Wondering how you can implement mobile learning activities in your course? Looking for some tips that can help you make smart use of smartphones (and other devices) in the classroom?See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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During the summer, you’ll want to improve your teaching and lessons, but how do you decide where to start? Your students! I use these three ways to get feedback from my students on my lessons, activities, and what I can do to improve next year.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Today’s selection features some very good Android apps that you can use with students to create comic strips and cartoons. The apps provide a variety of integrated features and tools to enable students to engage in creative learning activities while having fun. They can use them as a visual way to communicate with others by creating cartoon characters, sharing comics, and making storyboards. Check out the collection below and share with us if you have other…

Continuar leyendo: 4 Powerful Android Apps for Creating Comic Strips and Cartoons

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Below are three of our favourite web tools for creating picture quotes. You can use these tools with your students to create beautiful quote posters for your class. These picture quotes can be used as warm-up activities or entry events to project based learning. They could also serve as prompts to brainstorm ideas around a given topic or as educational posters to embellish your classroom walls with nuggets of wisdom.See it on Scoop.

Continuar leyendo: 3 Simple Tools to Create Quote Posters for Your Class

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Thinglink Classroom combined with Thinglink’s remix function can provide you with a nice way to build image-based review activities. One example of this is taking an image of a map and inserting questions on top of it. After building your questions on top of the image share it with your students and have them remix it to answer your questions. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to go about creating a map-based review activity in Thinglink…

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Edutopia blogger Maurice Elias explains how laughter can reduce stress and offers a handful of teaching activities to lighten up the learning.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Using Humor in the Classroom

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YouTube is probably the most used digital tool in classrooms all over the world today and lends itself for a variety of purposes ranging from short listening comprehension during classes to flipped classroom activities.Often it would be useful to have the subtitles (captions) available for preparation or follow up activities, particularly in foreign language classes. Unfortunately there is no option to download subs from YouTube directly. There are, however various workarounds. The fastest way is also …

Continuar leyendo: How to download subtitles or captions from YouTube

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Here are some Montessori-inspired winter activities related to snow, ice, snowmen, cold weather, and/or animals in winter.See it on Scoop.it, via Recull diari

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Here is a useful rubric I came across today on Edutopia’s Facebook page. “This rubric was used by teachers at Manor New Technology High School to assess student performance on a personal response essay and group presentation associated with a team-taught project.”The rubric is actually multi-purpose and can be used by any teacher to assess project-based learning activities. You probably have to tweak it to suit your own teaching situation. To …

Continuar leyendo: A Handy Rubric for Assessing Project-based Learning

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The generally accepted definition is that “Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.”See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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ost of us know better than to use technology for technology’s sake. The Shiny New Tech Syndrome is taking the world by storm, and with the added pressure of finding new ways to improve educational outcomes, we try our best not to be tempted. But there are some things–certain methods, activities, and tools–we still assume can be enhanced with a little computational flair, when really, if we stopped to question ourselves, we’…

Continuar leyendo: When Not to Use Technology: 15 Things That Should Stay Simple In Education

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Mocomi.com is a kids website for all ages, packed with educational content, interactive stories and fun activities that are all very visually stimulating.Maite SF’s insight:Mocomi es un nuevo y excelente sitio web, que nos ofrece una gran cantidad de contenido educativo y de entretenimiento para los estudiantes de primaria y secundaria.See it on Scoop.it, via Aprender y educar

Continuar leyendo: Mocomi.com – Where kids can learn, discover, explore, play and more!

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I just came across this interesting visual shared by Lowther Hall School and want you to have a look. The first section of the title mentions the SAMR model but I can’t see any REAl embodiment of the SAMR model within this visual ( I might be wrong ). But I like the different ideas it provides on how Google Drive can redefine learning activities. This visual features 12 ways Google Drive can redefine learning activities. Hover your mouse over these…

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Watch The Hokey Cokey and sing along to the song with the words on the screen. There are more fun activities, …See it on Scoop.it, via Aprender y educar

Continuar leyendo: ▶ The Hokey Cokey – Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs

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In today’s post, I am sharing with you some great web tools that you can use with your students in class to create games. You can integrate these tools in different learning tasks. You can, for instance, use them for end of school year review projects or as a way to boost the textbook activities.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Good Web Tools to Create Educational Games for Your Class

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As I have just been working on my 2014 professional planning for my new position, and reviewing my performance in 2013, I have been thinking a lot about the best way to document my activities and e…See it on Scoop.it, via Educacion, ecologia y TIC

Continuar leyendo: La importancia de tu ePorfolio

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In previous posts in this series I talked about the concept of a Learning Flow, as a continuous stream of social micro-learning activities, and explained how the user experience differs from being …See it on Scoop.it, via Educacion, ecologia y TIC

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Por Richard de Meij | An eMagazine with Fun, Interactive QR-Code Activities/Project Ideas & Resources for the 21st Century ClassroomSee it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Find free PE warm up and cool down teaching ideas, activities and resources for your primary and secondary classroom.Maite SF’s insight:Gran cantidad de recursos, ideas, y actividades relacionados con la Educación Física para utilizar en el aula de primaria.See it on Scoop.it, via Aprender y educar

Continuar leyendo: PE – Warm-up / Cool-down Teaching Ideas

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A key element to ensuring any successful pedagogy is student engagement.However, keeping students motivated and actively involved can be difficult. Besides the basic challenges of maintaining students’ interest and participation in class, today’s teachers also have to deal with growing numbers of students and the increased distraction from smart phones and other personal devices.One good way to keep students engaged in the learning process is by varying class exercises to include a combination of lectures, individual…

Continuar leyendo: A Primer On Using Games To Teach

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