A Great App to Create and Edit Word, PowerPoint and Excel Docs on iPad September 10, 2015 WPS Office Free is one of the best free iPad apps you can use to view, edit and create Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents. It is fully compatible with Microsoft Office, PDF and several other document formats. WPS Office also supports a number of file formats that include doc, docx, ppt, xls, xlsx, tif, rtf, pdf and zip. Some of the features WPS Office provides for users include: supports wireless printing and Bluetooth keyboards, allows you to share presentations and documents with other devices using AirPlay, AirDrop, DLNA or WIFI, open and edit documents directly from popular cloud services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive and WebDAV, export office documents and presentations to a PDF and many more. WPS Office supports 6 languages: English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese.
12 must-have apps for supply teachers What are the essential resources for the supply teacher? Sharon Wood, founder of National Supply Teacher Week, takes a look at her absolute favourites. On supply, normal rules don’t apply. You may be left a set of plans, fully resourced, for the day. Or you may turn up with five minutes (10 minutes after you received the call to go) before the children arrive, to an empty desk, a missing laptop, and no password for the photocopier. ClassBreak Class Break features over 200 different activities and games that are outside the traditional PE class games of kickball and volleyball. Twitter Twitter is more than just a social media site. Undecided Undecided is a free app that is intended to help make decisions easier. BrainBreak BrainBreak is a great way to motivate, re-energize and refocus students at any stage of the day. Toontastic Toontastic is a free app, but upgrades can be made for a small fee. SparkleFish SparkleFish is a free app that is reminiscent of the game Mad Libs. Screen Chomp Easy PD
25 Of The Best iPad Apps To Promote Creativity In Students 25 Of The Best iPad Apps To Promote Creativity In Students This content was commissioned by Drawp, a professional-grade artistic app that promotes a simple creative workflow between students and teachers. Nailing down exactly what promotes creativity isn’t easy, if for no other reason than creativity looks different depending on what you’re talking about: Problem-solving? Drawing? Social interactions? But fundamentally-speaking, among the factors that promote creativity are collaboration, modeling, dynamic tools, and confidence. Tablets and smartphones feature some design elements that inherently promote creativity as well, including elegant touch-interfaces, a personal screen, and available connectivity with other apps and devices. When you combine these mobile devices with apps that promote creativity as well, and you’ve got a powerful combination that–in the right workflow–can produce some spectacular results. Workflow Matters In the creative process, workflow matters.
9 iPad Apps that Assess Student Learning | Educational technology | Learn2Earn By Katie Chirhart As an iPad Lab teacher, I work closely with the classroom teachers to deepen and assess their students’ understanding of the material taught in the classroom—oftentimes, teachers ask that I spend additional time in the lab covering material that they’ve already taught. The apps listed below are some of my favorite apps to use in these instances. Technology allows students opportunities to demonstrate and engage in learning in ways that go beyond using paper and pencil. A tedious review session, suddenly becomes a something to look forward to. Use these apps to take your classroom learning environment and assessment to the next level. Formative (Real-Time Assessment) EdPUZZLE If you’ve ever wanted your students watch a YouTube video, with questions and comments spread throughout the video, this app is for you. Socrative Use this iPad app to online quizzes that can be completed on individual devices (computers, old smartphones and tablets). PickMe Buzzer Plickers Kahoot! AutoRap
Edueto: excellente plateforme pour créer vos exercices interactifs et collecter les résultats Les plateformes se suivent et heureusement toutes ne se ressemblent pas. Edueto permet de créer des exercices interactifs variés, incluant des médias, d’inscrire des élèves sans mail et ‘affecter les exercices à des groupes choisis puis de visualiser les résultats. A l’accueil rien de bien extraordinaire, un menu vous propose d’accéder à différentes sections. Dans my library, vous retrouverez tous ls exercices que vous avez créé. Dans results se trouvent les résultats des différents exercices et enfin dans my students, vous pouvez créer vos groupes et vérifier les codes à fournir aux élèves pour qu’ils puissent s’inscrire. Passons aux choses qui nous intéressent le plus, les exercices eux-mêmes. Les exercices se paramètrent très simplement et les utilisateurs de différentes solutions ne se sentiront pas perdus. Point intéressant toutefois, tous les exercices peuvent être associés à un média, photo ou vidéo avec upload de vos propres photographies ou lien youtube pour les vidéos.
Chirp 10 Educational Web Tools That Support Inquiry-based Learning September , 2015 As a learning strategy, inquiry-based learning is all about learners constructing their own understanding and knowledge through asking questions. Unlike traditional learning methods that focus primarily on drills, memorization and rote learning, inquiry-based learning is essentially student-centered. It starts with posing questions and directly involves students in challenging hands-on activities that drive students to ask more questions and explore different learning paths. In today’s post, we have assembled a collection of some useful web tools and apps that support the ethos of inquiry-based learning. 1- VideoNotes VideoNotes is a free web tool that allows students to take notes on a video they are watching. Edpuzzle allows you to use only what you need from any video, insert audio notes or record over a video with your voice, and add questions at any point in the video .3- PixiClip This is by far the most popular of them all. 7- YouTube Video Editor 9- Prezi
11 trucos de Google Drive que quizá no conocías #1 Busca en Gmail y Google Drive al mismo tiempo Si tienes Google Drive, es muy probable que tengas también Gmail. Con está función, podrás buscar documentos de Google Drive mientras usas el buscador de Gmail. Para ello, tendrás que hacer click en el botón con forma de herramienta que encontrarás arriba a la derecha. Se encuentra justo debajo de tu foto de usuario de Google Plus. Haz click en "Labs" y habilita la opción de "Búsqueda en Google Apps". ¡Y listo! #2 Buscar documentos compartidos por una persona A veces buscar documentos en Google Drive puede ser más difícil de lo que parece. En ocasiones, nos acordamos del nombre de la persona que compartió el archivo con nosotros, pero no del nombre del documento. Esto puede ser un problema más frecuente de lo que parece si trabajamos con varias personas en un mismo documento. ¿Cómo solucionarlo? ¡Así de simple! #3 Usa Google Drive como si fuese Dropbox #4 Guarda un archivo en Google Drive mientras navegas por Internet #5 Crea formularios
Best Apps for Teaching & Learning 2013 Science 360 by the National Science Foundation Level: ALL (grades K-12)Platform: iOS Website Science 360 is a science and engineering news app designed to engage the user in visual explorations through photos, videos, and text. Tip: Have students explore Science 360 for possible science project ideas and explore current science in the news. 3 Powerful iPad Apps for Creating Diagrams and Flowcharts September 6, 2015 Looking for some good iPad apps to visualize data on your iPad, the apps below have you covered. These are some handy applications you can use to create visually appealing diagrams and flowcharts and to communicate your ideas in a visually explicit way. For those of you interested in creating diagrams in Google Drive, check out these tools. 1- Venn Diagram ‘This app allows users to create Venn diagrams that contain two or three overlapping circles. 2- Lucidchart ‘Create, edit, and share beautiful diagrams, flowcharts, process maps, and more! 3- Grafio ‘Allow Grafio to become an extension of your fingertip.
Herramientas gratuitas para crear e-books y libros interactivos Los e-books o libros digitales han ganado gran relevancia hoy en día, incluso hay quienes se atreven a asegurar que tarde o temprano terminaran reemplazando a los tradicionales libros físicos que encontramos en las bibliotecas tradicionales, entonces debemos buscar la manera de ponernos al día y aprender como elaborar este tipo de archivos. El Internet es el principal responsable de la gran popularidad que tienen los e-books actualmente, en la red podemos encontrar una gran cantidad de sitios para descargar libros gratis y empresas como Amazon han logrado convertir es mercado en un negocio bastante rentable que cada vez genera mas ingresos gracias las ventajas del comercio electrónico. iBooks Author: Esta aplicación es exclusiva para sistemas Mac OS X y nos permite elaborar e-books para posteriormente disfrutar en el iPad. Fuente: UnaDocenaDe
11 Essential Tools For Better Project-Based Learning by Katre Laan from myhistro.com The rise of technology used in classrooms has made learning much more interactive. The emergence of iPads to browser-based tools in project-based learning, take teaching to a new level in the 21st century. Even the current trends in education include the use of new technology, from collaborative projects to blending traditional textbook teaching with innovative tools. For students, the core aim of project-based learning is to put theory into practice and gain new skills throughout the process. A major advantage of digital tools used is better engagement in the classroom. Browser-based tools and several apps used in education are especially useful for researching, storytelling and collaborative video making. Handy mobile devices allow students to be inspired when outside classroom by creating and sharing ideas and creations instantly. Here is a mini guide to some of the project based learning tools. 1) Mindmeister 2) Glogster 3) Myhistro 4) Pixton 5) Animoto
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Simple Tool to Create Stunning Video Animations for Your Class September 19, 2015 Biteable is a web-based tool that allows you to create beautiful explainer videos to share with your students. Explainer videos are short animated clips that make use of a wide variety of visuals and multimedia materials to communicate a message in a concise and comprehensible way. You probably have already seen some examples of Explainer videos on ads played on YouTube, several companies use this kind of videos to advertise their products. However, as a teacher, you can create explainer videos to explain key concepts, create instructional guides and tutorials to share with students and many more. You don’t need advanced video editing skills to use Biteable. Watch the video below to see Biteable in action Another great feature of Biteable is the Infographic Video Maker which allows you to make animated infographic using Biteable video maker software. Biteable is free to use.