Google Classroom’s design is absolutely stunning. Following the latest design trends, the interface is simple, elegant, and free of unnecessary distractions, created to help the user focus on productivity. Google Classroom features some of the best tools teachers can use to manage and distribute assignments and class announcements. Also, it provides teachers and students with a safe environment to communicate with each other and exchange ideas and comments on educational content. Of course, all these perks come …

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This summer I spent much of my work time helping educators learn to embrace the power of ThingLink as a tool for Teaching and Learning. Along the way, I created a wealth of resources using a variety of formats to accommodate the learning needs of busy teachers. The resources created have been collected and curated into one interactive image. I believe they are valuable for personal learning needs, as well as for use during professional development …

Continuar leyendo: A ThingLink PD Toolkit of Resources

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From time to time I create PDFs to use in blog posts. Sometimes I do that because a PDF provides a better view of the content I’m sharing (see this post containing a chart for an example) and other times I display PDFs to make it easier for folks to print my information as I did with this post about ed tech tools that were updated this summer. I use Box.com to display PDFs in blog …

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La investigación sobre las lesiones cerebrales y las capacidades de los veteranos de guerra norteamericanos de la Guerra de Vietnam que habían sufrido contusiones o heridas de bala en el cráneo. Un…See it on Scoop.it, via Recull diari

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Seven questions teachers can ask parents at the start of the year with the intention of building a partnership to support their child’s learning.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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If you’re new to teaching, the end of the summer may bring more than chills from the cooler air. If it is your first time with a classroom of your very own, it can be a little nerve wracking. It is important to remember that every teacher starts out in the same place – new – and learns by doing as they go. And that isn’t just limited to the first year of teaching, either. You can …

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Over this weekend, I spent some time sifting through the piles of posts in this blog looking for materials and posts to help new teachers better integrate technology in education. The result is a list featuring some interesting resources that I highly recommend for any teacher planning to get their feet wet in the Ed Tech world.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Google Classroom is finally available for Google Apps classrooms all over the world. It has received a lot of attention in social media as well as in traditional media. Google Classroom, which has been developed in conjunction with teachers, works on top of Google Apps and provides easy and intuitive course management (homework, sharing materials, announcements and discussions) for teachers by doing a lot of work (setting up folders and sharing settings) in the background. Both teachers and students get …

Continuar leyendo: Google Classroom – competition for traditional LMSs?

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During a workshop today in Delta, Colorado a teacher asked me if he could import his Blogger blog into Google Sites. Yes, you can import Blogger blog feeds into Google Sites. You can also import the RSS feeds of other blogs into your Google Site. To do this you will open the “insert menu” while editing a page in your Google Site, select “more gadgets,” choose “RSS Feed,” then enter the address of the blog that you want…

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Looking for some resources on inspirational quotes to use in class? Here are a few of my favourite Pinterest boards where you can have access to a wide collection of quotes and visuals that inspire a love of teaching and learning. Browse through the different materials provided there and you will definitely find some to use with your students in class. If you know about other resources to add to the list, please share with us in…

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The Edublogs support team gets a lot of emails about the best way to add certain types of content to a blog. Often users are looking for a widget or a plugin that can help them embed content. What many users don’t realize is that you can embed lots of content just by pasting a simple URL into your blog post.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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The use of visual aids in teaching is a practice well established in the education literature and teaching pedagogy. Visuals tend to enhance the content’s comprehensibility and simplify complex processes. However, with the emergence of web2.0 technologies and the rapid uptake of digital media this visual feature of communication has been exponentially developed especially with the appearance of infographics.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Goobric is an interesting Chrome extension that allows teachers to easily grade students work by using rubrics. Goobric helps you grade any work that is created and delivered through one of Google Drive’s services ( documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Folders, etc). Up to now, Goobric supports only works created via the Doctopus Scriptwhich is a “a tool for differentiating, grouping, distributing and managing student projects in google Drive. Doctopus is available from any Google Spreadsheet from the…

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Below is a snapshot of a part of the graphic featuring the most useful operators. Click Here to access the original full version of this graphic.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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La menor ha bautizado su creación como “Rethink” y se ha dado a conocer en el Google Science Fair 2014 . Esta amante de la ciencia vive en Naperville, Illinois (Estados Unidos) y su sueño es crear un innovador automóvil cuya energía proceda del viento o del agua.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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This morning I am speaking at the Catholic Schools Foundation’s New Teacher conference at Boston College. Some of the best advice for new teachers comes from experienced teachers. A couple of times over the last few years I’ve asked readers of this blog to contribute to Google Presentations to share their best tips for new teachers. Those presentations are embedded below.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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This is a guest post from Shawn McCusker of EdTechTeacher.org, an advertiser on this site. While there are some very creative web tools out there, ThingLink is one of my favorites. It has earned this status by passing several of my key benchmark-tests for the classroom.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Moodle is a magnificent free product and has the potential to enable schools and teachers to build wonderfully unique interactive online learning courses in which learner interaction can be tracked, measured and responded to. Despite this the vast majority of Moodle courses I see are a long list of Word and PDF documents with at best a few forums that enable a minimum of human social interaction.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Chalkup is a great web tool that allows teachers to create classes and share different study materials on a message board that students can access in real-time. Chalkup lets you post discussion prompts, add comments to discussions, distribute announcements and assignments and view files.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Google has recently released some important updates to its Google Drive. I have already covered each of these updates in separate posts but for those of you who haven’t seen them yet, the list below aggregates all of these updates in one single place.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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