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6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2019. Mochila TICútil - Herramientas y aplicaciones TIC útiles que facilitan nuestra tarea educativa. iPad Apps to Enhance Students Creative Thinking. 30 essential iPad Apps for the paperless classroom – ICTEvangelist. I make no apologies for making this an iPad focused post.

30 essential iPad Apps for the paperless classroom – ICTEvangelist

So many of the schools that I work with have iPads both for students and for educators. The majority of the 30 Apps I’ve chosen are ones I have used extensively myself in the classroom with some new additions which I have seen being used by others to great success. NEW! Google Classroom: Individual Student View - Teacher Tech. I get asked this a lot “Alice, can you see all the work one student has done in Google Classroom?”

NEW! Google Classroom: Individual Student View - Teacher Tech

YOU CAN NOW! Students Tab Click on the Students tab in Google Classroom to view your class roster. Click on any students name to view their work. Work Page Clicking on the student’s name on the roster opens that student’s work page. Hold Down Control and Click on Assignment TIP!

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18 Good Chromebook Apps for Teachers. Free Interactive Guides to Help You Make The Best of Mac and iPad in Teaching. Tutorials to Help You Get Started Creating Apps in Your Classroom. 15 Good iPad Apps for Students Projects and Real World Learning. February 11, 2017 Here is a collection of some very good iPad apps students can use in their classroom projects.

15 Good iPad Apps for Students Projects and Real World Learning

The apps, which are curated from Apple's Real World Learning collection, are geared towards enhancing a number of key skills that include: creative thinking, design skills, literacy skills, coding, and many more. Some of the things students can accomplish using these applications include: create beautiful ebooks to share with others; create visual sketches to record notes; design educational video clips, screencasts and presentations; capture and organize ideas in diagrams and mind maps. 1- Book Creator ‘Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad.

With over 25 million ebooks created so far, Book Creator is ideal for making all kinds of books, including children's picture books, comic books, photo books, journals, textbooks and more.’2- Paper by Fifty Three ‘Paper is the best way to capture and connect your notes, photos, and sketches.

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50 Of The Best Free Apps For Teachers. 50 Of The Best Free Apps For Teachers by TeachThought Staff What are the best free apps for teachers?

50 Of The Best Free Apps For Teachers

That’s a pretty general and subjective idea. The best for them as human beings–health, finances, and entertainment? The best for them in the classroom? For iOS, Android, or Windows Phone? 30 Useful Education Apps for Teachers and Students. Some of The Best Windows Apps for Teachers. Similar to Mac Apps for Teachers, Educational Windows Apps is a resource section we created last year to help teachers using Windows in their instruction find and access educational Windows apps.

Some of The Best Windows Apps for Teachers

We haven’t published a lot in there yet but we are planning to invest more time in Windows apps store this year. However, if you are looking for some good educational Windows apps to start with, the collection below features some of the most popular Windows apps among teachers and educators. We are re-sharing it with you below hoping you will find it helpful. Enjoy Duolingo is a great web tool and mobile app for learning a new language. 3 Very Good Tools to Annotate Web Content. Here are some good Chrome extensions to use on your Chromebook to annotate webpages.

3 Very Good Tools to Annotate Web Content

You can use them to highlight portion of a web text, add your comments and tags, share annotated pages with others via social media websites or through generated links, organize your notes by tags and many more. And for those of you using Evernote, we have added Evernote Web Clipper which is a Chrome add-on to help you save things you come across online right to your Evernote account.

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The Essential 3 App Classroom Solution – Showbie. This is the first in a series of blog posts written by Apple Distinguished Educator, Trainer, and Showbie Champion, Joe Moretti.

The Essential 3 App Classroom Solution – Showbie

Schools looking for an effective implementation of technology to enhance their teaching and learning often fail to establish a clear base line of operation for the technology. In response to this, I developed a 3 app strategy as a bottom line for minimum effective use of technology in the learning space. The diagram below shows the minimum triangle of effective use of technology. Broadly speaking: concepts need to be introduced or taught, work needs to be set and content produced with a feedback mechanism available throughout the process.

I use Book Creator throughout the different year groups — even up to exam class age — for content creation. Explain Everything is a powerful, easy-to-use whiteboard tool. Showbie sits within this framework as the digital hub for any classroom activity. Everything Teachers Need to Know about Google Classroom. January 21, 2015 Google Classroom is definitely one of the best platforms out there for enhancing teachers workflow.

Everything Teachers Need to Know about Google Classroom

It provides a set of powerful features that make it an ideal tool to use with students. ‘Classroom helps teachers save time, keep classes organized, and improve communication with students. 18 Great Google Apps for Education Posters to Use With Students. July 3, 2016 As we were browsing Mindshift’s ’15 Tech Tool Favorites from ISTE 2016’ we came across this wonderful resource created and shared by Monica Martinez from EdTechTeam.

18 Great Google Apps for Education Posters to Use With Students

This is basically a collection of interesting visuals and posters covering different GAFE related apps and tips including: Chrome tips, Google tools, Google Street view, Google Docs tips, iPad tips, top 10 Google Apps, GAFE efficient workflow and many more. These posters are available for free and some of them are also available in other languages like French and Spanish. These resources will definitely help you make the best of GAFE in your instruction and ultimately leverage the potential of technology in education. How to use Google tools in Project-Based Learning. When you think about some of the key features of Project-Based Learning (PBL), what do you think of?

How to use Google tools in Project-Based Learning

PBL should be student-driven, with a real-world connection. It should be core to learning, include structured collaboration, and have a multifaceted assessment. Giving students a real problem to solve, getting them engaged in their work, having them work with others, and assessing their work with more than just a grade sounds a lot like how many things in the ‘real world’ work, doesn’t it? After all, aren’t we trying to prepare students for the world after school? Many of the tech tools used in classrooms are made especially for classrooms. Google tools and project based learning Planning: Where do you start when deciding on a project your students will spend significant time on, have some say in, that will address a number of learning goals and be meaningful and relevant? Inquiry: Once you’ve decided what the students will be focusing on, they’ll need more information on the topic.

Herramientas para educación: esto es lo que nos trae Google. Google ha lanzado algunas mejoras en las herramientas para educación que ofrece, dirigidas tanto a profesores como a alumnos. ¿Las conoces? Llegan novedades por parte de Google en sus herramientas para educación, con la intención de beneficiar tanto a alumnos como a profesores. Para el gigante de Internet, la tecnología puede ayudar a los profesores en lo que mejor hacen. De este modo, estimulan así sus mentes y fomentan las habilidades en la siguiente generación. A continuación, hablamos sobre todas las mejoras que llegan en las herramientas para educación de Google. Aplicación Expeditions para todos En septiembre de 2015 Google lanzó el programa Expeditions Pioneer Program. La app Expeditions puede ser utilizada con muchos dispositivos que escuelas y alumnos ya tienen. The periodic table of education technology. We had a crazy idea over the weekend here at Daily Genius.

What if we organized all the top education technology tools into a simple graphic? Then we took it a step further by identifying some of the best ways to organize data into a single visual. What better way to do that than by taking a page from the Periodic Table of the Elements? So we set out to identify the top edtech tools and conferences and then figured out which categories they all fit into. What you see below is the result of quite a bit of effort from the editors of Daily Genius as well as the community. But wanted to do something special for the end of the year. A Handy Poster Featuring 10 Essential iPad Activities for Teachers.