This is an outline for a collection of apps and sites that make your life easier, more productive, or even just more fun. While geared towards an educator audience, apps in this slide show are not meant to be for curricular use but are more for achieving balance in your busy life. The accompanying Symbaloo can be viewed @ http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/yourlife-makeitbetter. This slide show was presented at the NEKLS School Librarian Summer Workshop in Lawrence, KS in July, 2014.

1. Your Life
Make it Better Now!
Lori Franklin ©2014

2. • Apple iTunes Stats:
• 2008 – 800 apps
• 2014 – 1.2 million apps
• Most frequent app downloaders are female
• Top 10 2014 downloaded apps are:
- Minion Rush Despicable Me
- Pandora
- Facebook
- Instagram
- Snapchat
- Google Earth and Maps
- Vine
- Temple Run II
- YouTube
- Candy Crush Saga (#1)
How many apps?

3. Life is stressful…

4. Let’s learn
about some
apps that will
bring you joy,
organization,
peace of mind,
simplicity, and
even fun!

10. Med Kharbach’s Pinterest Page
– a MUST VISIT!

11. Choose your
preferred
weather
parameters
(temperature,
precipitation,
cloudiness, etc.)
for any
upcoming event
and find out if
the weather will
be optimal for
your plans! 

12. Read an
amazing variety
of popular
magazines FREE
through an
agreement
between your
public library and
Zinio. Download
entire issues,
and read later
whether you
have wifi or not!

17. I entered the
information for
one bank account
and Mint pulled in
all of my spending
data to give me an
overview of where
my money is
going…

18. April, 2014
Two adult
children living at
home consuming
groceries. One of
them is trying to
gain weight to
get ready for
Boot Camp!

19. May, 2014
One adult child
graduates and
moves out. The
other continues
to try to consume
massive
quantities of food
for upcoming Air
Force adventure.

20. June, 2014
Both adult birdies
have flown the
nest (for the
second time) and
look at the change
in the grocery bill!
April $503
May $398

23. Wimp publishes five
videos a day. They are
appropriate for all ages,
and are always
fascinating, or
humorous, or touching,
or just bizarre. This is a
great way to not only
make you look at the
world from a different
perspective, but to also
share with students
when you have between
30 seconds and two
minutes that are free.