I have a Pintrest account that I created to start keeping track of School Library ideas. I have just a couple of boards and have poked around on it a little. I really enjoy the visual aspect of it, exploring and collecting visual possibilities and ideas.
For this seventh Thing, I downloaded Pintrest to my Moto X, and this may become a new addiction/time waster (in competition with Facebook). It adjusts to whether I’m in portrait or landscape viewing orientation, and holding my finger on a pin to open a menu of options (pin, like, send) is neat and intuitive. When pinning, this mobile version also is missing the annoying step on my laptop where after I’ve pinned something to a board, another window appears asking if I want to go to that board, and I have to tell in no, that I want to go back to browsing where I was. So I’m very happy to see that missing from this mobile version. I’ll probably download this to my Samsung Note 8S as well, and then kiss many an hour goodbye.
One other minor annoyance with Pintrest - it’s a visual thing, which is great, and I have found websites that I’d like to pin but apparently don’t have any images “available” to use to pin, and it bugs me that I can’t just sort of “bookmark” any page, even without an accessible image, but I understand that just may not be what Pintrest is for. So, good thing I have a (very underused) Delicious account…
Pintrest’s uses personally and professionally are probably obvious. Personally, I can collect and organize all sorts of visual representations of ideas, and professionally, I could use it to curate boards for library purposes, such as particular pathfinder-y collections of resources, or giving students or other stakeholders and overview of available options in the library of tools and collections and such, or to link to blog posts and photo albums from the library. It could be used to present student projects (especially if they’re making websites!), promote events (school or neighborhood), etc., as long as there are associated images to pin.
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