Infografías como recursos didácticos
Por Rosana Larraz | Actualizado el 28.02.16 | Publicado el 18.05.10 “La Casa” y “Skateboard” son un diseño de Cristina Gambaccini, ambas infografías están publicadas en Revista Billiken, Editorial Atlántida, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Son más sintéticas que los vídeos, más narrativas que un esquema, más atractivas que las tablas de datos, más exploratorias que las presentaciones tradicionales y, a diferencia de los textos escritos, permiten visualizar la información que presentan. Las infografías transmiten hechos, procesos, noticias, acontecimientos o datos de forma amena, sintética y visual, facilitando la compresión de información árida o compleja y estimulando el interés del lector que, de un golpe de vista, puede seleccionar en ellas lo que le interesa, lo que ya conoce y lo que no. En formatos estáticos o animados, impresos o digitales integrando elementos multimedia y a menudo interactividad, las infografías ofrecen muy variadas posibilidades de explotación didáctica. Para explorar
38 Ideas to Use Google Drive in Class
August 11, 2014 This is the third post in a series of posts aimed at helping teachers and educators make the best out of Google Drive in classrooms. This series comes in a time when teachers are getting ready to start a new school year and hopefully will provide them with the necessary know-how to help them better integrate Google Drive in their teaching pedagogy. The two previous posts featured in this series were entitled consecutively "New Google Drive Cheat Sheet" and "Teachers Visual Guide to Google Drive Sharing". Today's post covers some interesting ideas and tips on how to go about using Google Drive in your classroom. Google Docs
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19 Great Web Tools and Mobile Apps for Creating Interactive Timelines
July 11, 2016 Besides posters and infographics timelines are great learning tools to help students visualize their learning and enhance their overall comprehensibility. Timelines can be incorporated almost in any subject area and can be used to teach a wide variety of topics from historical events to bibliographical information. Web technologies have immensely facilitated the process of creating a timeline and anyone can quickly design an interactive timeline in few steps. The chart below features a collection of some of the best timeline creation tools to use with students in class. We arranged these applications into three main categories: iPad apps, Android apps and web-based tools. Check them out and share with us you feedback.
Vidmaker | Online Collaborative Video Editor
Beautiful web-based timeline software
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21 Grab-And-Go Teaching Tools For Your Classroom
21 Grab-And-Go Teaching Tools For Your Classroom by Lynn Usrey Every teacher wants to be able to make his or her classroom environment the optimum place for learning, interacting and engaging. Today, there is a wide assortment of free technology options available to enhance your instruction. How about starting with lesson creation? 1. 2. Need something for instant polling? 3. 4. 5. Connecting with home learning? 6. 7. 8. 9. Current Events and Video Sourcing – There are great well-known resources at YouTube and CNN Student News, but have a look at: 10. 11. 12. The Less-Is-More Approach (And Tools 13-21) Since technology is always changing, don’t hesitate to explore new tools and ideas. For later grade levels, there are tools such as Hippocampus and Vocareum with a emphasis on secondary education.
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GoAnimate for Schools
Easy learning curve. Low budget. Simple do-it-yourself tools. Powerful Tools at the Click of a Mouse Add a character, swap a background, or start a scene just by dragging and dropping. Videos for a Wide Range of Uses GoAnimate for Schools is used by hundreds of thousands of students, in thousands of schools, on 6 continents. Flip Your Classroom By Sending Home Videos In a flipped classroom, students learn through online instruction outside of class; “homework” is done in the classroom. Introduce Topics and Lessons Teach new and difficult topics with video. Create Presentations Use video at open houses, back-to-school nights, assemblies, staff meetings, and other events. Create Reports and Stories Have students make reports, presentations, and stories with video, helping them convey their creativity and perspectives without physically placing them in front of peers. Check for Understanding Teachers can “check for understanding” with video assignments. Engage Special Needs Students Produce PSAs
101 Web 2.0 Teaching Tools
Online tools and resources have made it easier for teachers to instruct students, and for students to collaborate with those teachers and with other students and parents. These “Web 2.0” teaching tools aren’t magical, but they may seem to defy definition at times since they save time, help you to stay organized, and often take up little space on a computer. Some of these applications are Web-based, which means that they can be accessed from any computer. The following list is filled with tools that will make a teacher’s, or those enrolled in the best online education programs, life easier. Aggregators The following list includes free tools that you can use to stay on top of current events, including headlines and blogs. Aggie: Aggie is an open source news aggregator that’s also a desktop application. Bookmark Managers Classroom Tools You need tools to help assess class progress. Animoto: This web tool completely simplifies the creation and sharing of videos. Collaboration Course Management
12 Useful YouTube Accessories for Teachers and Students
If you can access it in your school, YouTube has a ton of useful educational content. Here are ten tools that can make using YouTube in your classroom a better experience for everyone. Removing Related Content and Banner Advertisements. A Cleaner YouTube is a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. View Pure is a simple little tool that strips way all of the distractions of related videos, comments, and promoted videos. SafeShare.tv makes it possible to view YouTube videos without displaying the related videos and associated comments. Quietube is a handy little browser extension that removes all the clutter from YouTube allowing you to view only your selected video. Tools for Cutting and Remixing YouTube VideosDisclaimer: Some of these tools might be interpreted as a violation of YouTube's terms of service. TubeChop gives you the ability to clip a section from any YouTube video and share it. Splicd is a service that lets users select and share a segment of a YouTube video.
