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Hangouts Use Hangouts to keep in touch. Message contacts, start free video or voice calls, and hop on a conversation with one person or a group. • Include all your contacts with group chats for up to 150 people. • Say more with status messages, photos, videos, maps, emoji, stickers, and animated GIFs. • Turn any conversation into a free group video call with up to 10 contacts. • Call any phone number in the world (and all calls to other Hangouts users are free!). • Connect your Google Voice account for phone calling, SMS texting, and voicemail integration. • Keep in touch with contacts across Android, iOS, and the web, and sync chats across all your devices. • Message contacts anytime, even if they’re offline.

Glogster EDU Hands-On Websites Kids Love Here is a gold mine of edu-websites that every teacher should check out. Iknowthat.com – High energy, engaging games in math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, The Arts, and thinking games all to be found here either by subject or grade level. Into the Book - a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Canvas para el diseño de proyectos Uno de los objetivos de Conecta13 es poner al servicio de la comunidad herramientas que permitan incorporar líneas de innovación a nuestra práctica profesional de manera eficaz. Con esta intención ofrecemos ahora el resultado de una de nuestras líneas más fructíferas en I+D educativa: el Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos (ABP). En los últimos años hemos tenido la suerte de poder trabajar con muchos docentes y centros a los cuales hemos ayudado a diseñar y poner en funcionamiento un gran número de proyectos de aprendizaje. Recogemos ahora esa experiencia para poder ofrecer una herramienta pilotada en cientos de horas de formación y de reflexión colaborativa. Creemos profundamente en el potencial creativo de los docentes, los centros y las comunidades educativas. Por ello, para contribuir a liberar ese potencial creativo ofrecemos una herramienta que nos permite diseñar proyectos de aprendizaje de manera ágil, sencilla y visual: el CANVAS para el diseño de proyectos.

Plotly Quad blogging - an inquiry into teaching writing I'm excited to be at the start of an action research project with three other schools - our aim, over the next five weeks or so, is to inquire into whether we can use quad blogging to improve student writing. Quad blogging is something new, it was started last year by a David Mitchell, a Deputy Head in the UK, whom I first met at the Google Teacher Academy in London in 2010. A teacher at our school heard about this initiative and was keen to join a "quad". She contacted a school in the UK who were also interested in blogging, and I found her other classes around the world in Japan, Hong Kong, China and Chile who wanted to join in too. Her class was involved in two rounds of quad blogging during March last year.

Google Drive - free online storage on the App Store eduCanon: Interactive Video Unleashed Quad Blogging - lessons learned A couple of weeks ago we had our final Skype call this year with our quad blogging action research team to pull together the lessons learned from having 4 classes of students from schools around the world interact with each other using blogging. As teachers we were inquiring into the impact of using blogging as a tool to improve writing. The gut feeling from us all seems to be that quad blogging has led to a dramatic improvement in some students' writing - students have stepped up and put a lot more effort into their writing as a result of producing authentic blog posts for a specific audience.

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