You’ll know Pinterest, the social network which allows you to share and comment on visual material, which could be photographs, sketches, videos or web pages. It’s a visual scrapbook, an aggregation tool – and, usefully, there are no copyright issues either. In fact, sharing from other people’s websites is the whole point.

Content is organised around boards, split into themes. In education, you can use it to:

• Compile content – words, pictures, audio, video…
• Organise and store ideas
• Connect and comment on students’ work
• Make connections with other teachers and get ideas for future projects
• Create group projects: community boards can be perfect for collaborative projects

To understand how to get the best from Pinterest, this, from WorldWideLearn, is as handy a graphic as you’ll see, on how and where to deploy it best.