Thing 15

I read through the INFOGRAPHS HUB app "getting started" - the app basically just gives you ideas for what you can create.

I read through the VISUALIZE app "getting started." This app has lots of potential. I watched the 8 minute video - so many possibilities. I sent away for my free stickers but they never came. One is really limited on how creative a homemade infograph can be with this app if you don't pay the $.99.

I started an infograph but did not have enough "tools" to finish it or do it right. Maybe on day...

Thing 14

OK. I read through the VINE app description and how-to and decided not to get that app at this time.

I did get the SOCIALCAM app and practiced with it here at home for awhile. This app I have plans for. I would like to have kids at school re-write in their own words and perform readers' theatre for some chosen picture books and even longer fiction. I have been reading From Children's Literature to Readers Theatre by Poe and love her ideas to make Readers Theatre very creative and personal.

I will have my iPhone movie camera at the ready with SocialCam. This will be a great way to post the finished video on our school FaceBook page.

Creative Commons License Example

http://www.mypeoplestickers.com/adventure-boy
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Thing 13

I spent a lot of time learning how to use the Haiku Deck app. I love it because I will be teaching my students the annual lesson on Creative Commons soon and this app is so perfect for them to see the advantages of sharing/using photos appropriately on the web. Here is my presentation:
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app

Thing 12

This Audiobooks app is a gold mine for me! I listen to "billions" of audiobooks every year. Now with this app on my iPhone I will seldom be away from a good story. I started up The Secret Garden by Burnett - and it keeps its streaming place for the next time I am available to listen.

I have a reading incentive program with the middle schoolers at my K-8 school. They need to "read" two classics and two biographies during the school year for an end-of-the-school-year reward. I can show them this app where they can find a great selection of books from those two genres - and have them ready to listen to whenever they want. Their book will be in their pocket!

Thanks for showing me this app!

Thing 11

Library & Reference

I downloaded the ELM app to my iPad. I chose to look up "wild rice" grown in Minnesota.

I chose to search by topic: Minnesota. I chose the Star Tribune for my database. I typed in my search term with quotation marks: "wild rice" Minnesota.  I chose to sort my results by "Publication date (most recent first). I noticed there were many articles recently about the pros and cons of wild rice co-existing with iron mining.

Pulling up ELM databases on the iPad is very easy. Easy to read, easy to navigate. It would certainly be a great benefit for students who have a mobile device to put the ELM app on it.

Thing 10

I looked at Snapchat. I read the blog on using it in the library.

To be honest this kind of app really doesn't work for me personally. I do not do any communicating socially online. No Facebook posting, no photo sharing except by email or text. I read through the app summary and "how to" but just didn't want to add that app to my mobile devices' launch pages.