Flipboard: Create your own magazine

As a teacher you often read interesting things about your field, but sometimes it is too short a day to process all that information in your lessons. You can give articles or send students the link, but that is not very useful. What if you could present all that current information in a well-organized magazine?

You can do that with Flipboard , but you must have a mobile device (smartphone or tablet) to create an account via the app (Android, iOS, Windows, Kindle). Strangely enough, that doesn't happen over the web. Once registered, you can log in online to the Flipboard editor .

This allows you to create magazines via the app or the online editor.
Click on 'Create magazine' and give the magazine an attractive title + description. Place it in the appropriate category and choose whether you want to keep it private or public.

Now you only need reading material to upholster your magazine. To do this, add the Flipboard bookmarklet to your browser. You drag the button to the bookmarks bar and there you will see a button appear with '+ Flip it'. Whenever you read an interesting article, you can click on it and choose which magazine you will add the text to. That happens automatically.

You can also add photos (Flickr, Pinterest, …), audio (Soundcloud) and video (YouTube, Vimeo) to your magazine. In the editor you choose which story will be the 'cover story'. By dragging articles you also determine the order in which they appear in the magazine, Flipboard itself provides a layout. You can delete articles by clicking on the trash can.

The editor offers the possibility to invite people to contribute to your magazine via 'Invite contributors'. This means that you can run a magazine with several teachers, but you could also have groups of students work together on specific themes.

You can distribute your magazine via email and social media. Readers can also subscribe. In the overview for each magazine, you also receive information about how many articles your magazine contains, how many different readers have viewed it and how many articles they have copied (Flips).