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Yapper Monday: Readying for Summer

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Quick Summary

  • Yapp shares a summer-themed Yapper Monday story centered on seasonal planning and app use.
  • The post highlights how apps can support communication and organization around changing schedules and events.
  • Readers looking for seasonal app inspiration will benefit most from this feature.

The sun is shining, mercury rising, and school is trickling out, meaning summer is hiding around the corner. These Yappers are prepared, preempting the summer brain drain with simple and useful apps for family, friends and students.

Join the party and get a head start on your summer plans!

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The Ranieri Family is getting ready for their Christmas in July with this “Save the Date” -like app. As the summer progresses, the family can communicate with the app’s News Feed, add pictures with the new Crowd Pics page, and see the schedule of events as it’s put together.

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A teacher at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes’ School in D.C. put this cool app together to make sure the third grader’s keep up with their summer reading. It features a list of great fiction and nonfiction books to keep their young brains pumping through the summer.

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The Olathe College Church in Kansas is keeping their community in the loop about all the summer goings-on. A schedule of events and service opportunities accompany trip information, pictures and a feed for sharing experiences. 

Yapper Monday: Education Central

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Quick Summary

  • Yapp features an education-focused community story showing how apps support schools and learning groups.
  • The post highlights mobile communication as a practical tool for organizing educational experiences.
  • Educators and school communities will benefit most from this example.

We’ve had teachers, students, professors and principals all creating Yapps to keep in touch with their communities. Today, we were highlighted by MiddleWeb contributor Michael Fisher as a tool educators can use to let kids “own the learning,” so we’ve decided to highlight a few of our Yappers who are keeping up with classes and communities with their awesome apps.

If you’d like your Yapp to be featured on this blog, in press mentions, on our homepage, or in our email newsletters, please fill out this brief form: http://bit.ly/RN9R6R

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The public safety department at Edgecome Community College in North Carolina put together a Yapp to keep the community informed about the EMS, Fire, Law, K9 and CPR training classes that the college offers. There is a detailed schedule of the classes, a news feed for instant updates and a gallery of previous classes, encouraging new students to sign up.

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All the way from New South Wales, Australia, the Bogangar Public School put together a great Yapp for parents and for those looking at enrolling, including information on the school’s uniform shop and healthy canteen, bell times and school events, plus information on the city of Bogangar.

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A professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, made an app for each of her library science courses for the semester. This one, for her Children’s Literature course, works like an interactive syllabus with a schedule of assignments, Twitter feed of extras, and a gallery showing each of the books the students will read. (If only it had an alarm clock that would make sure they were in class by 8 a.m….)