010 - The first prototype of Pinterest was launched

and the site was only open to people with invitation and a

small group of colleagues and family members.

March 2011 - Pinterest launched it's first IPhone app which

brought in a more than expected number of downloads .

December 2011 - Pinterest was one of the top 10 largest social

networking sites.

January 2012 - Pinterest had reached 11.7 million users.

October 2013 -Pinterest is worth 3.8 billion dollars.

• 20 million users

• IPhone app downloaded 200,000 time per/day

• Pinterest for Android users was first released in August, along

with the Ipad app

• Pinterest users spend an average of 14 minutes on the site

• Over 4 million daily visitors

Users on Pinterest are called pinners.

When you share something on Pinterest, each

bookmark is called a pin.

When you share someone else’s pin on Pinterest,

it’s called a repin.

You group pins together by topic onto various

boards or pinboards in your profile.

There are three major ways teachers and students can use Pinterest into their classrooms.

• Inspiration

• Lesson planning

• Professionally

• Suggest reading material

• Share quotes and inspiration

• Show student work

• Can be:

Teacher to teacher

Teacher to student

Student to student

• To keep future, new and current students connected,

involved and informed, many colleges create boards

that focus on:

• Sports teams

• Game day tailgating

• Campus life

• Local interests

• Fashion and college gear

• Fitness

• Food

• Famous alumni

• Mascot

• Campus groups and organization

• You can make a group board for students and teachers.

• How to:

• Go to the board and click Edit

• Enter the person's first and last name (or email address) under

Who can add Pins?

• Click their name once it comes up

• Repeat for any other people you'd like to add

• Click Save Changes

• You can add or delete pinners as many times as needed.

• Students can pin pictures that reflect their

interests or hobbies.

• Teachers can share lesson plans or other

resources with faculty.

• Create a class wish list that students can add to for parents

to view.

• Assign discussions on specific pins related to the class

assignment.

• Teachers can share and learn new and innovative teaching

methods.

• Pros

• Promotes collaboration between students and teachers.

• Creates an online compilation of your ideas and

resources.

• Keeps all ideas and resources organized.

• Cons

• At times, not all media can be repinned.

• Others can pin your material opening your users to other

pinners outside of your group boards.

• You have to create a Facebook/Twitter account to open a

Pinterest account.

www.pinterest.com