Image sharing websites have taken the digital world by storm

Dear All

I wondered if the below may be of interest to you ?

Thanks
Punam

Pinterest, Image Sharing Websites and the Law

‘Image sharing websites have taken the digital world by storm.’ Pinterest is one of the most popular image sharing websites. It allows individuals to set up an online profile where they can post personal information, upload photographs, pin images sourced from other websites and organise the material in virtual pinboards which are available publicly. Jisc Legal has published a paper and video on Pinterest, Image Sharing Websites and the Law. The resources will help staff to understand the legal considerations when using an image sharing social network. Click on the image below to view the full video introduction. For the original paper please visit http://jiscleg.al/Pinterest Please send us your comments and questions by email to – info@jisclegal.ac.uk

So Far So Good
I have now allocated 8 resources, Go Animate, Job Match, Morguefile, Open Culture, Practical Aptitude Tests, Quizlet, Remember the milk and Google calendar.

A member of staff has informed me that she has used Quizley successfully in many of her lessons - so a good one for everyone else to try.

I looked into Google Calendar which I found very similar to Microsoft Outlook Calendar with the additional feature of text message alerts which is a great tool if you are one of those people who find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Useful for me for things like kids dental appointments.  Easy to set up and use. Will continue to investigate the ease of sharing diary entries with other people.

What to do..? Who knows...

There'll be a lot going on right bang in the middle of this trial. Perhaps that'll give you an idea for something to do with the tools!

And all your trial blogs need to be done before someone else returns to our screens at the end of March!

And another poll...

This one's a Google Form. No limits (well, things get tricky after 40,000 responses). Not as pretty and no SMS voting but it works.

Now let's try a poll...

This was created with PollEverywhere. One problem is that my free account only allows 40 responses so I guess this wouldn't be much good for big surveys but perfectly adequate for classes voting just once each time (or for things that don't attract much interest like By-Elections and whether Scotland should be independent.)


You should be able to see results in a chart after voting too. If you didn't want to put the form in a blog or on a web page then you can just provide a link to the PollEverwhere hosted version. The presentation and chart version is good in class because you can show it on a screen and see it updating live.

And another...

This is a sample of a web site created using Wix. Again, it has not taken very long at all, and most of that time was spent trying to find the images!

One idea for making a web site...

As one of the people who'll be helping some participants with this project, I thought I'd better make sure I can practise what I preach!

One of the tools is, of course, Blogger which these pages have been published with. There are lots of options within this tool itself and it can just be used to make something like a web site. To illustrate this, I have just put a sample together in about 10 minutes which you can see at this link. Unlike lots of traditional web site tools, as well as making something like this, you can edit and update it too without needing specialist help or software.

It includes a form too on the Contact page which uses Google Forms. How to do that bit isn't quite as obvious as the text and pictures so I will be adding some notes on that site in a while for anyone that wants to experiment.

I'm also making examples using the same content with some other tools and hope to add links to the results for those too later today.