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Site Tour — Better Online Bookmarking! Pinboard is a personal archive for things you find online and don't want to forget. The site has been around since July 2009 and has about 25,000 active users. Why Pinboard? Here are thirteen great reasons to use Pinboard: Pinboard is very fast, even if you have tens of thousands of bookmarks or tags.You can sync bookmarks from many outside sites, including Twitter, Instapaper, and Pocket.You can connect up to three Twitter accounts and get a searchable archive of your tweets. The site is reliable. Outages are rare and brief. Please skim over the following to get an idea of how the site works: Bookmarks Here's what a bookmark looks like on Pinboard: A bookmark has a title, URL, a description of unlimited length, and one or more optional tags. If you sign up for archiving (see below), you also get a link to a stored copy of the page, viewable by clicking the little checkbox next to the title.

Privacy Pinboard is set up to give you extensive control over privacy. Read Later Saving Bookmarks Notes. Content Discovery Tools by Robin Good | ZEEF. Creative Commons. Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license. Here are some recently added bits and pieces: Attribution (CC BY 2.0) » 91767649 photos (See more) Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND 2.0) » 25009436 photos (See more) Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) » 117052837 photos (See more) Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 2.0) » 63465514 photos (See more) Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) » 131662580 photos (See more) Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 2.0) » 49480401 photos (See more) Public Domain Dedication (CC0) » 4786372 photos (See more) Public Domain Mark » 13393877 photos (See more) "Creative Commons is a non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright.

" creativecommons.org Briefly... Attribution means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit. Creative commons search. Royalty free images, photos, vectors and videos on Fotolia. Merlot. OER Commons. SOL*R. TED: Ideas worth spreading. Lessons Worth Sharing | TED-Ed.

Getty Images Canada. Flickr - Photo Sharing. Wikimedia Commons. NFB. Youtube education channel. Open eLearning Content Repositories. Open Educational Content For this exemplary collection the focus is on best practice examples: IIEP-UNESCO Wiki of OER repositories UNESCO/IIEP hosts a Wiki that offers a list of several portals, gateways and repositories. It offers a list of links to OER initiatives, resources and tools. It was compiled following the first IIEP discussion forum on Open Educational Resources (24 October - 2 December 2005). It offers access to a selection of approx. 30 repositories of open learning objects, mostly at the university level.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) Free and open resources designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. OER Commons OER Commons is a teaching and learning network offering a broad selection of high-quality Open Educational Resources, OER, that are freely available online to use and, in most cases, to adapt to support individualized teaching and learning practices.

Open Courseware Directory (OCD) OpenCourseWare Finder.