Zing is a new service offering thousands of free fiction and non-fiction ebooks to teachers and students. On Zing you can browse for books by topic, language, or reading level. You can read the books in your web browser on a laptop or tablet.Zing is more than just a repository of free ebooks. In the Zing reader students will find a built-in dictionary and tools for taking notes while they read.See it…

Continuar leyendo: Zing! – Thousands of Free eBooks for Students

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Bam! Pow! Wham! These aren’t your typical vocabulary words, but you’ll see the sound effects often in the world of comic books and graphic novels. Many students, particularly boys (and lately, more and more girls) are reading comic books in their free time. Comics have inspired me, challenged me, and contributed significantly to my love of reading and the arts as an adult. See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Five-Minute Film Festival: Comics in the Classroom

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Text to speech technology was initially used on computers to provide help for those with visual impairments. Now with the advance of technology and the widespread of mobile gadgets, text to speech softwares are being used for a wide variety of purposes some of which are purely educational such as learning a foreign language, reading books out loud and many more.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 4 of The Best Text to Speech Apps for Android

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Esta recopilación incluye 20 páginas web destinadas a los estudiantes de Secundaria para la asignatura de Inglés. La parte teórica se combina con diferentes propuestas didácticas y juegos para trabajar esta materia de una forma más amena y divertida. Upside Down: Con Upside Down los alumnos de Secundaria pueden aprender la lengua inglesa además de todo lo relacionado con la cultura neozelandesa. Los estudiantes tienen la oportunidad de aprender el idioma mientras conocen las curiosidades, costumbres, geografía y …

Continuar leyendo: 20 útiles webs para aprender inglés en Secundaria

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Below are some excellent Chrome apps to enhance students reading experience. The apps provide, among other things, a clutter free and reader-friendly interface and eliminate distractive features around online articles and blog posts.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 3 Awesome Chrome Extensions to Enhance Students Reading Experience

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I was recently introducing some teachers to blogging when one of them said, “but they don’t even read our newsletter.” She was right, most of the parents and students probably are not reading the newsletter that the school sends out. My suggestion was to create a blog. I made the suggestion knowing full well that many parents wouldn’t visit it directly on a consistent basis. I suggested maintaining a blog because from it you can …

Continuar leyendo: How to Get Your School Announcements to as Many People as Possible

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Your classroom probably has a bulletin board. It’s the perfect spot to organize information and show off great work. Increasingly, learning is happening online, and so it’s no surprise that the bulletin board has moved online. Enter Pinterest. Teachers of young students are using the online application to find lesson ideas and stay organized, while middle and high school teachers are getting their students to use the app themselves for planning projects or collecting materials …

Continuar leyendo: The Educator’s Guide to Pinterest

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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. English 4 children today: Daniela Andrea Ayala, profesora de Inglés en el CEIP Santo Domingo de Guzmán, en Valmojado (Toledo), es la creadora de este blog en el que presenta actividades, vídeos, canciones, juegos… para …

Continuar leyendo: 15 blogs de Inglés para Primaria

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Education has traditionally focused on the basic “3Rs” of reading, writing and arithmetic. However, as the ever increasing pace of technological innovation drives changes in the world, educators must re-evaluate whether the skills they teach truly provide their students with the best opportunities to succeed in school, the workforce, and in life overall.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: The 8 Skills Students Must Have For The Future

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Social media is an ingrained part of today’s society. Our students are constantly on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and likely many sites we’re not hip enough to know about, and by reading this blog, you’re interacting with social media at this very moment. If you want to bring the “real world” into the classroom, consider integrating social media into your lessons.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: How to Use Social Media as a Learning Tool in the Classroom

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Last night Storyboard That sponsored a webinar on using comics in the classroom. The webinar reached capacity quickly and unfortunately some people who wanted to join the live session could not get in. The recording of last night’s webinar is now available to view online. I have embedded the recording below (if you’re reading this in RSS or email, you may have to click here to see the video).See it on Scoop.it, via TIC &amp

Continuar leyendo: Comics in the Classroom – Webinar Recording

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We are intermediate grade teachers who have learned over the years that there are practices that get kids excited about reading. We tried to rank them but decided they were all equally important. We can’t imagine eliminating any of them, so these are not in any particular order.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: TOP TEN WAYS TO TURN YOUR CLASSROOM INTO A HOTBED OF ENTHUSIASTIC READERS by Megan Ginther and Holly Mueller

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I have been receiving several emails from teachers from all around the world asking for back-to-school resources. So instead of responding to each one individually I make a post and share it with everybody here. I am also having a hectic life, extremely busy with my PhD studies and all the readings and research that it entails. I am saying this because I do find it hard to catch up with my mail and respond…

Continuar leyendo: Excellent Back to School Resources for Teachers

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Today I want to share with you a quick Google search tip that many of our students overlook and which can help them a lot in the enhancement of their reading skills. This tip is about refining search queries using the reading level.As you know, the strength of Google as a search engine lies in its advanced search features that provide users with a wide variety of options to help them hone in their …

Continuar leyendo: A Wonderful Google Tip to Help Students Search for Materials Appropriate to Their Reading Levels

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Mobile devices have become deeply engrained in our everyday lives. From reading to schedule management to entertainment to GPS, it is The Multi-Purpose Gadget in our lives and some have even said to suffer from the “phantom limb” syndrome without it! Mobile Learning, or mLearning for short, lets learners learn and get performance support via their mobile devices. This article introduces to you the unique features of mLearning, what it can be used for …

Continuar leyendo: mLearning: The Way of Learning Tomorrow

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Bring on the i. I just finished reading several books about intrinsic motivation. None of the research is new, so why aren’t we incorporating intrinsic motivation into the classroom more? Here are …See it on Scoop.it, via Educacion, ecologia y TIC

Continuar leyendo: Intrinsic Motivation for the Classroom – Infographic

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Games are ubiquitous digital activities that students , regardless of their grade level, engage in online. They play them on their computers, smart phones, with each other and with others they have never met. Several scientific studies published in this regard speak for the advocacy of game integration in education (see the list of resources at the end of this post). I have spent sometime reading some of these studies and came up with the list below featuring…

Continuar leyendo: 11 Reasosn Why You Should Integrate Games in Your Teaching

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TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading – through TED.com, our annual conferences, the annual TED Prize and local TEDx events.See it on Scoop.it, via Educacion, ecologia y TIC

Continuar leyendo: TED: Conferencias en video

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Continuar leyendo: Good Ideas for Using Augmented Reality in Elementary School Math and Reading

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Scribd is the world’s largest social reading and publishing site.See it on Scoop.it, via Educacion, ecologia y TIC

Continuar leyendo: Guía de botánica sistemática – Ed. 2006

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