Timelines are an excellent way for students to organize information for their own understanding or to demonstrate their learning. Tiki-Toki allows students to create free, interactive timelines on a topic of their choosing. In addition to free accounts, educational accounts are available at a heavily discounted price that allow for more advanced features. Timelines can be kept private, shared with a link, published publicly, or even embedded into websites or blogs. Students can also collaborate …

Continuar leyendo: Create Interactive Timelines with Tiki-Toki

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At the core of progressive pedagogy is the empowerment of students by giving them a voice in class and making them part of the decision making. Unlike traditional instruction where students are viewed as passive receivers of pre-designed knowledge, a progressive instruction is primarily student-centered and dialogic in nature. It views students as subjects with a sense of agency capable of co-constructing their own knowledge. This pedagogical stance is especially popularized by educationists such as …

Continuar leyendo: Some Excellent Web Tools to Give Students A Voice in Class

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Google for Education has some excellent resources curated specifically to help teachers make the best of their technology integration in their instruction. We have been sifting through the different materials featured in the Training Centre for Google for Education and came across these handy guides. These are resources featuring some interesting ideas and innovative ways educators are using Google products in their classrooms and curriculum. Here are the two resources that stood out to us the most:See it on …

Continuar leyendo: Some Great Educational Resources from Google

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To help you have a quick access to trending educational apps for Android, here is a list featuring some of the best websites that provide curated content specifically tailored for Android educational community. We have also added some of our trusted sources where you can find good deals on Android apps.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Some Excellent Websites for Finding Educational Android Apps

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After posting about the voluminous amounts of historical footages uploaded and provided for free on YouTube, we are sharing with you another excellent resource but this time for historical images. Internet Archive Book Images Flickr page provides over 14 millions of historical images extracted from 2 million Internet Archive public domaine ebooks.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Over 14 Million Public Domain Images to Use with Students in Class

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Here are three good Google Sheets add-ons to ease off your workflow and boost your productivity.Some of the things you can do with these apps include: adding columns and rows with a single click, manage feedback and grading for students, and create PDF and shared documents from spreadsheet data.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 3 Excellent Google Sheets Tools to Enhance Teachers Workflow

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Screencastify is an excellent screen video recorder for teachers. It is also one of the few apps out there that works seamlessly on Chromebooks. Screencastify is very simple and easy to use with no technological learning curve. Just install the app on your Chrome, grant it access to your camera and microphone for voice and video recording. Next, select where you want to store your recordings whether in your Google Drive or on your local desk…

Continuar leyendo: A Very Good App for Creating Educational Screencasts

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Sidetones is an excellent web tool for annotating web pages. It allows you to add notes to any web page without having to switch tabs or use a third party platform. With a simple click, a new sidebar will open up next to the page you are browsing where you can add and edit your notes.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Sidenotes- A Great Tool for Annotating Videos and Webpages

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CamScanner is an excellent document scanning and sharing app. It allows you to instantly scan any type of text or graphic and save or share them with others. Using your phone or tablet camera, you can take a photo and CamScanner will automatically enhance the scanned results so you can easily email, print, fax or share them in PDF or PNG format.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: CamScanner- A Great App for Scannig, Editing and Sharing Docs

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Pear Deck is a nice app that allows you to plan and build interactive presentation decks directly from your Google Drive. One distinctive feature of Pear Deck is that it includes some amazing formative assessment tools that allows you to engage the entire class with a series of questions on the content of the presentation.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: An Excellent Google Drive Tool for Creating Interactive Presentations

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I created my first Twitter account in 2008. Four years later, I finally made the commitment to using Twitter during an edtech conference, where I found myself frantically tweeting, retweeting, and refreshing my feed as I tried to take it all in. Honestly, up until I used it at that conference, I thought Twitter was just another social media blackhole. But through essentially constant use for those few days, I began to see Twitter as an excellent resource…

Continuar leyendo: Teachers: Embrace Twitter for Professional Development

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Here is another excellent graphic on flipped learning that we want to bring to your attention. As you see below, “Flipped Learning: The Big Picture” provides a visual illustration of the concept of flipped learning in terms of what it has to offer to students learning both in class and at home.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: A New Visual on Flipped Learning

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Here are some very useful educational web tools we have curated over the last few weeks. These are EdTech tools we came across through posts from other edubloggers. As is the case with previous posts in New EdTech Web Tools for Teachers, we only feature the recent trending tools which we think would be a valued addition to teachers technology toolkit. See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 10 Excellent New Educational Web Tools for Teachers

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Google Maps is an excellent tool to use with students to develop their spatial thinking. Beyond getting driving or walking directions to the other, this tool enables students to discover the world right from their classrooms. It is also a very good way to teach students about geography concepts, distance measurement, map readings and other fundamentals of mapping such as longitude, latitude, locations and many more.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Some Handy Google Maps Tutorials for Teachers

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Search All is a cool web app that allows you to conduct a quick search on different search engines. With one click you can search for the same topic on a wide variety of search platforms that include : Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, WolframeAlha and eBay. You can also use social networking websites such as Twitter and YouTube to run your searches. The app works perfectly on Chrome and can really speed up your search process….

Continuar leyendo: Excellent Tool for Accessing Multiple Search Engines with One Click

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In today’s post I am sharing with you two of the best simple web tools that you can use to record audio clips. These web-based applications do not require any software installation and you are not even required to have an account to use them. They work right from your browser and they allow you to easily record or upload your audio and generate a link to share it with others.Gumersindo Fernández’s insight…

Continuar leyendo: Two Excellent Web Tools to Easily Record and Share Audio Clips

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Twitter is one of the best platforms for creating and growing your personal/professional learning network (PLN). The strength of this microblogging tool lies in its easy accessibility and its sweeping widespread among a larger and diversified base of users. Creating a PLN in Twitter starts with following Tweetors whose tweets can potentially be of an added value to you. A rule of thumb here is that before you follow anyone, make sure you peruse through the tweets they …

Continuar leyendo: 5 Excellent New Twitter Tools for Teachers

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Google Maps is an excellent tool to use with students to develop their spatial thinking. Beyond getting driving or walking directions to the other, this tool enables students to discover the world right from their classrooms. It is also a very good way to teach students about geography concepts, distance measurement, map readings and other fundamentals of mapping such as longitude, latitude, locations and many more.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 10 Excellent Lessons from Google to Help Students Better Use Google Maps in Their Learning

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Today I am sharing with you some excellent resources to help you deliver better presentations. These resources cover both the process of how to go about creating engaging presentations using different multimedia materials and also the various methods to use to hold the attention of your audience and keep them focused.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 3 Great Resources for Creating Engaging Presentations

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This Updated eBook is a Structured Like a Mini Flipped Class Workshop, With Dozens of Excellent Free Resources! As I write this, the Flipped Classroom hasSee it on Scoop.it, via Recull diari

Continuar leyendo: The All New Free Flipped Teaching and Learning Resources eBook (Available on FlippedClassroomWorkshop.com)

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