Social Media Smack Down

 

TripAdvisor 

This great site is perfect for travelers and adventurers! TripAdvisor offers a unique opportunity for people (such as myself) to plan the perfect getaway trip. It's not like other sites where you can book a hotel or flight and not know what your true experience will be like. The reason that this social Media site is so popular is because you can actually plan your trip from the time you leave your home to your desired destination. 

These plans can be a restaurant, a car rental, an excursion, museums, landmarks, or even your hotel of your preference.

The stats for the site are:  "TripAdvisor branded sites make up the largest travel community in the world, reaching 350 million unique monthly visitors**, and more than 290 million reviews and opinions covering more than 5.3 million accommodations, restaurants and attractions. The sites operate in 47 countries worldwide."-TripAdvisor

I have personally used this site for many of my vacations. The great thing about it is that people who go there give their insight into reviews and they will rate the experience which is very helpful for me. Trust me you don't want to be that person to go somewhere new and unfamiliar and not do your research! Its the worst to go to restaurant and not like your meal or had a restless sleep in uncomfortable place.  I frequently use this site and find it helpful when I want to experience a new place and meet new people and experience a life changing trip. 

Tech blog 6 CleanUp Dupes App

This week I went through a traumatic experience that I think we all go through often....Yes, I did say traumatic! And yes I lost my iPhone. The great thing about apple products is that the software on it comes with a "Find iPhone' app and you can locate your phone. So I went ahead and went into the app with another apple product except instead of tapping on the "Lost Mode" option, I tapped on "Erase iPhone". So I did find my phone but when I got it back my photos and contacts were all erased.  Once I synced my contacts back unto my phone, I had 1500 contacts that were mostly duplicates. Yes I had like 15 Carlos's and 10 Kim's, 30 Jessica's and 20 Mom's on my contact lists! It would have taken forever to fix that! So after searching for an app I found one! I thought I would share with everyone in case this ever happens to you.

Needless to say this blog is will touch base on an awesome app called Cleanup Dupes. It isn't a free app but its pretty reasonable for the price of $0.99. I got my sanity back and it took care of the dupes quickly. The app literally took 45 seconds to load my contacts and erase the dupes.
The app will scan your contacts and you will configure the merge level by 100% matches. After that it will run a scan in the dupes. It will present you with the results.  You can choose to remove the matches or merge only some of the selection of dupes. the cool thing about this app is that it works with Gmail and iCloud to keep all dupes contacts from showing on your actual phone.

Again this app can be very beneficial as it was for me!

Tech Blog #5 Zombies Run

So regardless of the reason, Zombies seem to be everywhere and are worth millions of dollars! The Zombie genre has grown to captivate the minds of video gamers, series/movies watchers,  comic books/magazines readers, and conventions goers. I am not quite sure when it all happened but one day this week, my coworkers and I were talking about the Walking Dead episode this week. Mostly about all of the "Glen Lovers" on our news feed. Somehow, this app was mentioned in our conversation. 

I thought it was the idea and worth checking out.  I have been really wanting to get back into running and I found this app to really be a twist. I really wanted to share it with all of you! This app is part game and part exercise. It allows a runner to be immersed in a post apocalyptic zombie world. So for those you who are Walking Dead lovers this would app will definitely be of interest to you.

Its really a great way tool that allows the runner to immerse your everyday running into a game. Its a great to see that the game does involve you in a virtual way. There have been great reviews to it:

BBC NEWS - “The only way to save yourself is to run for real.”
WIRED - “In the style of Runkeeper, with an exciting undead twist.”
LIFEHACKER - “A really cool way to get outside and exercise.”
CNN - “Turns exercise into a game - a terrifying, terrifying game.”
TIME - "Takes all the fun of a zombie game and funnels it into a fitness app.

I am really intrigued to try it out! 

TECH #4 INTRODUCING YELP

 

Yelp connects people with local businesses by bringing updates online and providing boards for businesses and consumer to use. Yelp is great site that provides local business and users with reviews. Yelp provides a platform for consumers to share their everyday local business experiences, through reviews, tips, photos and videos, and engage directly with businesses, through reviews. Yelp has a variety of communities contributing across the world that contributes the content on its platform. 

    I have used Yelp numerous times and I always find it so helpful! I was in NYC last year around the Christmas holidays and wanted to find a good place to eat that wasn't so packed, Yelp came in handy! We actually ended up going to a dive that was on the tv show Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. 

There is also an app for Yelp. By using Yelp you can find a place to eat, to go deposit money at a nearby bank, or even lookup hotels for a getaway. Hope it helps someone like it helped me! 

Great website Smack Down

 

I want to introduce you to a great website called Edutopia. The really cool thing is that this website is working to improve public schools with resources, tools, and solutions for teachers, administrators, and parents. I actually have used this website as a resource and as a great tool for learning.  I have learned so much about this website by using this as my smack down assignment in which I found to be so impressive and really admirable. Interesting enough Star wars is coming out really soon (The Force Awakens In theaters in December 18th 2015) and the film maker of Star wars George Lucas has founded this website. The George Lucas Educational Foundation is a nonprofit operating foundation. I am really inspired about his experience in school and I can say how he has tapped into a different worlds of digital age, innovation, and educational learners because of his experience in school. The vison and the mission that the George Lucas Foundation are dedicated too is really a great path that many educators, parents, and counselors should be on. 

 

Tech Blog 3

Easybib is great to useful took to become familiar with! There is a site and an app. EasyBib also offers an app for iOS and Android for citing sources on the go. It doesn’t require you to create an account, but if you do, it will store all your projects in one place, and you can add to it over time–if you are using MLA.  Using Chicago or APA style citation requires a paid account. When you enter a book title on the site, many citation options come up and you simply choose one.
 It’s a tool to help you with your bibliography. Its also helpful for an educator so that you can check to see if he student has their citations down correctly. 

 EasyBib is a very useful for student and an educator. It's an information literacy platform that provides citation, note taking, and research tools that are easy-to-use and educational. EasyBib is not only accurate, fast, and comprehensive, but helps educators teach and students learn how to become effective and organized researchers.

2nd Tech Blog

Tech Blog #2

If you have never heard of the Emaze, I will introduce it to you! Emaze is a great software that allows users to create amazing presentations. The great thing about Emaze is that its free and user friendly.  

Emaze is helps to create and improve your presentation. It will visually attract people because Emaze  makes your presentation look more creative and interesting so that your audience will still be engaged for your WHOLE presentation.

 Emaze is an online presentation platform is easy to use and fast to make.  It has many features. Emaze has really unique design templates. it has 3D video, slide or zoom effects. Emaze is a cloud based presentation software. it has multi-device access so you can get access on any computers, laptops, tablet or smartphone. It runs on any browser seamlessly with the power of newest technology.