Planning to integrate digital portfolios in your instruction? This list of tools is a good place to start with. It contains some useful web applications that you and your students can use to easily create e-portfolios. Using e-portfolios with your students has several educational pluses that include:See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Excellent Rubric for Using Digital Portfolios in Class

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There are plenty of online tools for creating multimedia quizzes and flipped lessons. I am frequently asked for recommendations for “the best” one. I’m partial to using Google Forms to create multimedia quizzes, but there are others worth trying too. The chart embedded below provides an overview of the key features of five popular tools for creating multimedia quizzes and flipped lessons. You can also get a Google Docs version of the chart by clicking here.See it …

Continuar leyendo: 5 Tools for Creating Multimedia Quizzes – A Comparison Chart

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PowToon is a very powerful web app which you can use on Google Drive to create beautiful animated videos and presentations. PowToon provides you with all the necessary animation tools you’ll need to immediately begin creating your own professional-looking animated explainer videos and animated presentations. It has an easy to use interface with pre-designed templates and a variety of style libraries to choose from.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: A Very Useful Tool to Create Educational Animated Videos on Google Drive

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You don’t have to buy expensive software to handle small business video editing tasks. The tools on this list will help you quickly put together professional-quality videos — for free.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Five free video editors that deliver impressive results

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Do you use a variety of sources to help build your online course material? We have found 10 online citation and bibliography tools to help you properly cite your sources.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 10 Online Bibliography and Citation Tools

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There are so many good free tools for creating comics and cartoons on the web, as well as apps for tablets and smartphones. I’ve built out a list of fun tools I am looking forward to trying out over the upcoming holiday break. I can’t wait to brainstorm creative ways to leverage these in lessons!See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 20 Free Tools for Making Comics and Cartoons for Teaching and Learning

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Ring of Technologies is a beautiful visual wheel that displays a host of learning goals together with some examples of web tools to achieve them. To me this work (created and shared by UAF eLearning Faculty Resources) represents the core of digitally-based learning. It also chimes in with what we have said about purposeful use of technology in instruction. Having clear goals about what you want to target in your teaching using technology will definitely help your learners…

Continuar leyendo: The Digital Learning Wheel

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Over the last few weeks I’ve published charts comparing student response systems, timeline creation tools, and mind mapping tools. This chart comparing my five favorite web-based audio recording and editing tools is the next chart in the series. Eventually, all of these charts will be combined into one file.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 5 Web-based Audio Recording and Editing Tools Compared – Chart

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Last night I posted a chart comparing the features of five free multimedia timeline creation tools. Thanks to a comment by Robert McNulty on the FreeTech4Teachers Facebook page I learned about a fantastic new timeline creation tool. HSTRY is a multimedia timeline creation tool that will work on your laptop, Chromebook, iPad, or tablet.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: HSTRY – Create Multimedia Timelines in an Online Classroom

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Twitter is a social network of huge importance for us in education. We have posted several articles about it here inEducational Technology and Mobile Learning and here is a resourceful section where you can access all the educational tools, tips, and ideas to help you to effectively leverage Twitter in your teaching and learning.There are several ways we can use Twitter in education and here is a brief overview of some of them.See it on Scoop….

Continuar leyendo: 11 Effective Ways to Use Twitter in Education

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Over the last couple of weeks I have published a chart comparing mind mapping tools and a chart comparing student response systems. Both of those charts have been well received so I decided to create another chart about one of my favorite categories of tools, timeline creation tools. In the chart embedded below you will see a comparison of five free timeline creation tools that can be used online. The chart was created in Google Documents and you…

Continuar leyendo: 5 Timeline Creation Tools Compared – Chart

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ExamTime is a service that students can use to create flashcards, mind maps, and practice quizzes to help them study. After I published my chart of free mind mapping tools, the folks at ExamTime shared with me a mind map about creating mind maps. ExamTime’s mind map on mind maps outlines ideas and best practices for developing mind maps. That mind map is embedded below.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: ExamTime Presents a Mind Map About Creating Mind Maps

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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

Continuar leyendo: 101 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About | Tools for Teachers

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Continuar leyendo: The Ultimate Content Curation Tools Curated Collection by Robin Good

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Last weekend I published a chart comparing 9 popular student response systems. That chart seems to be popular so I decided to create a similar one about tools for creating mind maps. That chart is embedded below as a PDF. A Google Docs copy can be found here.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 11 Free Mind Mapping Tools Compared In One Chart

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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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In this article, you will find 10 Free Camtasia Studio 8 Video Tutorials centered around the advanced features and techniques that Camtasia Studio 8 offers. Camtasia Studio 8 is among the top eLearning Authoring Tools because it is powerful and easy-to-use, and it allows you to create your own videos even you have no such prior experience!See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 10 Free Camtasia Studio 8 Video Tutorials About Editing

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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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Twitter is a fascinating adventure of relationships, entertainment, education, and fun. Now imagine layering on a few dozen powerups.That’s how it feels sometimes when you find just the right Twitter tool. And there’s a tool for practically every desire or whim.Tools for productivity, for efficiency, for research, and so much more. With such a generous API, Twitter tools have become legion—and we social sharers are better off for it.See it …

Continuar leyendo: 59 Free Twitter Tools and Apps That Do Pretty Much Everything

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ThingLink is one of my favorite tools for playing with media which is why I’ve written more than a dozen posts about it in the last two years. ThingLink allows you to create interactive images by adding links, text, videos, and audio recordings to any static image that you own (click here for a how-to video). ThingLink’s image remix option allows you to upload an image and have others re-use it to create …

Continuar leyendo: Thinglink + Chemistry = Interactive Periodic Table of Elements

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