We were lucky enough to have John Evans stop by our classroom earlier this week. Although our class was only fifty minutes long, and I was trying to balance listening to him and watching the women's gold medal curling match from the Olympics, There were a number of useful tips and tools I was able to learn from him.
The two I would like to focus on today are Flipboard and Zite. Both apps (as my primary use is on my trusty iPad) are essentially e-magazines that can be personalized by allowing you to follow specific categories of your choosing.
I spent roughly an hour on each site, flipping through the articles, playing with the customization and downloading storage apps including Pocket and Evernote. After the couple hours of tinkering Zite was the app that was left standing. There were two main reasons I decided to keep Zite (to which I will admit I'm an addict):
1. I'm a sucker for a nice layout. The two sites were close in this race, but I found Zite easier to navigate and preferred the page layout to Flipboard.
2. Zite allows you to give feedback of the articles you read in an effort to pinpoint exactly what your interests are. Both Zite and Flipboard allow you to personalize your newsfeed by choosing categories, but only Zite allows you to ask for more articles that are similar, or ask that similar articles be removed from your newfeed.
Here are some of the articles I found on Zite for you to enjoy!
The Flipped Classroom Explained
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/02/flipped-classroom-visually-explained.html
5 Reasons Your Portfolio Should Be Online
http://connectedprincipals.com/archives/10214
How to Protect Students While Integrating Social Media in the Classroom
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2014/02/how-to-protect-students-while-integrating-social-media-in-classroom-instruction-and-assignments/
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