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"To create your own Flipboard magazine you have to first create a free Flipboard account. Then install the Flipboard bookmarklet in your browser (Firefox, Chrome, or Safari). After you have the bookmarklet installed you can click it whenever you find something you want to add to one of your Flipboard magazines. You can also send items to your magazines from withing the Flipboard app as you read through your feeds. To do that just click the "+" icon while reading an article in Flipboard. You can create public and private magazines for as many topics as you like. For example, you could create a magazine about teaching mathematics and a magazine about school administration."

"What's the only thing better than Flipboard? Flipboard 2.0! It's a major new edition, with treats for everyone from the casual reader to the power user. There's more content than ever to enjoy, including a new partnership with Etsy. When you search, we instantly create a magazine out of your results. It's faster, more visual, and easier to navigate. And, for the first time, you can collect and save articles, photos, audio and video by organizing them into beautiful magazines. These can be private, or if you want to connect with like-minded enthusiasts, you can make them public and share them on Flipboard and beyond. Now everyone can be a reader and an editor."

""Second source" is more a journalist's jargon than part of a teen's everyday vocabulary. But with information so readily available via social media, the internet and traditional news sources, educators say news literacy - teaching students how to identify credible information and good journalism - is increasingly important. News literacy programs are expanding in classrooms across the country, with a growing nonprofit sector dedicated to the cause and new education standards that require students to read and analyze more nonfiction text. "

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""If we are not teaching the kids to use the web as a vehicle for enhancing learning and teaching them to be the filter, that's a dereliction of duty," Luhtala said. One good way to put students through a meaningful, rigorous experience of analyzing source validity is with an annotated bibliography. Students have to not only summarize the source's importance, but also evaluate its validity. Here are some data points Luhtala teaches students to identify."