your life: make it better now
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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.TRANSCRIPT
Your LifeMake it Better Now!
Lori Franklin ©2014
• 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?
Life is stressful…
Let’s learn about some
apps that will bring you joy, organization,
peace of mind,
simplicity, and even
fun!
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!
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!
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…
April, 2014
Two adult children living at home consuming groceries. One of them is trying to gain weight to get ready for Boot Camp!
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.
June, 2014
Both adult birdies have flown the nest (for the second time) and look at the change in the grocery bill!
April $503May $398
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.
