(2015-12-16) Caulfield Wikity And Pinterest

[Mike Caulfield: Wikity and Pinterest. After my presentation at OpenEd, David Wiley said he wished he hadn’t gotten a call in my session because he wanted to ask a provocative question: How was what I was doing with OER/Wikity different from Pinterest for text?

I replied that I’d love to be compared to Pinterest, which is a huge inspiration to me. In fact, I’ve long thought that Pinterest is the most successful OER sharing engine in existence.

In K-8 education, Pinterest is the OER platform; everything else is a rounding error. This is partially because pictures are just more natively shareable than text on the web, but it is also because the metaphor is one of copying resources into one’s own space

The differences between Wikity and Pinterest? (multi fundamental)

We might have to contend with the issue of forking before reading. We’ve generally assumed that people read an article and then decide whether to fork it to their site. But another interesting pattern might be to go on a quick foraging session and fork everything that looks halfway interesting to a working space (thinking space) which gets pruned later. (SocialBookmarking)