The 13 ULTIMATE Free Stock Photo Sites for your Presentation or Online Course Finding the perfect free stock photo resource is a pain. There are a ton of resources online, and I’ve created a go-to list that I want to share with you. As a content marketer and designer, I’m constantly looking for high-quality images for my presentations. I have the exact vision in my head of what image I want, but too much of the time, the photo is hard to find. I feel like half the time the results I get are that generic man-in-office photo or the super cheesy I’m-giving-a-great-presentation shot. This got me thinking, if I feel this frustrated about finding high-quality, high-resolution free stock images, and I’m frequently on the image search, then you must be frustrated too. So to say no more to low quality, generic photos, I’ve curated a list of the best free stock photo websites where you can find images for your presentations, online courses, social media posts, newsletters, the works. Importantly, I’ve done all the hard work for you. Free Stock Photo Websites 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 7.
25 Critical Thinking Strategies For The Modern Learner Critical thinking is the engine of learning. Within this complex process or so many other relevant themes that contribute to learning: creativity, analysis, evaluation, innovation, application, and scores of other verbs from various learning taxonomies. So the following infographic from Mentoring Minds is immediately relevant to all educators, and students as well. It’s a bit of a mash of Habits of Mind, various 21st century learning frameworks, and the aforementioned learning taxonomies, promoting collaboration, problem-solving, and real-world connections (standard “critical thinking fare” with Habits of Mind-sounding phrases such as “Open-Mindedness”). At the bottom, it pushes a bit further, however, offering 25 critical thinking strategies to help support progressive learning. While a few are a bit vague (#12 says to “Think critically daily,” and #17 is simply “Well-informed”), overall the graphic does pool together several important themes into a single image.
Poster Creation The 4 Steps to Create Great Presentations [SlideShare] Rand is the man. A man with a plan and a mustache. If you’re not familiar with Rand Fishkin, now’s the time to be. Recently Rand Tweeted that, in his opinion, the only good presentation resulting from a Google search “creating great presentations” was this deck on slideshare.net. Sounds like a challenge. Have you used these in your presentations or have anything to add? The Question Game: A Playful Way To Teach Critical Thinking The Question Game by Sophie Wrobel, geist.avesophos.de The Question Game: A Playful Way To Teach Critical Thinking Big idea: Teaching kids to ask smart questions on their own A four-year-old asks on average about 400 questions per day, and an adult hardly asks any. In A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas, Warren Berger suggests that there are three main questions which help in problem solving: Why questions, What If questions, and How questions. Regardless of the question, the question needs to be phrased openly and positively in order to achieve positive results – a closed or negative question only raises bad feelings against each other. Why questions help to find the root of a problemWhat If questions open up the floor for creative solutionsHow questions focus on developing practical solutions Learning Goal: A Pattern Of Critical Thinking Introducing The Question Game Evaluating Learning Progress
Video Creation Addressing Academic Dishonesty in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology Key Takeaways Technology can help fight cheating that is itself based on technology, especially with tweaking of assignments and assessments in a way that makes it difficult to cheat. Students should be made aware of resources such as university writing centers and tools such as Endnote. Training about copyright, plagiarism, and time management can help students succeed without feeling that they have to cut corners. Academic integrity can seem like a nebulous concept, though it is probably better understood through its opposite, academic dishonesty: that is, "…anything that gives a student an unearned advantage over another."1 It involves our understanding of ethics, culture, pedagogy, and even technology. William Astore, a professor of history at Pennsylvania College of Technology, dismisses the division between an "academic world" and a "real world." Confronting academic cheating can ultimately help students grow. Is Technology the Culprit? Strategies to Fight Dishonesty Figure 1. Note
eQuizShow - Free Online Quiz Show Templates Google Draw SOBRE MÍ - Éxito a los 40 “Si crees que puedes, tienes razón. Si crees que no puedes, también la tienes”. Henry Ford Mi nombre es Mª Victoria Martínez Lojendio, soy emprendedora, escritora, formadora, conferenciante y disfruto ayudando a otras mujeres a ver lo mejor de sí mismas acompañándolas a alcanzar sus sueños. Por eso me hice coach, mi formación está reconocida por el ICF (International Coach Federation) y por ASESCO (Asociación Española de Coaching). Además de mis estudios de arquitectura técnica y diseño gráfico, tengo también una amplia experiencia en diseño web, marketing online, formación y desarrollo personal. Descubrí el coaching por “causalidad”. Busqué información en Internet y lo que encontré me impactó, era lo que yo quería y hasta ese momento no sabía que existía. Me pasé bastante tiempo entrando en páginas de coaching, leyendo y pensando que estaba fuera de mi alcance, que yo no podía, que era algo que estaba por encima de mis posibilidades y todo eso que nos decimos cuando tenemos miedo.
ICT applications in Literacy MP3 commentary Description: Produce audio commentaries to be played back by an individual on a portable audio device as they move around a particular location. Examples: a guide to an art exhibition in which artists describe their pictures and sculptures; a guide to accompany a local history walk with descriptive and explanatory speech pertinent to specific points on the walk. Resources Digital sound recording devices or computers with microphones. Presentations Use pictures, text or multimedia effectively to support oral presentations. Interactive whiteboard. Reading without expression Use a talking word processor to illustrate how important expression is when reading aloud. Word processor with text-to-speech feature. Podcast Take any digitally recorded audio outcomes from pupils' work and share with a wider audience via the Internet. Audio files may be simply uploaded to a website so that they may be downloaded manually by listeners. Resources: Peer review