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There are many applications that allow you to save ideas and images that you find on the internet and to share them with others.<\/p>\nThere are many applications that allow you to save ideas and images that you find on the internet and to share them with others.<\/p>\n
Among the simplest tools to use is Pinterest<\/a> which calls itself “The World’s Catalog of Ideas”. \u00a0 While Pinterest is often used to save recipes, photos, and wardrobe ideas, many teachers\u00a0\u00a0use it to save lesson plans, lists,\u00a0and handouts for teaching.<\/p>\n On Pinterest, you create “boards”, i.e. categories. When you find an interesting web image or web page, you can use an extension loaded\u00a0in your web browser to save to Pinterest. Or you can load the URL\u00a0directly in\u00a0Pinterest.com to save it to your appropriate board.\u00a0You can add a short\u00a0description of the “pin” and Pinterest will save the image with the\u00a0URL for the site or image. You can then “Visit the site” from your Pinterest board. We have a Pinterest board for this class:\u00a0MHC Learning in a Digital Age<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more information about how to use Pinterest, try these instructions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are many applications that allow you to save ideas and images that you find on the internet and to share them with others. Among the simplest tools to use is Pinterest which calls itself “The World’s Catalog of Ideas”. \u00a0 While Pinterest is often used to save recipes, photos, and wardrobe ideas, many teachers\u00a0\u00a0use… Read more Pinterest for Social Bookmarking<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4,6,3,5],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-social-bookmarking","tag-bookmarking","tag-images","tag-pinterest","tag-social-media","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/techtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/techtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/techtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/techtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/techtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/techtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/techtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/techtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/techtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/techtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/techtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Pinterest](\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/techtools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-14-at-10.26.44-PM.png\")
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<\/a>It’s simple and quick to save ideas, search Pinterest for images that others have saved, and follow boards that curate ideas that interest you. Pinterest will also email you suggestions of\u00a0\u00a0pins and boards it thinks might interest you based on what you have curated on the site.<\/p>\n