When working on multimedia projects in class, students will definitely need to have recourse to a wide range of resources such as images, video clips, audio and musical recordings to mention a few. Of course the web is the ultimate storage room where students can access these materials. However, there are regulations and copyrights that students have to abide by when using digital resources. In this regard, EdTech and Mlearning has already compiled a list …

Continuar leyendo: 3 Great Free Resources to Download Music and Sound Clips to Use in Class Presentations and Video Projects

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The popular audio recording service Audioboo announced today that they will now be called audioBoom. You do not need to create a new account in order to continue using the service. Just as before you can create audio recordings and match them to pictures online or through the audioBoom Android and iOS apps.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Audioboo Is Now Called audioBoom – Still the Same Great Service

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I’ve compiled a few tips so that you can all get up to date on what you might have been missing.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 10 Scoop.it Hacks You Might Have Been Overlooking

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The Top 100 Tools for Learning was compiled by Jane Hart from the votes of 1,038 learning professionals from 61 countries worldwide – in both education and workplace learning.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2014

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In the new Google Drive there is no longer the option to have Google Drive ask you if you want to convert your Office documents to Google Docs. This option is now on or off. I hadpreviously blogged on how to convert an Office document to Google Doc in the new Drive.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: New Google Drive: Always Convert Office Documents

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En este sitio todo el profesorado interesado en las herramientas de Google y Google apps pueden encontrar esa ayuda puntual que necesitan.

Continuar leyendo: Ayuda sobre las herramientas de Google: Gran sitio para docentes

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Escritor, novelista, periodista…Gabriel García Márquez, más conocido como Gabo, es uno de los grandes genios de la literatura del siglo XX y propulsor del estilo literario realismo mágico. Os proponemos una selección de diferentes recursos dedicados a su vida y obra 1.García Márquez: La página web del Centro Virtual Cervantes es una buena fuente de referencia. Entre los materiales disponibles, se encuentra ‘Cronología’ que divide en tres etapas los momentos más importantes en la vida, obra y entorno…

Continuar leyendo: Recursos para estudiar la vida y obra de Gabriel García Márquez

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In my post about using paper toys in video projectsI briefly mentioned a tool called JellyCam. JellyCam is a free program (available for Mac and Windows) for creating stop motion movies. In the video below I demonstrate how to use JellyCam to create a simple stop motion movie. See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: How to Create Stop Motion Videos With JellyCam

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Y es que Google acaba de presentar los temas personalizables para los formularios creados en Google Forms, permitiendo a los creadores de formularios modificar aspectos tales como las imágenes de encabezado, las imágenes de fondo, las tipografías empleadas en cada sección y sus atributos, etc. Además, se pueden emplear tanto las propias imágenes incluidas en los temas o, en su lugar, emplear imágenes propias.See it on Scoop.it,

Continuar leyendo: Google lleva los temas personalizados a los formularios de su servicio Google Forms

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One of the challenges of back to school time is that you’re filled with a classroom (or classrooms) of students you don’t know. The students you just spent the last year with know your style, understand your expectations and classroom rules. You know their personalities, learning styles, quirks, likes, and dislikes. That knowledge base makes all the other stuff that happens in your classroom (ahem: learning) a whole lot easier.See it on …

Continuar leyendo: 8 Effective Ways To Get To Know Your Students

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Siguiendo con el post anterior, y ante el adelanto por parte de Google, del despliegue de Classroom para todos los usuarios de Google Apps para Educación, al 11 de agosto, he decidido hacer un tutorial sobre el nuevo LMS de Google, ya que seguro que muchos profesores lo querrán usar con sus alumnos desde el inicio de curso.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Tutorial de Google Classroom

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On the occasion of the first back-to-school week, I compiled this list of excellent resources to help teachers make the best of Google Drive in their classrooms. I firmly believe that Google Drive is one of the elemental web tools with huge educational potential that every teacher should be able to tap into. However, the thing with so many of Google’s services is that their power and usefulness lies in their hidden features. The resources below cover …

Continuar leyendo: Excellent Google Drive Resources for Teachers

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Supporting new teachers in a way that’s relevant to their needs is important. I spent over ten years as a school principal, and it led me to become an advocate for actively supporting teacher practice. Observing teachers new to the profession allowed me to have a better sense of the day-to-day challenges teachers face and the skills needed to be successful. Now, as an educational consultant, my ongoing passion is to guide and mentor…

Continuar leyendo: 5 Back to School Tips for New Teachers

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Rigor is not established by the unthinking use of Webb or Bloom or other verbs. Here, for example, is a widely-findable chart I found on the NJ Dept of Education website, in which Webb’s rubrics have been turned into a leveled chart of supposedly-appropriate verbs.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Assessment Design: A Matrix To Assess Your Assessments

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The new school year has arrived for many and is arriving soon for others. That means that soon network printers in schools all across the land will be filled with papers printed and forgotten. Some printing seems to be unavoidable while other printing, like that 33 page Wikipedia article to capture two paragraphs, is completely avoidable. Here are some services that can help you and your students conserve paper in your school.See it on Scoop.

Continuar leyendo: Save the Trees – Try These Tools to Conserve Paper in School

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On July 31st, I had the privilege of leading a discussion for the Central NY Chapter of ASTD titled Digital Curation: Definitions, Tools, and Strategies. This blog post is being set up a follow-up …See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Digital Curation: Definitions, Tools, and Strategies – Resources Shared at #CNYASTD

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Google Hangout is an excellent service that enables both one-on-one and group chats with up to ten people at a time.Google Hangouts are not all video based. You can hold a hangout using only the textual chat functionality or you can add voice. There is also another great feature called hangout on Air. A Hangout on the Air is a Google hangout that is broadcast both on YouTube both through your Google+ page . It’s a great …

Continuar leyendo: Google Hangout for Teachers- A Comprehensive Tutorial

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ThingLink is an excellent web tool that allows you to create interactive images online. The images you create can come alive by adding to them text, video, music, and links. ThingLink has also recently rolled out a new feature, which is still in beta, that allows you to add interactive pinmarks to YouTube videos. These pin marks can be links to other videos or websites.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Teachers Guide to Creating Rich Interactive Visuals Using ThingLink

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Ejercicios,  actividades, fichas, cuentos, canciones … Estos son algunos de los materiales que podréis encontrar en estos blogs de Inglés para Primaria. Con ellos, el alumnado mejorará y adquirirá nuevos conocimientos relacionados con este idioma de un modo ameno y entretenido. 1. Hello Teacher: es el nombre del blog de los estudiantes del CEIP Conmeniño en O Grove (Pontevedra) y está coordinado por la docente Marta Maceira. Hello Teacher está recomendado para las aulas de Primero, Segundo …

Continuar leyendo: Ocho blogs de Inglés para Primaria

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Here is a great resource I have recently stumbled upon and never had the chance to share it here till this evening. A Questioning Toolkit is a comprehensive guide to help teachers, educators, and curriculum designers better integrate the power of questions in learning and instruction. See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: A Must Have Questioning Toolkit for Teachers and Educators

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