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14-15 MILI October (redirected from 13-14 MPS MILI October)

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RSS FEEDS & PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

 

October Videos

  • VIDEO: Online Productivity & RSS Feeds
    • Watch this video before we meet and write a blog post about what you learned. Please put OCTOBER VIDEO somewhere in your post title.
    • If you watching the videos from school, follow these directions:
      • Click on the link to open it in Safari. (If it opens in the YouTube app, close it. Instead, copy the link and paste it in Safari, because it needs to open in Safari.)
      • Select the button to override the block.
      • It will open up a new tab where you'll log in. Leave this tab open after you log in.
      • Then come back here and click on the link again.

 

October Poll Question:

Which tool from September do you find the most useful? (Select only one)

A. Google Custom Search

B. Plagiarism Proofing Assignments

C. ART Evaluation of Assignments

D. Research Project Calculator

E. ELM Databases 

 

Vote at https://www.polleverywhere.com/oliviamoris583

 

APP FOR OCTOBER

 

Flipboard

Your personal magazine. Add RSS feeds to it from newspapers, Twitter, blogs, etc.

Here is the Flipboard User Guide.

 

To access Flipboard from Safari - set up link: http://flip.it/bookmarklet

 

Internet usage

 

What are RSS feeds?

 

Using Flipboard

  • Flipboard User Guide from the Flipboard website
  • Blog post from Cool Cat Teacher on 15 Fantastic Ways to Use Flipboard
  • TO COPY RSS FEEDS ON AN IPAD:
    • Do NOT click on the RSS feed.
    • Put your finger on the RSS feed and hold it there until a menu appears.
    • In the menu, click on the Copy button.
    • Then paste that link into the Flipboard search.

 

Education bloggers & sites you may want to follow:

 

ADDITIONAL APPS TO EXPLORE  
 

Pinterest 

Pinterest is where you can connect and organize things by image. Put similar images on the same board and start sharing.

bitly

bitly allows you to save, search, and store your links on the go. Keep all your links to your favorite things in one place.

Feedly

Feedly is another RSS reader app to capture, organize, and store all your blogs and links. 

 

ASSIGNMENTS FOR OCTOBER

 

1) Add at least 10 things to your Flipboard account.

2) Write two blog posts.

 

BLOG PROMPT

Blogs should be related to what you're learning in the MILI program. They should be a reflection or examination of topics or tools presented for the month. For instance:

 

1) Write a post about what you think about RSS feeds, what you think about information and how it's arranged on the internet, how you think RSS feeds could help you or how they could help your students (older students), etc.

2) If you choose to use a tool other than Flipboard, write about that tool and why you chose it, how it differs from Flipboard, its strengths and weaknesses. 

 

 

 

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