GoConqr - Changing the way you learn 10 aplicaciones para sacarle mayor provecho a Google Drive En un par de listados sobre formas de usar Dropbox, compartíamos una veintena de útiles aplicaciones online de terceros que se valían del poder de almacenamiento en la nube y compartición de archivos de Dropbox para ofrecer, en nuevos servicios, algo más que la posibilidad de guardar archivos: reproducir música en streaming, usarlo como hosting para sitios web, encriptar archivos, guardar automáticamente fotos de Facebook e Instagram, crear copias de seguridad de blogs, etc. Pues bien, Google Drive no se diferencia mucho de Dropbox por lo que no sorprende poder encontrar aplicaciones de terceros que saquen bastante provecho a sus cualidades, especialmente las inherentes a su naturaleza de producto de Google: estabilidad, seguridad, soporte, velocidad, muchas veces gratuidad, integración con otras herramientas de Google, etc. Aquí revisamos algunas de las mejores que ya han sido creadas, varias de ellas en forma de webapps para Google Chrome: 1. 2. DriveTunes, música vía streaming 3. 4.
Lulu - Self Publishing, Book Printing and Publishing Online REVISED: February 13, 2014 Lulu is a community for creators of remarkable works. We provide the tools for you to publish your work for personal use or for sale and distribution to others, a marketplace for the purchase of goods and services, and a site where you can participate in forums and discussion groups with like-minded creators. A Note About Our Community Lulu is a place where people of all ages, backgrounds, experience, and professions can publish, sell, or buy creative content such as novels, memoirs, poetry, cookbooks, technical manuals, articles, photography books, children’s books, calendars, and a host of other content that defies easy categorization. Lulu respects the effort that goes into creating your remarkable work and we are committed to protecting copyrights as well as your right to privacy. The Membership Agreement below describes in the best legal jargon available your rights as a Lulu community member, whether you are a creator or buyer of content. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Story Map The Story Map interactive includes a set of graphic organizers designed to assist teachers and students in prewriting and postreading activities. The organizers are intended to focus on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution development. Students can develop multiple characters, for example, in preparation for writing their own fiction, or they may reflect on and further develop characters from stories they have read. After completing individual sections or the entire organizer, students have the ability to print out their final versions for feedback and assessment. The versatility of this tool allows it to be used in multiple contexts. Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Collaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting Students hone their teamwork skills and play off each other's writing strengths as they participate in prewriting activities for a story to be written collaboratively by the whole class. Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Unit back to top
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ImageQuiz You Publish - ISSUU Digital Storytelling: What it is… And… What it is NOT | Tech Learning I was lucky to have shared my childhood bedroom for a few years with my grandmother, when she had come to live with us after an illness. At bedtime, she would tell me stories of her parents and three brothers and growing up in East Prussia, fleeing to the West after WW2 and the things that occupied her mind. I was hooked on storytelling. Humans are natural storytellers. Maybe as part of a natural process, we tend to stick first to the familiar and “substitute” our task (see Ruben Puentedura’s SAMR model). Over the years, I have seen in classrooms and created myself many stories, that are: merely substitutions to what I could/have done/told in analog ways created in isolation, without any connections to a larger concept, idea or community created only to be read by a teacher for a grade, without the possibilities of ever reaching a larger audience for feedback or being able to take its place as a puzzle piece of a larger picture/story It is NOT about the tools… it is about the skills
AppShed - Build HTML5, iPhone and Android apps online for schools, education and business Visualize any Text as a Network - Textexture Storyboard That: The World's Best FREE Online Storyboard Creator gettingsmart According to Common Sense Media, 95% of teachers agree that using technology increases student engagement and 92% of teachers want to add more technology to their classroom. We at Getting Smart are still basking in an ISTE afterglow… we’d like to share 10 great tools that we were introduced to there and the reasons they are so worth taking the time to master this summer. These are the tools that will transform your classroom in the fall because you will notice the definite threads that run throughout all these applications… real-time, collaborate and creative! Those words together are sure to build a lot of excitement around exactly how educational technology is developing and transforming what school looks like! 1. LiveSlide – Ever have trouble getting students to pay attention and participate during class? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Filtrar por color: una potente técnica desconocida de búsqueda en Google Aprender a extraer información online de forma efectiva es una habilidad importante a adquirir para gestionar cualquier investigación. Sin esta educación, repites unas prácticas erróneas que retornan de forma constante resultados pobres. A continuación puedes encontrar tres técnicas sencillas con resultados asombrosos y muy útiles: 1. Buscar en Google de forma efectiva requiere ir más allá de poner las primeras palabras que se nos ocurren en una casilla y quedarse con esta primera lista de resultados. La mayoría de personas creen equivocadamente que hacer una investigación inteligente en Google es fácil. Imagina que un estudiante necesita documentarse sobre personas que sufren un ritmo cardíaco lento El estudiante con habilidades avanzadas introduciría las palabras [ritmo cardíaco lento] en Google y se daría cuenta que el término “bradicardia” aparece en algunos de los resultados de la búsqueda. 2. Los resultados no te satisfacen del todo. 3. Entradas Relacionadas:
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