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.