I confess that I spend far too much time on social media. I like Facebook to connect with far-flung friends and family members. I use Twitter to interact with other early modern scholars (and I’ve developed a number of professional contacts because of my use of the site). Last fall, on the recommendation of a couple of friends, I began to use Pinterest to start collecting (“pinning”) items that interested me – especially, like a huge number of users, crafts that I’ll never actually attempt and recipes I might try when I’m feeling particularly ambitious. I joined tumblr over my winter break, mostly to figure out what it’s all about – and I’ve discovered it’s both a place to aggregate things that inspire me and a place to post some of my own creative work,in particular, my photography.
From my tumblr for my Renaissance Literature course. Continue reading “Connecting Online: Using Tumblr & Pinterest”