Social Media & Apps for Secondary Educators

Social Media & ApplicationsMeeting your students where they are

REBECCA KNAPPBusiness ProfessorBusiness Science & Economic and Workforce Development Division

Bloom’s Taxonomy of Social Media

Bloom’s Taxonomy for iPads

20 Most Popular Social Media Sites

Social Media ToolsFor college educators

Vine

•Create & share beautiful looping videos

Quora

•Question-and-answer website where questions are created, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. 

Slideshare

•Offers users the ability to upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios.

Foursquare

•A location-based social networking website for mobile devices

Newsvine

•A community-powered, collaborative journalism news website which draws content from its users and syndicated content from mainstream sources such as The Associated Press.

Classroom AppsFor college educators

After the Deadline

•Uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find writing errors and offer smart suggestions.

Flipboard

•To read and collect the news you care about, curating your favorite stories into your own magazines on any topic imaginable.

Capzles

•Helps anyone create beautiful, interactive, rich-media timelines online using videos, photos, text, music, audio and most documents.

Dipity

•Another excellent timeline making tool… •…and learning resource.

Go Animate

•Creates “do-it-yourself” animated videos

Google Goggles

•Instead of using words, take a picture to search the web.

Talkboard by Citrix

•Social whiteboard app for iPad. •With it, everyone sees each other’s

sketches live, right as they happen.

UStream

•Provides video streaming services

Pollmo

•Online polling tool to create surveys online

Storify

•Create stories using social media. •Collect the best photos, video, tweets and

more to publish them as a chronological report

SoundSlides

•Software for creating audio slideshows, a combination of still photography and audio recordings.

Four Alternatives to PowerPoint

Productivity AppsFor college educators

SuperNote

•Notes + Recording + Photos + Reminders•Auto-organized with color code/category•Perfect for lectures, meetings,

conferences, interviews, debriefings, brainstorming, quick notes, to-do lists, planning, and…

Springpad• Save what you love, organize it into smart

notebooks, collaborate with others and share it with the world. 

• How Might You Use Springpad?▫Save your favorite recipes - invite your family

to collaborate, access ingredients on the go▫Plan your next vacation - save hotel,

restaurants, activities, subway maps, etc.▫Save bookmarks for reading later ▫Build wish lists and shopping lists▫Collaborate with co-workers on a project

Mailbox

•Free email management application

Tools to Investigate

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celebratelanguages.com/tech

Core Teacher Apps

Core Student Apps

Inquiry Learning with iPads

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