Pinterest, a social platform to find and pin content

Description: Pinterest is a platform where users can find and share ideas or points by posting images, videos, or links to their own or others’ boards. Users can follow, like, and comment on other users’ pins; repin content to their boards; share pins on other social media; and embed individual pins on websites. Pinterest is free to use but requires signing up for an account to save content. It was developed by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp.

Evaluation: Pinterest is a valuable tool for educators to find, pin, and share ideas. While not specifically designed for education, there are useful educational communities on the platform, such as Teachers on Pinterest and Teaching Ideas for Pinterest. In these communities, educators can cooperate, get inspired, and share ideas for lessons, including lesson plans, worksheets, images, webpages, and apps, as well as develop themselves professionally.

Cost: Free.

Respect for privacy Privacy evaluations indicate how a tool handles personal data collection, storage, and sharing, including GDPR compliance and security measures, among others. The ICT-REV team provides them for informational purposes, reflecting our best understanding at the time of review, but assumes no legal responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of these evaluations and encourages users to conduct their own assessments: Medium. Pinterest collects user data, including account, location and device information, posted content and others. It shares user information with third parties for targeted advertisement unless users opt out of this functionality. It reviews user activity and messages to detect spam or suspicious behaviour. Pinterest acknowledges users’ right to access, correct, or delete their information. For EEA users, it states compliance with the GDPR. See more here.

Type Of Interaction: Group/pair work - outsiders, Individual work,

Content: Website/other users supply,

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