If you ever need to turn a file into a PDF — and you will — we have a solution for it.Often, the PDF is your best file format choice for transferring documents. Whether you want to make sure that your resume arrives with a possible employer with its layout intact, or you’re just looking to cut down on printer costs, the PDF format has a lot to offer.See it on Scoop.

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At one point or another your students have probably found themselves creating a slideshow presentation and struggling to find the perfect image for a slide. It happens to me, a lot. Fortunately, if you have an image that is close to what you need, Google Slides makes it easy to crop and edit that image within your slide. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to crop and edit images within a Google Slide.See …

Continuar leyendo: How to Crop & Edit Images in Google Slides

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Delivering a successful keynote or presentation entails, among other things, a great deal of confidence from the speaker/presenter. Practice, training and dedication feed confidence and provide it with the needed milieu to grow and thrive. Public speaking is, after all, a skill that develops through practice. In previous posts we covered some useful techniques and ideas on what it takes to create and deliver presentations that engage your audience and keep them focused. The actual resource we …

Continuar leyendo: A Good Visual on How to Deliver A Successful Presentation

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The quality of your Instructional Design Portfolio reflects the quality of your work and demonstrates it to anyone looking to hire or commission you. You don’t have a portfolio? Read this article to learn 7 reasons why this is a huge mistake that you need to correct as soon as possible.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 7 Reasons You Need An Instructional Design Portfolio

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An easy way to have students start collaborating is to use Google Slides. Do not feel you need to create templates for students for every assignment, students can and should start from scratch and know how to share.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Student Guide to Collaborative Google Slides

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1 Septiembre es el Mes de la Credencial de la Biblioteca. Asegúrese de que todos los miembros de su familia tengan una. 2 Tomar un buen desayuno ayuda a los niños a aprender. Empiece el día con un desayuno nutritivo en casa o en la escuela. 3 Hable con su hijo sobre por qué los estudiantes que hacen las tareas sacan mejores calificaciones. 4 Trate de encontrar una feria o un festival de otoño cerca de su casa. Planifiquen ir. 5 Sugiera que …

Continuar leyendo: Calendario con actividades Septiembre para hacer con nuestros hijos e hijas PRIMARIA PRIMEROS CURSOS

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You have to schedule meetings with the SME. You have to speak with the business executives to figure out the learning objectives. You have to know the target audience. It seems you have your hands full. Why should you bother to rack your brains and think of a story? Why would you need to tell a story in an eLearning course?See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: How Storytelling Can Improve Your eLearning Courses

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Are you or your students wearing your Apple Watches to school, and if so, are you using them as part of your curriculum? What about the use of digital textbooks, adaptive learning, collaboration with other schools or flipped classrooms? These technologies represent some of the cutting edge tools and trends in education. While some are being implemented now, regular use of others is on the (not to distant) horizon. We’ve scanned the gurus’ lists and found…

Continuar leyendo: 10 Emerging Education Technologies

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In How to Create ExplainerGIFs you will learn how to create animated GIFs using software that you probably have already. Through the guide you’ll learn how to publish and share your explanatory GIFs. If you need images to use in your GIFs, How to Create ExplainerGIFs has a section devoted to finding images appropriate for crafting explanations.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: A Comprehensive Guide to Creating Explanatory Animated GIFs

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How to select a Learning Management System that will really work for you? Is it about creating the right features list or we need to look a bit deeper than that?See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Sometimes I have need to make a lot of copies of a document in my Google Drive. For example, I have a template for creating badges in Google Draw. However, I need a lot of badges for my project. Manually duplicating the template 50 times is tedious. I wrote a script to accomplish this faster for me.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Making a LOT of Copies of the Same Google Docs

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The answer to these needs lies in the disciplines, competencies and skills of content curation. Effective curation requires technology and tools to find, filter and validate content at the speed of the real-time web. It requires knowledge domain experts who can interpret and add insight to the content they are harvesting. It needs people who can utilise the power of networks and networking to source relevant and reliable information. These are the emergent skills of the 21st Century …

Continuar leyendo: Content Curation Primer For Information Professionals

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Free for commercial use photography for your website, blog, app and any other creative need.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Barn Images – free high-resolution photo stock

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Cómo utilizar determinada herramienta TIC o sus trucos, información útil para el aula y para la gestión del centro, experiencias prácticas de docentes, recursos para utilizar en clase o en casa, reflexiones sobre la práctica educativa… En estas webs y blogs podrás encontrar todo eso y mucho más. ¿Cuáles sueles consultar? Periódicamente, iremos ampliando esta selección. CITA (Centro Internacional de Tecnologías Avanzadas): formación on line y presencial, talleres TIC, proyectos de investigación, iniciativas educativas para asesorar …

Continuar leyendo: 15 blogs con información útil y de interés para la comunidad educativa

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An excellent tool for formative assessment is Google Forms. Good formative assessment allows you to be quickly responsive to student needs. Google Forms gives you the data from students instantly after they press submit. Since all student answers are together in one spreadsheet it is easy to quickly get a snapshot of how the students are understanding.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Google Forms: Create a Formative Assessment Quiz

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Whether you’re a student looking to get into the film industry or a teacher looking for reference points to help your pupils, you’ll need all the online resources you can find.To make things a little easier for you, the film section of Tuppence Magazine has put together a list of the 25 best learning resources for film studies available online. It covers everything from film theory and study points to filmmaking, behind the scenes…

Continuar leyendo: 25 Resources For Teaching With Movies And Film

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Hay una enorme cantidad de talento escondida en diferentes páginas y redes sociales, profesionales que son capaces de crear verdaderas obras de arte sin obSee it on Scoop.it, via Recull diari

Continuar leyendo: Artistas en Internet, dónde y cómo encontrarlos

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We’ve all heard the phrase “content is king” but constantly finding interesting new content to put on our websites or share on social media is often much easier said than done. As much as we may know that we need to share a variety of content to keep things interesting, with so much content covering similar topics finding those nuggets of content gold can be time consuming.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC

Continuar leyendo: 5 Best Tools for Content Curation – The Experts’ View

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Creating great infographics need not be a chore, no matter if you’re a teacher or a student. Taking information and presenting it in an artful and visually appealing way has never been easier, thanks to Web 2.0 tools.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 9 Tools for Making Infographics in the Classroom

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Welcome to my list of webtools that don’t require student registration. This started off as a simple curation for myself and has ballooned into something that I never thought would get this big. And it is still growing. I started added comments to each link, but that is taking a long time to complete. Please bear with me as I update it.While I do try to verify each link on a regular basis, …

Continuar leyendo: Webtools: No Registration Needed for Students

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