This list of 101 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About is a resource for teachers who want to easily integrate technology into their classroom.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Here is a nifty little trick that is often overlooked by many teachers. I got an email the other day from a teacher asking about some tools to crop YouTube videos. I thought, why would you use a third party tool when YouTube has a very powerful built-in cropping functionality. Unless you want to use a tool that both crops and removes surrounding content, I think YouTube’s cropping service is what you definitely need. The only inconvenience…

Continuar leyendo: An Important YouTube Tip for Teachers and Educators

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Photos for Class is a new service designed to help students and teachers find and cite Creative Commons-licensed images. The site utilizes Flickr’s API to find images that match your search terms. When you find an image that you want to use, click the download link just below the image. The downloaded image will have the attribution information added to it. See the screenshot below for an example.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Cada vez encontramos más materiales para interactuar con los ipads y conseguir que la experiencia virtual sea compartida con algún elemento físico. Es el caso de apps que se combinan con libros de papel mostrando animaciones/ sonidos… en la tableta, rotuladores que reproducen en la pantalla el trazo, etc… Dentro de este grupo de productos […]

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Continuar leyendo: Free Technology for Teachers: Access More Than 1,000 Socrative Quizzes Sorted by Subject

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Continuar leyendo: Free Technology for Teachers: A Guide to Blogging and Examples of Classroom Blogs

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A few questions to ask yourself before you talk to me about bad teachers. What is a bad teacher? Out of the dozens of teachers you’ve had, how many of them would you actually call “bad”? Are you successful because or despite those teachers? Did your school environment exacerbate or blunt the effect of the bad teacher? Would you have “made it” if the bad teacher was a good teacher? … Read MoreSee it on Scoop.it, via…

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Google Calendar is one of the best free web tools I have been using for few years now. As a teacher, you can use Google Calendar for a wide variety of purposes. You can, for instance, create events and share them with your students and parents; you can use it to share important dates and information with students. You can also create reminders about assignments and share them with your class, and if you have …

Continuar leyendo: Google Calendar Explained for Teachers

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Bloom’s Taxonomy Tools is a Google document created by NJ superintendent Scott Rocco and it features a list of 89 web tools and mobile apps that correspond with every thinking level of Bloom’s taxonomy. This work is a collective effort from different teachers and educators who have come together and crowdsourced ideas and tools to help teachers make the best of Bloom’s digital taxonomy in their instruction.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: New Bloom’s Taxonomy Sheet with Over 80 Web Tools to Try Out

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As a student, I’d have to say that one of the most annoying tasks when writing an assignment, whether a blog, a report or an essay would have to be citing sources. It’s not like I don’t feel that authors deserve credit for their work or that I’m too lazy to cite something. It’s the fact that teachers request that information be cited in a certain way. Sadly however, the “way” …

Continuar leyendo: Creative Commons from a Student’s Perspective

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It seems like a large number of our readers here in EdTech and mLearning are Android fans. Each time we post a list of iPad apps on certain topic, we receive a number of emails from several teachers inquiring about the Android versions of those apps. The recent request we got in this regard is about concept mapping apps for Android. To this end, we have scanned the iPad concept mapping apps we have previously shared and consulted a few…

Continuar leyendo: 5 of The Best Android Apps for Creating Visual Concept Maps

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It is always my preference to guide teachers in the direction of teaching their elementary school students not to reveal personally identifying information on classroom blogs. That said, I also recognize that sometimes the only way a teacher will try blogging is if they can restrict access to just students and their parents. The directions in the video below cover the steps you can take to restrict access to Edublogs, KidBlog, and Blogger blog posts. …

Continuar leyendo: Video – How to Restrict Access to Edublogs, Blogger, Kidblog, and WordPress Blog Posts

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Today I am sharing with you one of my favourite YouTube channels that covers topics pertaining to various disciplines and subject matters with a focus on world history. And though I am not a history teacher, I really find these videos interestingly insightful and intellectually stimulating. Today while I was watching the Origin of Life it dawned on me to write a quick post and share this video resource with you. History teachers ( and other …

Continuar leyendo: A Wonderful YouTube Channel for Teachers and Students

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7 Simple Ways You Can Help Students Pay Attention by TeachThought Staff For many teachers, helping students “pay attention” is probably the wrong way to help improve what you’re probably trying to improve. Listless students….See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Continuing my series of blog posts on Chrome extensions here are 5 more Chrome extensions that might be useful for you as a teacher.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 4 Chrome Extensions for Teachers

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It’s been awhile since I last updated you on the new educational web tools that have been recently launched. Things have been pretty hectic here particularly that I am a full time PhD student now and it gets increasingly hard for me to find a balance between blogging here and my studies but I am doing my best to keep up with everything.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 9 Excellent New Educational Web Tools for Teachers

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En temas de Geografía, Política, Historia, Religión y hasta de cultura general, la comparación de países está a la orden del día. Pues bien, hoy compartimos algunas opciones recomendadas en el portal educativo FreeTech4Teachers que servirán para la comparación del tamaño de un país visto encajado sobre el territorio de otro: Colombia cabe casi 7 veces en Estados Unidos, Rusia es 35 veces más grande …

Continuar leyendo: 4 buenas herramientas para comparar tamaños de países

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Continuar leyendo: Free Technology for Teachers: Wideo Offers Nice Templates for Creating Animated Videos

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Using these map creation tools you can easily create and manage interactive maps.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Tools for Teachers to Create and Manage Interactive Maps

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Instagram is a hugely popular social network for photo sharing. Though the use of social media in the classroom may have skyrocketed, Twitter and Facebook definitely reign supreme as the keysocial media tools for schools and teachers. Somehow, despite the widespread popularity of Instagram, few teachers are employing it in the classroom.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 10 Ways To Use Instagram In Your Classroom

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