I was so happy to see that this assignment was directly linked to something I have been wanting to do. Although this is only a start, this is a nice way for me to get started on creating Pinterest boards for teachers that I am collaborating with.
At our school our sixth grade teachers are starting Classroom 21 next year, in which teachers and students participate in project based learning while providing 1-to-1 computing for the students. Last week we had professional development days in which we started planning out our first theme and we determined that each class will be reading The Watson's Go to Birmingham as a read aloud. I told the teachers that I would work on putting together some resources for them to accompany the book. I started building a spreadsheet for them using Google Docs which is nice because it is easily accessible to everyone, but I didn't love the way it looked. I am a more visual learner so my mind works better with set-ups like the boards on Pinterest. Besides I am not great with spreadsheets as you can see below.
I thought it would be nice to build a board on Pinterest and share that board with them. The board turned into a great resource board that will give the teachers ideas to use with the book and other nonfiction titles and primary resources to pair with it. However, I couldn't find a great way to share the board with them besides adding a the link to the spreadsheet I had already created. After MUCH research and a LOT of trial and error I did determine that if you create a business account you can embed your board. So here is my board. My next step is to add a section to my school website where teachers can easily access this board. As you can tell this is something that can be very useful in my educational setting. This could really take off!!!
In case anyone is interested in how I was able to embed my board, I found this blog post to be the most useful: http://monikarunstrom.com/blog/2013/03/how-to-embed-a-pinterest-board-on-your-blog/
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