Basic instructions to get onto Pinterest in an academic context.

1. Pinterest offers a ‘virtual’ pinboard
photo sharing website, which can
work rather like visual bookmarking.
Pedagogical Uses
 Collect groups of online materials
for students to follow up.
 Encourage students to curate and organise materials
around particular themes, sharing their findings with
each other.
Research Uses
 Create and manage theme-based image collections, col-
lecting material from across the internet, and re-pinning
materials from others within your research field.
Setting Up an Account
 Go to http://pinterest.com/.
 Select ‘Join Pinterest’
 Pinterest will ask you to
select 5 pictures to give them an idea of the kind of im-
ages they could recommend. No way round this.
 Set up your account using Facebook, Twitter or sign up
with your email address.
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2. Pinning an Image
Follow the instructions to ‘Favourite’ the ‘PinIt’
button (http://j.mp/pinitfaves) to pin directly from the web.
On the page that you wish to
repin an image from, or to
bookmark the page, press ‘Pin
It’, then choose from the
available images.
Choose which ‘board’
your image belongs to,
and give a meaningful de-
scription. Press ‘Pin It’,
and you’re pinned.
Board Functions
 To create a new board, select ‘Add’, ‘Create a Board’
then fill in the details.
 Images can’t be re-ordered (yet) - the most recently
pinned image will be at the top.
To Re-Pin
Hover your mouse over a
Pinned image, and ‘Repin’
Keep an eye on the copyright policies: http://pinterest.com/about/copyright/
Dr Bex Lewis: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. 2