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August 7, 2016
Great for finding and organizing news but doesn't adjust reading levels for articles
News360 is really easy to sign up for, and you can sign up with an email address which is handy in case social media websites are blocked at your school. The design is beautiful, intuitive, easy to understand, and the articles are organized well. Also, the app improves the more you use it, as it's algorithm adjusts based on a user's input of a thumbs up or down. It is a handy and well done app, however without the adjusted reading levels for each article I'll be using an alternate.
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November 23, 2014
Great news-source for classrooms and individual use alike!
The great thing about using the News360 website/app is that students were able to access content that interested them while maintaining the integrity of a traditional news source. I recently switched from Paper.li to News360 simply because students can still log-in using an e-mail address and password, as social media is blocked on our school filter, rendering sites that use social media log-ins useless. Overall, using News360 was much easier than trying to obtain 30 copies of a newspaper, and provided a variety of reading levels -- something that can be difficult when using traditional print media.
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