2. http://www.pinterest.com/
Pinterest is a visual discovery tool that
people use to collect ideas for their
different projects and interests. People
create and share collections (called
“boards”) of visual bookmarks (called
“Pins”) that they use to do things like
plan trips and projects, organize
events or save articles and recipes.
The site was founded by Ben
Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan
Sharp. It is managed by Cold Brew
Labs and funded by a small group of
entrepreneurs and investors.
3. http://instagram.com/
Instagram is an online photosharing, video-sharing and social
networking service that enables
its users to take pictures and
videos, apply digital filters to
them, and share them on a
variety of social networking
services, such as Facebook,
Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr.[7] A
distinctive feature is that it
confines photos to a square
shape, similar to Kodak
Instamatic and Polaroid images,
in contrast to the 16:9 aspect
ratio now typically used by
mobile device cameras. Users
are also able to record and
share short videos lasting for up
to 15 seconds.
4. www.facebook.com
Facebook is an online social networking service.
Its name comes from a colloquialism for the
directory given to students at some American
universities.[5] Facebook was founded on
February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his
college roommates and fellow Harvard University
students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum,
Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[6] The
founders had initially limited the website's
membership to Harvard students, but later
expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the
Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually
added support for students at various other
universities before it opened to high-school
students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and
over. Facebook now allows anyone who claims
to be at least 13 years old to become a
registered user of the website.
5. www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/
Learners and educators can use
XPERT to search a growing
database of open learning
resources suitable for students at
all levels of study in a wide
range of different subjects.
Creators of learning resources
can also contribute to XPERT via
RSS feeds created seamlessly
through local installations of
Xerte Online Toolkits.
6. http://www.edtechteacher.org/
At EdTechTeacher, our mission is to help teachers
and schools leverage technology to create studentcentered, inquiry-based learning environments. We
offer keynote presentations, hands-on workshops,
online courses, and live webinars for teachers,
schools, and school districts. Whether you are a
teacher looking to enhance your instructional
practices, or a school leader seeking to foster
change, we have services to fit a variety of needs.
We understand teachers and students because all of
us have been in the classroom.
7. https://www.coursera.org/
Coursera /kɔrsˈɛrə/ is a for-profit educational technology
company offering massive open online courses (MOOCs)
founded by computer science professors Andrew Ng and
Daphne Koller from Stanford University. Coursera works
with universities to make some of their courses available
online, and offers courses in physics, engineering,
humanities, medicine, biology, social sciences,
mathematics, business, computer science, and other
areas. On December 17, 2013, Coursera introduced its
official mobile app for iPhone.
8. https://www.openlearning.com/
Open learning is an innovative movement in
education that emerged in the 1970s and
evolved into fields of practice and study. The
term refers generally to activities that either
enhance learning opportunities within formal
education systems or broaden learning
opportunities beyond formal education
systems. Open learning involves but is not
limited to: classroom teaching methods,
approaches to interactive learning, formats in
work-related education and training,the
cultures and ecologies of learning
communities,and the development and use
of open educational resources. While there is
no agreed-upon, comprehensive definition of
open learning, central focus is commonly
placed on the "needs of the learner as
perceived by the learner.
