This document provides an overview of various social media tools, classroom apps, and productivity apps that educators can use to engage students. It lists platforms for creating and sharing videos, photos, presentations, polls, timelines and stories. Apps are presented for taking notes, organizing information, email management and collaboration. Resources are included for investigating additional educational technology tools. The document aims to help educators meet students in online spaces and utilize different applications to support teaching and learning.

1. Social Media & Applications
Meeting your students where they are
REBECCA KNAPP
Business Professor
Business Science & Economic and
Workforce Development Division

5. Bloom’s Taxonomy of Social Media

6. Bloom’s Taxonomy for iPads

7. 20 Most Popular Social Media Sites

9. Social Media Tools
For college educators

10. Vine
• Create & share beautiful looping videos

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

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

13. Foursquare
• A location-based social networking website
for mobile devices

14. 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.

15. Classroom Apps
For college educators

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

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

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

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

20. Go Animate
• Creates “do-it-yourself” animated videos

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

22. Talkboard by Citrix
• Social whiteboard app for iPad.
• With it, everyone sees each other’s sketches live,
right as they happen.

23. UStream
• Provides video streaming services

24. Pollmo
• Online polling tool to create surveys online

25. Storify
• Create stories using social media.
• Collect the best photos, video, tweets and more
to publish them as a chronological report

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

27. Four Alternatives to PowerPoint

28. Productivity Apps
For college educators

29. 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…

30. 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

31. Mailbox
• Free email management application

32. Tools to Investigate

33. webjournalist.org/topics/tools

34. celebratelanguages.com/tech

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