#8 social media management

Social media is an important way to connect to friends, family and colleagues. I have facebook, twitter, google+ and linkedin accounts. One of the best ways that I have found for connecting to all of them is with Flipbook. It doens't allow posting to all at once, but I want to keep my professional posts seperate from my friends and family. Google+ allows this with circles, but the others, seem more complicated. 

I like the flipbook feeds because I can read things in one place and then respond if needed. 

I also like that I can access news of the world and in my field in the same place. 

#7 bookmark collection and saving

I have used Pinterest, but have not found it to be a great site. I like the visual nature of it, but like text more. I do know many teachers who use it often for ideas and classroom content. A service that I am exploring is Symbaloo. I have it on my iPad, but it is really designed for iPhone and internet. I am hoping that it will be upgraded for use on multiple mobile devices. What I like is that it creates pages of icons each for a website that I use often. I can see many uses for this in my teaching and at home. Students are used to seeing icons and will find the pages easier to use than lists of favorites. I am planning to upgrade the grade level links on the work website to use Symbaloo. It will be neater and, I believe, easier for the students to use.