More back-to-school goodies. This time a collection of some interesting educational platforms to try with your students in class. These resources, curated by edshelf, are teacher-tested and can help you a great deal in your instruction. Check them out and share with your colleagues. EnjoySee it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: A List of Some Good Teacher-tested Tools to Try in Your Class

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The platforms below, curated from Open Culture, provides a wealth of free historical art works spanning different countries and eras. You can browse through the collections and see what you can get to use with your students in class.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 3 Great Resources for Free Historical Art Works to Use in Class

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The old adage that “you get what you pay for” seems increasingly outdated in the age of free technologies that provide real value. Like Google’s free tools and all the main social media platforms, Skype is one more free and infinitely useful tool that educators can add to their toolbox.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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So while Facebook is dead and buried for the cool kids, and the likes of Snapchat don’t really work for an institution, Instagram still has kudos as well as scale. If you want to be reasonably sure that the people you want are on board, then Instagram it is.So should a school use it? Should a school start to use the fastest growing, and already one of the biggest, social media platforms in the world…

Continuar leyendo: Why, and how, schools should be using Instagram

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Social media is a powerful tool for keeping in touch with friends, getting coupons and deals from your favorite businesses, and seeing what your favorite celebrities are up to. It is also handy in your classroom; platforms like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and others have the power to help you forge closer connections with students and parents and enhance the educational experience in your classroom. How can you make it happen? Let the following resources lead the way.See it …

Continuar leyendo: Social Media in the Classroom: 16 Best Resources for 2015

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Continuar leyendo: Great Platforms to Find Open Educational Resources.

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The great thing about Voice Recognition is that it is integrated with the popular cloud storage tools: Google Drive and Dropbox. This means you can easily save and export your transcribed text to your accounts on these platforms. You can also use email to share your text with others. Also, Voice Recognition ’uses Chrome’s Local Storage to save the transcriptions and thus you’ll never lose your work. There’s no need for the Save button.’…

Continuar leyendo: Excellent Speech to Text Tool Integrated with Google Drive

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In an earlier post I shared here today I talked about some useful resources to help teachers set up and run a classroom blog. As a follow up, I am sharing with you this awesome flowchart created by GCF Learn Free which maps out and the popular blogging platforms you can select to host your classroom blog.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Awesome Flowchart to Help You Select A Blogging Platform for Your Class

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Below is a collection of some useful educational web tools we have recently discovered through feeds in our social media network and most particularly through Graphite. The purpose of this collection is to introduce teachers to some newly discovered educational platforms that could be of some use in their instruction. The tools we have for you today span different topics and disciplines and can be used with different age groups.See it on Scoop.it,

Continuar leyendo: 6 New Educational Web Tools for Teachers

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Below are some good platforms to search for CC licensed or public domain videos to use with students in class. I invite you to check them out and share with us if you have other suggestions to add to this list,.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 3 Good Resources to Download Public Domain Educational Videos

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Graphite is one of the amazing platforms that connects teachers with technology. Graphite is a free website from Common Sense Media that provides reviews of the latest exciting innovations in educational technology, everything from video games that help students learn algebra to lectures they can watch online.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: A Must Have Resource for Finding Educational Sites, Apps and Services

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We started Scoop.it for a simple reason: back 4 years ago, we observed that Web 2.0 didn’t just bring all of us an opportunity but also created an expectation that would require new tools for busy professionals. With blogs, social networks and content platforms, you don’t just have a chance to become a media if you’d like to: you are now expected to regularly publish content. The content we publish determines not only how visible we are online…

Continuar leyendo: Introducing Templates, Embedded Topics, and WordPress Integration through Scoop.it

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Weebly is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects. I have been using this platform for sometime now and find it really interesting. I have also included in the popular ” 10 excellent platforms to create your classroom blog or website” post. Weebly is very simple and easy to use and and has a drag & drop website editor which is stunningly simple to utilize, and appropriate for use with students of all ages…

Continuar leyendo: Here is How to Use Weebly to Create A Website for Your Class

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