Get ready to feel all the feels because this is amazing. APS teacher, Sonya Romero didn’t allow budget cuts to get in the way of helping her students. Sonya digs into her own pockets to provide food, …Maite SF’s insight:Me encanta cuando una alumna le da las gracias por enseñarle a ser feliz. ¿Cuantos profesores enseñan a ser felices a sus alumnos?See it on Scoop.it, via Aprender y educar

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Google Forms allows you to create pages so that all of the questions are not all on one screen. In some circumstances the questions do not apply for every student. If students answer no they are not participating in a sport the section of questions about which sports the student participates in can be skipped. If you are using a Google Form as a formative assessment quiz you can direct students to a page with instruction on …

Continuar leyendo: 5 Things You Did Not Know About Google Forms

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Google’s Blogger service makes it easy for teachers to quickly create a classroom blog. If your school uses Google Apps for Education you can make Blogger one of the services available within your domain thereby making it even easier to post on Blogger. One shortcoming of Blogger is that there isn’t an obvious way for you to moderate students’ posts before they go live on a group blog. The solution is to use the “post via …

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The real question we should be asking is, “What do we believe should happen after the end of the school day to help ensure that students retain what they have learned and are primed to learn more?” Any answer with the word, “work” in its name, as in “homework,” is not typically going to be met with eagerness or enthusiasm by students.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Homework vs. No Homework Is the Wrong Question

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As Alanis Morissette once said, ‘isn’t it ironic’. After years of struggle between teachers and students and the use of smartphones in school, new educational trends are actually encouraging the use of these devices.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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It is not a secret that I enjoy helping teachers learn how to use video creation tools with their students. Creating videos is a process that students enjoy because the final product is something that they can share with a potentially large audience. Teachers like video projects because students get engaged in developing and sharing their best work. At the end of the project there is always a question of how to share the work. If …

Continuar leyendo: Five Ways Students Can Share Videos Without YouTube

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One of the many things that we tried today in my Future Schools workshop was creating whiteboard instructional videos. Someone in the group suggested using those videos as layers in Aurasma that would trigger when students scanned a geometric shape. Even if you don’t use Aurasma to showcase your videos, whiteboard videos can be helpful in helping students understand a process or concept. Here is a handful of tools for making whiteboard videos.See it on …

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I polled some students who have been using Google Classroom and here are some tips they came up with for students using Google Classroom.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Researchers say the idea of teaching to students’ preferred learning styles has little empirical support. The fact that it persists may say something about our education system.See it on Scoop.it, via Aprender y educar

Continuar leyendo: Are ‘Learning Styles’ a Symptom of Education’s Ills?

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T.H.E. Journal asked educators for the most creative storytelling apps available, and we did a little digging on our own, too. The tools and apps we found turn students into novelists, artists, and moviemakers with each tool bringing its own powerful mechanism for transforming the traditional narrative–both inside and outside the classroom…See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 9 Creative Storytelling Tools That Will Make You Wish You Were A Student Again

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Google’s no stranger to the education space. Teachers have been benefiting from the tools they create for years. Every time Google adds a new product or tool to their offerings, teachers get to work figuring out creative ways their students can benefit from it.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 5 Ways Google Tools Can Make Education More Exciting

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EDpuzzle is a neat tool that allows you to add your voice and text questions to educational videos. On EDpuzzle you can search for educational videos and or upload your own videos to use as the basis of your lesson. EDpuzzle has an online classroom component that you can use to assign videos to students and track their progress through your video lessons. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to use the main features of EDPuzzle.See it…

Continuar leyendo: How to Create & Distribute Flipped Lessons Through EDPuzzle

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Connected Mind is a very good Chrome extension that allow users to create beautiful mind maps and store them in the cloud. Mind maps you create via this tool can include a wide variety of multimedia materials including : text, images, shapes, arrows, and you also have access to a set of multiple colours and fonts to choose from. You can create as many maps as you like and save them for free in the cloud storage provided.See it on …

Continuar leyendo: Connected Mind- A Good Mind mapping app for Teachers and Students

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Content curation is the process of collecting, organizing and displaying information relevant to a particular topic. Teacher content curation can be used by students and students can be asked to sh…See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Continuing the list of ways to utilize Google Classroom here are 10 more ways to use Google Classroom. Student Projects: Google Classroom allows students to attach multiple artifacts when submittin…See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 10 Additional Things You Can Do With Google Classroom

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Pixlr Editor is a great photo editing tool that you can use to work on the pictures and images you want to use with your students or in your presentations. Pixlr is easy and simple to use and works right from your web browser. It is also integrated with Google Drive.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Pixlr- A Great Google Drive Tool for Editing Pictures

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Here is a new interesting visual on Google search tips that I want to bring to your attention. The visual features 13 practical features that would allow students to conduct smart and time-saving searches on Google. We have already covered these and several other tips in previous posts here in this blog, but it would not hurt to remind our students of the rules of Google’s search game.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC &

Continuar leyendo: Awesome Visual Featuring 13 Important Google Search Tips for Students

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Social media is a powerful tool for keeping in touch with friends, getting coupons and deals from your favorite businesses, and seeing what your favorite celebrities are up to. It is also handy in your classroom; platforms like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and others have the power to help you forge closer connections with students and parents and enhance the educational experience in your classroom. How can you make it happen? Let the following resources lead the way.See it …

Continuar leyendo: Social Media in the Classroom: 16 Best Resources for 2015

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Good educational games are always a popular topic amongst teachers and parents. And students too, I’m sure. Here are some interesting learning games spanning topics like rocket science, computer programming, city building, and math.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Excellent Educational Games for Students

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Are you still wondering what Google Classroom is all about and whether you should start using it or not? This video explanation created by Amy Mayer is a definitely a must watch. Amy provides a concise overview of the current features of Google Classroom. She started with the things you can do with Google Classroom and used some examples of how teachers are implementing it in their classrooms; how it is used for assignments, how it…

Continuar leyendo: What teachers can and can’t do on Google Classroom

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