What We Want You to Learn:
This tutorial on Pinterest has five areas of learning. These include:What is Pinterest?
Pinterest is a new sharing website. The website is found at www.pinterest.com and allows you to post images, share images, group images, and comment on other people’s images. It is just like making a memory book – you just do it online and share it with your friends. Pinterest allows you to create a page full of images, quotes, and pictures based on the things you like. The difference is that your photos and images are shared online and you can “pin” these items onto “boards”. Basically, that means you place your images into your favorite categories where they can viewed together.Let’s get started with Pinterest!
Go to Pinterest.com
Click on “Join Pinterest”
Sign up for your own Pinterest account
To sign up with your email, click the “your email address” line
Select 5 “boards” to “follow”
Click on an “interest category” from left column of page
(item will highlight when clicked and sample boards to follow will appear)
Click a “board” to “follow”
HINT – HAVE FUN – select a different interests. Once you have selected 5 boards to follow, hit “Next” on upper right corner
Create your OWN board (again – lets have fun!)
Click on any category that interests you on the left bar
Pinterest will suggest some “boards” (example: “I need this”) for your use
Select and Repin Images
Once you have created your own board, you’ll be taken a page that will look like this:
Search through images and find an image you like. Click on that image.
Hint: if you choose not to “pin” the image, just click on screen behind it and it will take you back to the other screen.
Challenge Projects:
Want to do more with Pinterest? Here are a few additional items to explore on your own including videos to help you and connecting with your friends through Pinterest. Have fun!
- Check out the Pinterest YouTube video (see next module on YouTube!) worth checking out!Check out
- How to video on setting up the “Pin It” button on your browser.
- Locate some of your friend and follow them, repin their pins, and comment/like their images.
- Link to your Facebook account – get more of your “friends” sharing on Pinterest