‘Curate’ the best bits of the web

Content curation is big news. There is simply too much information on the web and we need tools to break it down into manageable and useful chunks. Like a museum curator would collect the best pieces to show off in a collection, we are starting to want to do that with the information available on the web and Pinterest has certainly proved popular.

Pinterest has created a bit of a storm since it launched and has millions of enthusiastic users who like its simplicity in gathering nice images from all over the web and arranging them onto virtual boards.

In the Classroom?

We see great potential in using Pinterest in the classroom: to arrange images into topic boards, it has the potential to replace the topic box and gather together image links to content from all over the web into nicely-organised topics.

Getting started

Check out this video introduction to Pinterest for teachers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRPNEA3WhKA