{"id":1048,"date":"2016-04-11T22:50:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T22:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2016-04-11T22:50:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T22:50:27","slug":"pinterest-wins-fans-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/2016\/04\/11\/pinterest-wins-fans-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinterest Wins Fans in Academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/georgeanders\/2016\/04\/11\/pinterest-wins-fans-in-academia-helping-users-analyze-tough-novels\/#2c166b6e3c83\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1049 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/files\/2016\/04\/Ellis-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Ellis\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/files\/2016\/04\/Ellis-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/files\/2016\/04\/Ellis.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Forbes article on Alicia Ellis&#8217; use of Pinterest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ask people in academia what they think of social media, and you\u2019re likely to hear laments about the rotting of students\u2019 minds. An epidemic of hasty posting, sharing and up-voting creates the risk that no one wants to think anymore. But Hampshire College\u00a0assistant professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshire.edu\/faculty\/alicia-e-ellis\">Alicia E. Ellis<\/a> has come up with an ingenious way of using Pinterest \u2014 yes, Pinterest! \u2014 to help her students analyze challenging novels, poems and essays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes article on Alicia Ellis&#8217; use of Pinterest Ask people in academia what they think of social media, and you\u2019re likely to hear laments about the rotting of students\u2019 minds. An epidemic of hasty posting, sharing and up-voting creates the risk that no one wants to think anymore. But Hampshire College\u00a0assistant professor Alicia E. Ellis &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/2016\/04\/11\/pinterest-wins-fans-in-academia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pinterest Wins Fans in Academia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":378,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10979,27568,27563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blended-learning","category-faculty-news","category-hampshire-teaching-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}