Embarrassing Secret: I had no idea how to use Pinterest before today.
I feel like lots of moms and teachers use Pinterest. I had no idea that there were so many educational resources on there, however! I knew that Pinterest had lots of great ideas for crafts and handmade goodies, but not being much of a crafter, I suppose I never really knew what purpose it could have for me. When I began exploring, I quickly realized how wrong I was. There were poster-like resource, handout-like resources and even general resource-like resources! Very quickly I began saving items and realized that I was going to need more than a "Spanish Board". I already have three boards going:
1) Spanish Verbs
2) Spanish Language
3) Spanish Culture
And of course, as is the case with any technology, there are some things that I struggle with. I wish there were a few more features included on Pinterest. I wish there were a way to see less of certain "Pinners". Is that even a word? There are some folks on Pinterest who are posting items with grammar mistakes, missing accents, etc. I would love to "dislike" those Pinners in order to see less of them as I am searching. I also wish that Pinterest had a filter. So say I wanted to locate the perfect worksheet for the verb tener. I wish I could filter by cost, then by popularity or grade level, etc. Because there are SO many resources on her, it would be faster and easier if I could do those things.
All things considered, I feel like I have a great new resource under my belt that I can go to before I re-create the wheel or try to hunt down various documents in old folders and flashdrives. Pinterest gets a thumbs up from me!
Great idea to have more targeted searching on pinterest. Wonder if anyone has created a way to do that! You can focus what you see a bit by just following the boards you're interested in, rather than everything a particular pinner posts. Still, there's so much on pinterest - it's amazing and overwhelming! Glad you had a chance to dig in to it!
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