FlipBoard

FlipBoard lets you create your own personalized “magazine” of stories gathered from around the Web and specific to your interests. You can use FlipBoard online or through an app on your tablet or mobile device.

When you first register for a FlipBoard account, you have the opportunity to browse and search through thousands of topics, including occupational therapy, physiotherapy, health, exercise, sports medicine, rehabilitation, women’s health, and more. There are also fun topics like sports, art, music, celebrities, and shopping. FlipBoard uses those topic choices to personalize your Cover Stories – news articles collected around the web on your topics from sources like PubMed, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Huffington Post, Forbes, CNN Money, and many more.

Looking at a particular article, you can click a heart symbol to indicate you want to see more like it; you can click an envelope icon to share the story via email or social media; and you can click a plus sign to add the article to a “magazine” or folder based on whatever criteria you’d like. For example, Read Later, PT, or Education. You can invite others on FlipBoard to collaborate on a particular magazine, share the magazine via email or social media, or even get code to embed the magazine into a website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The more you interact with FlipBoard, the more accurately it can personalize your Cover Stories.

You can also explore the magazines other FlipBoard users have created. Some are very timely – such as a Super Tuesday magazine – and give you an idea of what everyone is talking about online.

FlipBoard gets its name from the fun way you can flip between stories in the mobile app version. All of the same features are available on the app as are available on the web version of FlipBoard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swiping up makes the page flip to the next story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FlipBoard is a great tool to help you keep up with all the new information posted online each day. By following only topics that interest you, FlipBoard streamlines what you see, meaning you spend less time sorting through articles that do not interest you.

FlipBoard is useful in the classroom (online or f2f) too. Gather together stories from around the web into a customized magazine that you want your students to read and then easily share it with them. Or, groups of students working together could collaborate on a magazine  to share information for a group project.

I encourage you to give FlipBoard a try. I’m sure you can find even more great applications for this tech tool.