If there is one thing that holds teachers back from engaging technology more it is a lack of comfort with that technology. This Flipboard is a dream come true if you have colleagues who do not know what they are looking at when you show them a Twitterstream or your list of Blogposts from Google Reader. Those colleagues do understand magazines. Your Twitterstream and Google Reader posts now will have meaning to those colleagues. The content has been turned into a non-techie format, so they might accept it more readily. Ironically, we use technology to hide the technology. Maybe that explains the unfulfilled promise of flying cars. People are comfortable with cars, but they are unfamiliar and uncomfortable with airplane stuff. Hence, no Flying cars!

I see the way technology is manipulating the content to be more familiar to people as a good thing. One of the big stumbling blocks with involving all teachers with technology is a lack of comfort with the unfamiliar on the part of many teachers. Converting RSS feeds to a magazine format creates a familiar platform as well as up to the minute content for consideration and reflection. Maybe one day it will come to the screen on the dashboard of our Flying Cars.