Ambitious-Minds-7-tips-for-social-media-success-at-your-school. LearnersCloud Blog. Social Media Changing Learning: Eduardo Briceno at TEDxManhattanBeach. Ol Cat Teacher Blog: 15 Fantastic Ways to Use Flipboard. Flipboard is a phenomenal reading app for the ipad and was the big reason I begged my family to give me one for my birthday.
However, because so little content is really produced FOR the flipboard, you have to know how to add it. You only get two screens of content (for now) so use it well. To get Started... To follow these instructions, you'll need to download Flipboard onto your iPad. A look at what is on my flipboard.... Before we begin, let's take a look at screenshots of my two Flipboard screens.
The sources of information are printed in the top left corner of each board. Sharing from FlipboardBefore we get to the reading part, you can share content within Flipboard. What you can do depends upon the content source. But, Flipboard's "Button of power" is always in the top right hand corner of any screen.
Adding Content To add content, you just click on the blank gray square on your starting screen that says Add content. For educators, I'll recommend the educator link or item. Twitter as a Curation Tool I have written and spoken extensively about the use of Twitter in education: In addition to the above mentioned uses of Twitter, I am increasingly becoming aware of the importance of Twitter as a CURATION tool for me. The term “curation” in itself has become quite popular recently. I am not sure yet, if it is another term destined to become a victim of talking at cross purposes among the educational community.
Mike Fisher has blogged about curation and what it means versus the concept of collection. Collecting is what kids do when asked to find resources for a particular topic. Usually, it represents the first 3 or 4 hits on a Google search, without meaning, discernment, or connections.Curating is different. It’s the Critical Thinker’s collection, and involves several nuances (see Figure 1) that separate it as an independent and classroom-worthy task. Mike created the following image to point out the continuum from collecting to curating Download Twitter as a Curation Tool as a pdf file. Ex.