Create a personal startpage with your most important bookmarks and RSS feeds. Easy to use, reliable and completely (ad) free. Read more…See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Rubistar is a great free web tool that teachers can use to create educational rubrics to use in class. By definition, a rubric according to Geidi Andrade, is “a document that articulates the expectations for an assignment by listening the criteria, or what counts, and describing levels of quality from excellent to poor”.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Rubistar excellent Tool to Create Rubrics for Your Class

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Tiki-Toki is a powerful web tool that allows you to create visually appealing and interactive multimedia timelines. This app is web-based and does not require any software installation. TikiToki timelines can include a wide variety of materials such as images, text, and videos (from YouTube and Vimeo or AVIS). What’s more, TikiToki now supports 3D timelines which means that you can both create and view timelines in 3D.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: A Great Tool to Create 3D Timelines in Class

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A girl meets a whale in captivity and through their experience she realizes it needs to be free. Created by Joey Cheers, Teon Simmons, & Fishy Thom. This short…Maite SF’s insight:Este bellísimo documental resume, en segundos y sin palabras, el sentido y la importancia de la empatíaSee it on Scoop.it, via Aprender y educar

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A partir del 11 de noviembre, la Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR) pone en marcha el curso masterclass ‘Enseñar con el iPad’ impartido por Gabriel Bailly, ADE (Apple Distinguished Educator) desde 2011 y consultor APD (Apple Professional Development) desde 2012. Este curso on line está dirigido a docentes que deseen aprender cuáles son las herramientas para sacar el máximo provecho a este dispositivo. Más allá de los aspectos lúdicos tradicionales con los que se asocia el uso de la tableta a …

Continuar leyendo: ‘Enseñar con el iPad’, nueva masterclass de UNIR

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Google Calendar is one of the best free web tools I have been using for few years now. As a teacher, you can use Google Calendar for a wide variety of purposes. You can, for instance, create events and share them with your students and parents; you can use it to share important dates and information with students. You can also create reminders about assignments and share them with your class, and if you have …

Continuar leyendo: Google Calendar Explained for Teachers

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Bloom’s Taxonomy Tools is a Google document created by NJ superintendent Scott Rocco and it features a list of 89 web tools and mobile apps that correspond with every thinking level of Bloom’s taxonomy. This work is a collective effort from different teachers and educators who have come together and crowdsourced ideas and tools to help teachers make the best of Bloom’s digital taxonomy in their instruction.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: New Bloom’s Taxonomy Sheet with Over 80 Web Tools to Try Out

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If you would like to create QR codes for your class here is a workflow that works for me.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Earlier this week I published a post about three good video creation tools. Magisto was one of the tools that I included in that post. The other two tools were WeVideo and Wideo. Of the three Magisto is the only one for which I haven’t published a tutorial at some point. To remedy that situation I created the short video that is embedded below.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: How to Quickly Create a Video on Magisto

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Para ello nos vamos a apoyar en uno de los complementos que podemos agregar a las hojas de cálculo de Google denominado EASY QUIZ. Con dicho complemento mandamos unos ejercicios y una vez que los resuelven, se le manda la notificación de qué ejercicios ha hecho correctamente y cuáles no con posibilidad de ver la solución.De igual manera, y para la resolución de los ejercicios nos hemos apoyado en LENSOO CREATE en…

Continuar leyendo: Crea ejercicios autocorregibles con Google Drive

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indMup is an excellent web tool that allows you to create beautiful mind maps. Mindmup does not require registration and is very simple to use. It is also integrated with Google Drive so you can save your mind maps straight to your Drive account. MindMup also provide a set of good extensions to enhance your mind mapping.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: A Good Way to Create and Save Mind Maps to Google Drive

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Alan Levine created a great tool for formatting Creative Commons attributions for Flickr images. That tool is called the Flickr CC Attribution Helper. In August I published a short tutorial on how to use it. This week Alan published a small update to the Flickr CC Attribution Helper. The update added a link to the CC license type along with the link to the image source.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Updated Flickr CC Attribution Tool

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If you are a heavy Google Drive user like me you would probably love the offline service it provides. This is a feature that, when enabled, allow you to access , create and edit your Google docs and presentations offline. This is particularly useful when you want to access or edit a document in a place where there is no Internet. I have already shared a visual guide on how to activate the offline feature on Google Drive …

Continuar leyendo: A Simple Visual Guide to Using Google Drive Offline

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Professional infographic designers rely primarily on a core vector graphics software program to create their infographics designs. The main advantage is that all the icons, charts, images, illustrations, and data visualizations are treated as separate objects that can be easily moved, resized, overlapped, and rotated. See it on Scoop.it, via Recull diari

Continuar leyendo: 5 Great Online Tools for Creating Infographics

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One of the best tools in the Google Apps suite is Google Forms. It allows any user on practically any device to fill out a Form. The user does not have to be logged in, have a Google account or even know what Google is. The data collected from the Form can be viewed in a spreadsheet and manipulated any number of ways. It is a beautiful thing.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Create a Unique Google Forms URL for Each Student

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How To Create eLearning Videos. 3 Easy Methods to Create eLearning Videos.See it on Scoop.it, via Recull diari

Continuar leyendo: 3 Easy Methods to Create eLearning Videos – eLearning Industry

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A couple of days ago a reader emailed me to ask for directions on formatting block quotes in Google Documents. This morning I created a video to answer that question. In the video below I explain and demonstrate how to format block quotes in Google Documents.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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One of the essential parts of the digital citizenship I have been long talking about in this blog is about digital footprints. Students need to know that whatever they do or create online leaves behind a trail or digital breadcrumbs that others can trace. This “others” can be anyone from prospective employers, to college admission boards, anything you do online should be vetted by a critical lens and if “you don’t want your parents to know about it then …

Continuar leyendo: 8 Steps for Students to Remove Their Digital Footprints

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Way back when, research meant going to the library, finding something in a book, and indicating what book you found the information in when you created your bibliography. The internet has brought a significant amount of grey area to the world of citations and bibliographies. Students need to understand how to distinguish relevant, reliable material from the wasteland of trash that otherwise litters the internet. How do you cite a tweet, or other social media post? Is that considered ‘…

Continuar leyendo: A Straightforward Guide To Creative Commons

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When it comes to creating screencasts on Chromebook, several of the popular screencasting web tools (e.g Screencastomatic and Screenr) are out of the list because they require Java and Chromebook does not run Java. That being said, there are , however, several alternative ways to for Chromebook users to create screencasts. Here are 3 of the best of them.Gumersindo Fernández’s insight:1- Google hangout2- SnagIt3- ScreencastifySee it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 3 Great Tools to Record Screencasts on Chromebook

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