Learning how to use image editing software can be difficult and time consuming. And, teaching students how to use it can be even more challenging. Luckily, there are several free, online alternatives to bulky editors like Photoshop.These slimmed-down editors allow novice users to quickly become comfortable editing digital images, and are also excellent stepping stones for students who want to learn how to use more complex editors later on.Gumersindo Fernández’s insight:1. Picadilo2. Pixlr3. FotorSee it on Scoop…

Continuar leyendo: Our 3 Favorite Free Online Image Editors For Education

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After posting about “Developing Critical Thinking through Web Search Skills”, today I am sharing with you this wonderful 7-page guide featuring some of the excellent tools from Microsoft to engage students in creative learning and meaning making in the classroom. The guide is completely free and is available for download from the link below.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Free Web Tools to Engage Students in Creative Learning

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Continuar leyendo: Excellent Web Tools for The 21st Century Learner

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Here is another excellent infographic on the different Creative Commons Licenses. As most of you know, Creative Commons (CC) is a licensing non-profit body that provides content originators with different kinds of licenses that they can grant to the general public to use their work. Instead of “all rights reserved rule” CC works as “some rights reserved rule”. Using CC licenses, authors of original content can specify the conditions, freedoms and limitations for the …

Continuar leyendo: Comic Poster- What Students Should Know about Creative Commons Licenses

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A few days ago Google released a few interesting updates to its Drive applications. One important update that I want to share with you today is called “Suggested Edits”. This new feature is great for collaborative work on Google Docs. Before, when you share a Google document with your collaborators and grant them the editing rights they can edit anything in it. But with “Suggested Edits” you, as the owner of the document, can control this editing process by allowing…

Continuar leyendo: An Excellent New Feature for Google Docs

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In a recent post I shared here a few days ago, I featured a list of three good text to speech tools for teachers. Today, I am sharing with you another list of handy tools but this time it is the other way around: speech to text. These tools will enable you to transcribe oral speech into text which you can then copy and use anywhere you want.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Excellent Speech to Text Tools for Teachers

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Continuar leyendo: 5 Excellent Free Interactive Tools to Boost Students Learning ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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En Twitter es hashtag del nuestro: # CongresoTICLEF ¡Participa! Organizado por Excellere excellereconsultoraeducativa.ning.comSee it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Uso y organización de los Entornos Personales de Aprendizaje (Pilar Soro)

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http://congresoedutic.com – En Twitter nuestro hashtag es: #CongresoTICLEF ¡Participa! Organizado por Excellere http://excellereconsultoraeducativa.ning.comSee it on Scoop.it, via Educacion, ecologia y TIC

Continuar leyendo: Creatividad en la prevención de la deserción mediante #TIC (Xiomara Medina)

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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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Continuar leyendo: Excellent Checklist for Evaluating Information Sources

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Continuar leyendo: TextCite, freeware para organizar y comentar citas textuales de publicaciones para su uso en tus trabajos

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