Pearltrees: discover, organize and share your stuff easily

Math Pearltree PearlTrees is a collaborative website to store thoughts, links, videos, and notes. Teachers can easily post an idea or "pearl" on a specific topic or a post a series of topics in a unit of study on their "tree". Using PearlTrees is an excellent way to collaborate professionally with other teachers in Ohio and beyond because all “trees” are public unless you have the premium account. For every “pearl” anyone can post comments and collaborate with other professionals. People can also join together to form a team so they can contribute to a common topic. Kip McGrath Professional Tutoring Leeds Here are recommendations for two online services or cloud services I am using at the moment. Under review for about 6 weeks, pearltrees is new to me but I’ve been using Evernote for a couple of years. Both are great for everyday use but there are particular ways they are good for teachers and tutors and for students. pearltrees (Free or Premium is $44 a year)

Pearltrees for teachers Year 2012 last post is a guest post from Finnish teacher Tommi Viljakainen. He is a teacher in Elimäki lower and upper secondary school. He teaches English, French and P.E. He is also interested in social media, iPad and the future of education. You can find Tommi also in Twitter under name @tommiviljaA (Finnish) teacher's dive into social media - "I discovered pearls in Pearltrees!"Tips for teachersThis time I thought I could write about Pearltrees from a teacher's perspective.

App of the Day: Pearltrees Finalmente anche Android può accogliere un titolo che era già disponibile per computer ed iOS. Stiamo parlando di Pearltrees, un’applicazione decisamente fuori dal comune che non farà altro che costruire una sorta di grafico che raccoglierà tutti i vostri interessi. Ogni persona ha dei propri gusti, ama ed usa delle particolari cose, ne predilige alcune rispetto ad altre e così via. Visual Social Bookmarking with Pearltrees Written by Mark Brumley Visual Social Bookmarking This educational technology post introduces you to the amazing world of visual social bookmarking. Combining a mind-blowing user interface with excellent classroom usability, visual social bookmarking sure to be a valuable tool for you and your students.

6 reasons to use Pearltrees Pearltrees is the first and largest social curation community on the Internet. It’s a place to organize, discover and share all the cool content you find online. However, beyond this basic definition, a question remains: why would I want to use Pearltrees? Well, what I want to share with you are six major use cases (or reasons) we’ve identified as being most popular across our entire community of web curators. In addition, I’ll also share with you a couple of interesting ways in which I have put Pearltrees to use for myself.

Pearltrees = Social Media + Mindmapping + Bookmarks Okay, so Pearltrees has been around for three years now, and I am finally catching on. Pearltrees is best described as a visual bookmark system that meshes social media with mindmaps. I was introduced to the tool by Debbie Morrison who blogs at online learning insights. Here is her Pearltree. The basic concept is that Pearltrees organizes bookmarks by type in a branching system. Pearltrees App Review - Web Content Curation Community - AppAppeal Pearltrees: What problem does Pearltrees solve