Janelle Catlett (jacncville) on Pinterest
It's amazing to me how popular Pinterest has become for curating the web. I know that typically, I join something early... then I don't "get it" and so I either keep messing with it or I leave it and completely ignore it for quite a while... which is what I did with Pinterest! I didn't really see a purpose at first... as my sis-in-law showed me how she was simply pinning color combinations to test ideas for her family room. So... It wasn't until I got my ipad this past winter that I decided to re-visit Pinterest as a fun relaxing way to spend time with my ipad, getting to know it better! I was so amazed at how fun it was to build what I would call a perfect magazine with all of your favorite things. It was crazy how one awesome picture would reveal an amazing blog or resource that I found I wanted to remember and revisit. I loved the personalization of my boards... at how they reflected who I was as a person. I was so trying to keep Pinterest a fun, non-work related web tool... but as always, my lives merge and cannot be seperated. I guess the real turning point for me was when Molly, an amazing art teacher at one of my schools, shared her Pinterest boards with me. I was absolutely blown away at the extensive and highly organized art curriculum that she had built using Pinterest. I was soo soo inspired by her boards and the amazing ideas that were gathered in front of my eyes... so then I tilted! I began searching for my teacher friends, I began searching by educational categories. And now... well... my boards really reflect me as a whole person and of course they will continue to expand in more categories as I diversify my boards. It is an amazing and still very relaxing way to explore your interests via the web. It supports the dreamer in all of us.
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