Introduction
Being new to
Pinterest and all of its wonderful qualities I am enjoying exploring and
finding out things for myself. What I have found is that it is such a new
technology, barley any papers, research documents and articles have been
written so far, especially in an educational perspective. I have researched different
databases from the internet and have broadened my search to include not only Pinterest
but social bookmarking, collaborative learning and another similar site that is
currently being used in education, Diigo. I have divided my research findings
from these journals, articles and websites into several categories that address
and describe Pinterest in an educational view. Starting with the history of Pinterest,
social bookmarking, comparing to Diigo, trends and facts, issues, teaching
potential and examples of use.