I’ve written about a number of video, audio, and collage creation tools, with WeVideo, Audacity, andPicMonkey topping some of my lists. However, it can be a challenge for students to locate copyright-friendly media when using these tools for presentations or idea sharing. It’s always best for students to create materials or use ones that are in the public domain. Here are some of the best resources I’ve found for the latter.See it on …

Continuar leyendo: Six Top Sources for Free Images, Video, and Audio

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So this list of graphic resources from Kimberly Reynolds for visual content fits right in this context–for you as a teacher, or your students as creators.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 33 Graphic Design Tools To Publish Visual Content

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Piktochart is one of our favourite web tools for creating posters and infographics. We have reviewed it here in EdTech and mLearning in several posts in the past.And since then, Piktochart has added some really cool features and functionalities that make it super easy for users to easily design and share visually appealing infographics.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Creating A Beautiful Classroom Infographic in A Matter of Minutes

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Pear Deck is a nice app that allows you to plan and build interactive presentation decks directly from your Google Drive. One distinctive feature of Pear Deck is that it includes some amazing formative assessment tools that allows you to engage the entire class with a series of questions on the content of the presentation.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: An Excellent Google Drive Tool for Creating Interactive Presentations

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If you’re an educator, chances are you’re interested in using Twitter as a teaching and learning tool. And the good news is, we’ve got you covered, from basic instructions on general use to creative strategies you can incorporate into your course or lesson plans. In this guide we outline how to set up and organise your account, how to find and follow others, what to Tweet vs. what to Retweet, which hashtags …

Continuar leyendo: The Educator’s Guide to Twitter (Tools, Tips and Hastags)

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My personal selection of content curation tools that I like and use the most for my own work. Presented at International Journalism Festival of Perugia on Apr…See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Content Curation Tools – International Journalism Festival 2015

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For this week’s Top Picks List Friday, we are featuring websites and apps for making videos and animations. Teachers know that video making is a tried and true way to get kids engaged in building, demonstrating, and sharing knowledge. These apps and sites feature user-friendly tools and features that make it more fun than ever to get kids’ productions edited and polished.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 16 Websites and Apps for Making Videos and Animation

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Creating great infographics need not be a chore, no matter if you’re a teacher or a student. Taking information and presenting it in an artful and visually appealing way has never been easier, thanks to Web 2.0 tools.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 9 Tools for Making Infographics in the Classroom

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To make the tedious task of making beautiful charts and maps easier, I’ve made the list of best tools available for the job. I’ve divided the list into two parts; first covers the tools that require coding and are meant for developers, while the second list contains tools that don’t require any coding.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: The 14 Best Data Visualization Tools

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Looking for some powerful EdTech tools to try out in your class or probably use for your professional development? This Symbaloo web mix created by Amy has you covered. The collection has around 50 wonderful educational tools and except for Knowable, an application we didn’t know before, all of the rest have been already reviewed here in the past.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 50 Great EdTech Tools for Teachers and Educators

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Comic strips and cartoons are great learning and teaching materials. Students love them and you can see the excitement in their eyes the moment they know they are included in their lesson. Well, think of yourself when you were a student, I bet you had the same feelings about these materials.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Great Resources and Tools for Teaching Using Comic Strips

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The tools to publish student work are separated into 11 varied categories that run the spectrum of digital publishing, a list that’s nearly as useful as the graphic itself. You can find the list, graphic, and tools below.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 44 Diverse Tools To Publish Student Work

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Das, A.-K. Online Citation and Reference Management Tools, Paris: UNESCO, 2015Texto completoEsta unidad está dedicada a los sistemas de cita y las herramientas de gestión de referencia en linea. Las herramientas presentadas son Mendeley, CiteUlike, Zotero, Google Académico y EndNote. Las características de todas las herramientas de gestión se han discutido con figuras, tablas y cuadros de texto. En esta Unidad se analiza en detalles los aspectos de diferentes citas en línea y las …

Continuar leyendo: Citas en linea y gestores de referencias bibliográficas

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I taught high school math for 14 years. My last years I went paperless. There are many digital tools that support teaching math and Google Docs is one of them. If your school has Google Apps for Education (GAfE) here are 5 ways to have students use Google Docs in math:See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 5 Ways Students Can Use Google Docs in Math

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One of the onerous parts in essay and academic writing is the bibliography section. Managing, organizing and citing references can sometimes be a real challenge especially if you don’t keep track of what and who you cite. The last thing you would want after a strenuous writing task is a messy bibliography with one reference missing page numbers the other needs publication date or, worse of all, having to go back to your sources to …

Continuar leyendo: 6 of The Best Web Tools for Organizing and Managing Citations, References and Bibliographies

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Selected Web 2.0 presentation toolsSee it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Web 2.0 Presentation Tools: A Quick Guide

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Here are some very useful educational web tools we have curated over the last few weeks. These are EdTech tools we came across through posts from other edubloggers. As is the case with previous posts in New EdTech Web Tools for Teachers, we only feature the recent trending tools which we think would be a valued addition to teachers technology toolkit. See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 10 Excellent New Educational Web Tools for Teachers

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About two weeks ago, I wrote an article about representing information in form of an infographic. You can read the article here: 17 Fantastic Infographic Generators!Today, in this article I would write about another form of representing information i.e. through a presentation.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 12 Tools To Create Powerful Presentations

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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 …

Continuar leyendo: 5 Free Tools for Creating Whiteboard Videos

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There are several tools out there that claim to help users add electronic signature to their documents and PDFs but only a select few are really worth the try. We have been testing some of these tools and we have also checked different user reviews and came up with the titles below. We believe these are among the best Chrome tools teachers can use to electronically sign their documents. Both of these apps are integrated with Google Drive so you …

Continuar leyendo: Two Powerful Google Drive Tools for Signing Your Docs and PDFs

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