Teaching demonstration of how to use Pocket in a library setting. Given to LIS458LE Library Instruction Class at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2014.

1. POCKET
Rainie Themer
LIS458LEB

3. WHAT IS POCKET?
 Organizational
application
 Allows you to save
articles, videos, and
images and view them
later
 Compatible for all
devices (laptop, smart
phones, tablets)
 Can view library
without internet

4. HOW DOES POCKET WORK?

5. WAYS TO SAVE: SMARTPHONE OR TABLET
 Download Pocket App
 Find article, video, or
image to view later
 Share to pocket
through phone’s or
tablet’s sharing
capabilities

6. WAYS TO SAVE: COMPUTER
 Add Pocket Button or
Bookmarklet to
toolbar
 Find article, video, or
image to view later
 Click Pocket Button
or Bookmarklet to
automatically add
item to Pocket library

7. WAYS TO SAVE: EMAIL
 Email articles, videos,
or images to your
Pocket account
 Email link from account
you’ve registered
pocket with to
add@getpocket.com
 Link must be in body of
email
 Can only have one link
per email

8. OTHER SAVING FEATURES
 Can send from multiple
email accounts. Must
register each email
through Pocket.
 Can Share with Friends.
 Click “share with friends”
and enter friend’s email
 Friend will receive a
notification and can
choose to add article to
Pocket

9. WAYS TO ORGANIZE
 Categorize articles,
videos, and images
through tags
 Filter searches by
searching tags
 Filter searches by
searching by type
(article, video, image)

10. POCKET LIMITATIONS
 Cannot save articles
through library
databases to view later
due to proxy
 Cannot save PDFs,
format is not
compatible with Pocket

11. HOW CAN STUDENTS BENEFIT FROM
POCKET?
 Allows students to collect web resources for
educational projects and view them later
 Can add resources at any time due to multiple
platform capabilities
 Tags can help students stay organized
 The “Share with a Friend” feature can be beneficial
to students working on group projects who want to
share articles with their partners
 www.getpocket.com

12. QUESTIONS?