After yesterday’s post about making the most of Google Keep I received a few emails from readers wanting to know a bit more about how Google Keep works. To answer those questions I recorded the short video that you see embedded below (click here if you cannot see the video).See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: How to Create, Edit, and Share Notes on Google Keep

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Last week I shared a new service called Riddle that enables you to quickly create image-based polls and quizzes. In the video embedded below you can see just how easy it is to create a poll or quiz on Riddle.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: How to Create Image-based Quizzes and Polls on Riddle.com

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Here are some helpful tips we pulled out from our Gmail Tips archive to share with you today. These tips are meant to help you enhance your productivity and make the best of your gmail experiences. Let us know what you think of them.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 5 Useful Gmail Tips for Teachers

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Last week I shared Canva’s thirty design tutorials and lesson plans that incorporate designing infographics, comics, and other visuals. Today, Canva released a new video tutorial that covers just the basics of creating designs and downloading them from Canva. If you’re the type of person who prefers to just jump into a tool rather than work through a long series of tutorials, this video is for you.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Getting Started With Canva – A Quick Guide to Creating Visuals

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Cometdocs is a service for quickly converting documents and sharing them with others. Cometdocs will convert your documents to and from Word, PDF, and Excel. When you use Cometdocs to convert a document you can share directly with others via email. After converting your documents Cometdocs also gives you a public URL that you can post for others to use to download your document.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Cometdocs – PDF to Word and Many Other Conversions

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In response to requests from some of our readers here in EdTech & mLearning, we have curated this list featuring 10 Android apps for taking notes. The titles included here are among the best and most popular apps in this category. Again, our review criteria are based primarily on things such as users feedback, number of installs, and content rating.Some of the things you can do with the apps below include: capture a quick note, create reminders for…

Continuar leyendo: 10 Of The Best Android Note Taking Apps for Teachers and Students

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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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In this wonderful video Google engineers Liu and Merrified share some interesting tips and insights on how to effectively search your Gmail and Drive.The purpose is to enable you to tap into some hidden gems that will allow you to search for what you need in Gmail or Drive quickly and accurately.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Great Tips on How to Effectively Search Gmail and Google Drive

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Looking for some interesting free documentaries to use in your class or probably use for your own professional and intellectual growth? This list from Open Culture has you covered. It features around 200 free documentaries spanning a wide range of topics from history to arts and science. All of these documentaries are provided with a short description about their content together with a link to the page where you can watch them and read more about the …

Continuar leyendo: 200 Free Educational Documentaries for Teachers

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Folders allow you to organize your files in Google Drive. They also allow you to more efficiently share a collection of documents. If you’ve switched to the new Google Drive you can create a folder by clicking on the reddish “NEW” button and choosing folder. The “Create” button provides the same options if you have not switched over.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 10 Tips for Folders in Google Drive

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In this article, I’ll share some tips on how you can create eLearning deliverables that turn even the most passive learners into engaged, excited, and motivated ones who achieve profound change thanks to your eLearning course. Read the following tips to engage passive learners in eLearning converting your eLearning course into a memorable experience.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 6 Tips To Engage Passive Learners In eLearning

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Last night I received an email from someone who had a question about sharing Tweets. She had seen my post about QR codes in which I shared a Tweet that had a picture in it. She wanted to do the same to share on her classroom blog the Tweets that parents and students sent during and about a school event (I think that’s a great idea). The process is rather easy and I demonstrate it in…

Continuar leyendo: How to Embed a Tweet Into a Blog Post

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Sin duda alguna, una de las cuestiones que más confunden a los usuarios al momento de descargar software desde Internet es que no saber en realidad cual es la verdadera diferencia entre shareware y freeware. SI bien son términos que están relacionados íntimamente con las descargas de software, no está demasiado claro, por lo menos para los usuarios nóveles, los alcances y limitaciones de cada tipo de licencia.See it on Scoop.it, …

Continuar leyendo: ¿Que es Shareware y Freeware?

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While the Internet has given educators access to a steady supply of Open Educational Resources, the educational rubrics commonly shared on the Web are generally in the form of static, non-semantic presentational documents or in the proprietary data structures of commercial content and learning management systems.With the advent of Semantic Web Standards, producers of online resources have a new framework to support the open exchange of software-readable datasets. Despite these advances, the state of the art of…

Continuar leyendo: [PDF] An ontology for Open Rubric on the web

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El portátil, la tableta, el smartphone… El número de dispositivos que los docentes (y alumnos) utilizan en el día a día es cada vez mayor. Y en todos ellos se guardan archivos, contenidos multimedia e información importante. ¿Cómo hacer para acceder a ellos independientemente del equipo que estemos utilizando? Una de las soluciones es la nube, aunque tiene sus limitaciones en cuanto al espacio. Por eso resulta de utilidad un sistema como Toshiba Canvio Aerocast: …

Continuar leyendo: Análisis: Toshiba Canvio AeroCast, un disco duro inalámbrico para todo

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Según Antena 3, la serie Allí abajo, protagonizada por María León y Jon Plazaola ha registrado el mejor dato de estreno de los último 10 años: más de 6 millones de espectadores. La audiencia de su segundo episodio no es tan buena, pero sigue acumulando a más de 4.600.000 personas, un 22,7% del share. Esta perdida de audiencia se debe a que esta semana la comedia cela productora Plano a plano se enfrentó a los estrenos de la tercera temporada de MasterChef en La1 …

Continuar leyendo: ¿Eres parte de los 4 millones de españoles que sigue Allí abajo?

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Parapara Animation is a free animation creation tool developed and hosted by Mozilla. The tool is easy to use and it does not require registration in order to use it. To get started simply visit the Parapara Animation website, select a digital crayon, then start drawing. Click the large “+” icon in the top of the screen to add a new frame to your animation. You can playback your frames at any time in the creation process. When you’re…

Continuar leyendo: Parapara Animation – Create Stopmotion Animations in Your Browser

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No es imprescindible pensar al community manager y al “curator” como figuras aisladas. Como veréis, pueden ser funciones compatibles y sobre todo trabajar de forma coordinada.El término se atribuye en el ámbito del marketing a Rohit Bhargava, aunque desde la educación hace tiempo que se habla y se trabaja a partir de las características o funciones de este tipo de figura. De hecho, el rol es explícito en textos de …

Continuar leyendo: Content curator, Intermediario del conocimiento: nueva profesión para la web 3.0

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Are you an educator who is thinking about taking the plunge into using Twitter in your classroom? Many of us think of Twitter as a place to share pictures of our latest meal or as the place where industry gurus post their greatest observations. It’s common to wonder: how can we use Twitter in a meaningful way—especially in a classroom?See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: How to Use Twitter for Teaching and Learning

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Organic reach and engagement are declining on social networks. Here’s how to share curated content with images for more clicks to your website.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: How to share curated content with images to boost engagement

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