Educational Web Apps

I decided to look at how school librarians use some popular social media websites. Which one would be best to use as marketing and communication to the stakeholders?  Here is what I found:   Facebook     Librarians post events such as book clubs, book fairs, and reading competitions.  They also post book recommendations, national days, advertisements of author events on social media or local in person, students participating in various activities, book read alouds by the librarian and the author, illustrations with insightful captions about the love of reading, school wide happenings, messages about posted assignments, student work, photographs of the library layout and décor.     There are usually not very many followers to the page compared to the number of students attending the school.  There are even  fewer likes to posts and not very many comments, usually there are none.     Advantages of using Facebook to promote the library:       ·          has the potential to re

For years I have visited specific websites on a regular basis to read articles or blogs.   I bookmark the sites and use this as a short cut.  Recently, I was made aware of feed readers  also known as   RSS readers .  I had no idea they existed.  This makes navigating to  my favorite websites so easy!  They are all organized right in the same spot.   My research just got easier.   RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.  RSS readers or feed readers make it  really simple  to  transfer, manage and organize specific websites to one spot rather than having to visit the individual websites from e ach individual web  address .  You  go to the one web address and all the other websites you frequent are all right there.   I set out taking a closer look at feed readers and discovered that there are several. Apparently in the past one of the most popular ones was called  Google Reader.  I am not surprised in this age of Google, but for some reason this app is no longer supported.   So, I h