VideoScribe has recently released a new enhanced app called VideoScribe Anywhere.The new app is much more powerful, faster and more stable to make scribes on the go. It’s perfect for classroom activities and teachers to produce quick scribes.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: A Great App for Making Animations That Draw Themselves

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Cite lighter is a very good web tool for student researchers, teachers and academics. It combines both the features of an academic search engine and an organizational framework for helping students with their research papers writing. Citeligther allows you to easily search for facts and information to back your arguments and it automatically cites your sources using different citation styles: MLA, APA, and Chicago).See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Citelighter- An Indispensable Tool for Academics and Student Researchers

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Looking for some good resources for students? Here are some notable picks from teachers. All are safe, student-tested, and easy to use.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Safe Student-tested Tools to Use in Your Class

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For digital portfolios to be truly valuable to both teachers and students, they need to provide insight into not only what students created, but also how and why. If the ultimate goal is to develop students as learners, then they need an opportunity for making connections to content as well as the overarching learning objectives.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Digital Portfolios: The Art of Reflection

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Below is a list of some popular Google Docs add-ons for teachers and educators. These extensions are geared towards enhancing your Google Docs productivity by enabling you to perform a wide range of functionalities that Docs alone would not be able to afford. Some of the things you can do with these add-ons include: create bibliographies and automatically format citations in different citation styles, integrate various accents into your docs, create and insert mind…

Continuar leyendo: The 7 Popular Google Docs Tools for Teachers

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Los niños y niñas con algún tipo de trastorno asociado a la lectura deben hacer frente a una mayor complejidad de sus procesos de aprendizaje. Esto es debido a que la lectura interviene en la mayoría de asignaturas; los tiempos de procesamiento no son los mismos, porque las habilidades lectoras mecánicas no son las de…

Continuar leyendo: Binding: la solución a los problemas de lectura infantiles

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Fed up with the traditional way of presenting through Keynote or Google Slides? The four tools below are definitely great alternatives to use to create engaging presentations to share with students. We particularly divided the tools into two main categories: tools for creating slideshow presentations and tools for creating document/poster based presentations.Gumersindo Fernández’s insight:I- Tools for creating slideshow-style presentations:1-Prezi2- Haiku DeckII- Tools for creating poster based presentations1- ThingLink 2- GlogsterSee it on Scoop.it, …

Continuar leyendo: Top 4 Presentation Tools for Teachers

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Today we are updating the popular ‘iPad digital portfolio apps’ post we published last year by adding the Android version of some of the apps we featured there. Using these apps students ad teachers will be able to easily create and access their digital portfolios online. They can also use them to document their learning and to showcase their progress via compiling and storing different learning artifacts and creating independent learning journals. Some of these tools allow…

Continuar leyendo: 5 Good Portfolio Creator Apps for Students

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You may have seen other teachers produce printed portfolios or books documenting their students’ work, and you may have wondered if you could create one as well. The answer is yes you can!Whether you want to create a simple PDF version of your blog, or you want to turn it into a glossy, breathtaking, piece of art there are tools out there that you can use.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Turning Your Edublog Into a Book

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Today’s collection features a list of some useful new educational web tools we have curated from the piles of emails we have received over the last couple of weeks. The purpose is to provide busy teachers and educators with a handy resource where they can access and keep updated of the latest releases in the world of educational technology.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 10 New Educational Web Tools for Teachers and Educators

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Google Forms is one of the versatile tools we use for a wide variety of instructional purposes. From creating survey forms to designing short formative assessment quizzes, Google Forms is definitely a life saver for teachers.With the added functionalities brought about by integrated add-ons , teachers can now perform some amazing things with their forms. Below are three examples of tools to simplify your classroom workflow.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Some Very Good Google Forms Tools for Teachers

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Blogs are surprisingly easy to use. They require minimum technical knowledge and are quickly and easily created and maintained.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Why Teachers and Students Should Blog

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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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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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There are slideshows, printables, lesson plans, downloadable content and guides, videos, and much more. The sites listed below offer lots of stuff for all subjects and grades, so dive in and see what you can dig up.Who doesn’t love free tools, especially free tools for teachers? Happy hunting, teaching, and learning!See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 20 Free Tools for Teachers: Videos, Guides, and Printables!

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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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Gliffy is a great Chrome app for creating diagrams and flow charts. And although it has some slight shortcomings such as the absence of vector-based output format and that the app still does not support direct printing, Gliffy remains one of the best diagram making option for teachers. It has an intuitive interface and a very good editor that can work with no Internet connection.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Teachers Tool for Creating Great Looking Diagrams and Charts

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Teachers and educators in the present fast-paced, ever evolving world of communication are presented with a plethora of options which might sometimes be overwhelming. To reduce the efforts of teachers in learning a new form of communication, we give you some of the most effective ways of using the most modern form of communication, Twitter. The 26 Effective Ways to use Twitter for Teachers and Educators Infographic is aimed at educators interested in utilizing Twitter as…

Continuar leyendo: [Infographic] 26 effective ways to use Twitter for teachers and educators

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If you want some ideas for EdTech tools that teachers are using here is a list of tools you might want to try. The list is crowdsourced so if you have a favorite tool please add it to the list. If you have ideas for how to use a tool please add in teaching ideas.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: EdTech Tool List

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Here are what believe are some of the best iPad apps we would recommend for music teachers as well as anyone interested in creating music on the go. There is no huge learning curve in using these apps and anyone with the least knowledge of music and notations will be able to come to grips with how these apps work from the first few trials. Their intuitive interfaces and easy-to-use functionalities make them …

Continuar leyendo: The Best Music Creation Apps for Teachers

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