Bringing multimedia into the classroom is a great way to engage students in learning. Supplementing lessons, opening up new interests, and offering inspiration, online videos make for an incredible teaching tool. In 2010, we covered our favorite 100 video sites for educators, and we’ve now updated our list for 2012 with more than 100 resources and more than 25 brand new entries. Read on, and you’ll be able to check out the very best sources for educational videos on the web…

Continuar leyendo: 100+ Must-See Video Sites For Educators

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Ken Robinson’s talk “How to escape education’s death valley” is one of my favorites. It was recorded in April of 2013. I highly recommend that you watch his latest talk on TED.com. The quotes I assembled for the talk are the one’s most salient to me personally. This is not an attempt to summarize his talk in anyway, but perhaps a quote or two will be useful for you in your own presentations related to…

Continuar leyendo: Quotes from Sir Ken Robinson’s 2013 TED talk

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“With the recent announcement that Google Classroom will be available to all Google Apps for Education schools by the week of August 11th, schools that have also adopted iPads are interested in exploring the platform to determine if it will …”See it on Scoop.it, via Recull diari

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The new school year has arrived for many and is arriving soon for others. That means that soon network printers in schools all across the land will be filled with papers printed and forgotten. Some printing seems to be unavoidable while other printing, like that 33 page Wikipedia article to capture two paragraphs, is completely avoidable. Here are some services that can help you and your students conserve paper in your school.See it on Scoop.

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Here is an excellent new find I want to bring to your attention in this post. This is basically a flow chart created by The Visual Communication Guy to help you make informed decisions as to the requirements to use images from the net. The flow chart proceeds in the form of question-answer and walks users through the different explanations of copyright, fair use, creative commons and public domaine.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Can I Use This Picture- A New Wonderful Flowchart for Your Class

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How do you conduct yourself in your classroom? As a leader, a learner, an observer, a participant, and a member of a larger group. All of these roles hold so much nuance that your students learn from. It is sometimes easy to forget how much our students are learning from us just by being with us and observing how we act in the classroom both with them, other students, and our colleagues.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & …

Continuar leyendo: 3 TED Talks That Might Actually Change How You Teach (And Think)

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Looking for some great TED talks to watch this weekend ? Here is a collection of 8 talks compiled by the folks in TED covering one single theme: the origin of ideas. Yes, this is the very same theme that Steve Johnson intensively investigated in his momentous book” Where Do Good Ideas Come From?”. Besides Steve’s talk you will also find talks from some prominent thinkers in the field of personal development and cognitive science. EnjoySee it on Scoop.it, via…

Continuar leyendo: 8 Good TED Talks on The Origin of Ideas

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Find out best tips on how to choose the right MOOC courses and don’t become disappointed.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Hay cosas que asumimos por inercia o que se disfrazan de progreso cuando representan las teorías más profundamente conservadoras que podamos encontrar en materia educativa. En TeachThought hemos encontrado 10 ejemplos para reflexionar.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 10 términos educativos a replantearnos seriamente

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Hace unas horas he publicado la lista de los diez viajeros a los que me gustaría parecerme de mayor (entiendo “mayor” como la adquisición de…See it on Scoop.it, via Recull diari

Continuar leyendo: Los 10 divulgadores de ciencia a los que me gustaría parecerme de mayor (I)

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I have been writing my PhD so haven’t updated this blog for a while. Thesis writing is taking up a lot of my mental space as I get the ideas, storyline and contentions to ‘coalesce’ and cohere in a manner suitable for such a piece of work.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Curation as Digital Literacy Practice

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What started as Google Docs has over the passage of time evolved into a more robust office suite and is even giving Microsoft a run for its money. The reason is the option to create, view and edit documents in famous Office formats, as well as cloud based integration. The fact is that Microsoft took a while to realize the potential threat that Google posed towards its Microsoft Office suite. It took a long time for Microsoft to release…

Continuar leyendo: Google Slides Vs PowerPoint Online: The Cloud Presentation Battle

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The best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray. – Robert Burns How many times have you planned out a lesson, been excited about how awesome it would be, and had it go totally awry? We’ve all been there. While it is a pain when it happens – especially since the planned out …See it on Scoop.it, via Aprender y educar

Continuar leyendo: How To Get Into The ‘Flow’ In Your Classroom

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ThingLink is one of my favourite web tools for creating interactive images.If you have never used ThingLink before then here is a step by step guide I posted earlier to outlining the entire procedure to create your first interactive visual that can embed videos, maps, text and links.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Thinglink a Good Tool to Annotate and Create Interactive Videos for Your Class

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A few weeks ago Digital Inspiration posted a very informative article outlining the different web tools that can be used to send large files online. He also created this handy chart where he compared between the different services that you can use to send large files.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: A Handy Chart Featuring The Top 8 Tools for Sending Large Files

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Anteriormente en GadgetsBlogger.com hemos compartido con ustedes algunos gadgets decontadores de usuarios o visitas online en tiempo real para tu blog los cuales son fáciles de instalar y gratuitos, así que esta vez completaremos la serie de nuestros gadget estadísticos para tu blogspot. See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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BlogBooker is a free service that allows you to turn your the contents of your Blogger blog into a PDF. Using BlogBooker is a fairly straight-forward process. BlogBooker walks you through each step of the process except for the very first step which might sound a little too “techy” for some Blogger users, but it’s actually quite easy. The first step in using BlogBooker is to export the contents of your blog as an XML file. This is actually …

Continuar leyendo: Turn Your Blog Into a Book

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Quality Public Domain pictures and clip art edited for printing, free of copyright and safe for searching.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Public Domain clip art at WPClipart, top thumbnail browsing page

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I know, I just blogged about Evernote after ISTE, but it was a short post and there was so much more that I wanted to know! My UltiMaTe BiG QueSTioN: How do I use Evernote with students and teachers at school? My answer…”I don’t know…yet.”, but I am embarking on a journey to figure it out. So, here I go…my first entry on using Evernote.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Evernote 101: How to Share Notes Using Evernote

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Personalized learning is a key to transforming education. What is personalized learning? It is meeting the kids where they are – and then helping them grow in their strengths, and better see themselves. It’s finding out where each student’s interests lie, challenging them to grow in their individual interests, and then celebrating their growth! It is student-centered, student-driven, and student-celebrated.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 6 Steps Towards A More Personal Classroom

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