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In one of our classes we had to explore some tools to use in our classroom!  This were the ones that we chose :   - Wordle  : This toy generates "word clouds" from a provided text. The cloud gives greater prominance to the most frequent word.  - Checkology : A key tool for students and teachers of journalism. It helps you differenciate between trustable sources from those who are fake. - Toontastic :  This is a story telling app. It motivates children to create characters and give their characters life!  - Rewordify : Excelent tool to understand text better. It adjust wichever you are reading to your language level.  - Easy note card : A tool to create flashcards with your students. It also provides games, quizzes, puzzles and printings.  - Alternatives for YouTube: SchoolTube and TeachersTubes are safe sharing video platforms.  Both are similar to YouTube but their aim is to be manipulated only by people in ...

How to apply the learning types in our classes using technology.  The first thing to do on our check list is aim a goal.  Let´s assume our goal will be for the students to write a day in the life of a successful person. What do we have to teach them? How can we make it memorable?  Our first step (following the learning types (find it on our blog)) is remembering .  We have to construct based on the students previous knowledge. Ask questions like "What is success?" "Who is successful?"  In this step you can use apps such as AnswerGarden  * Second step is understanding .   Depending on the students age, you can give them exercises to fill in the blanks. "All successful people (have) (haven´t) (are) (aren´t) ____________."  In this step you can use the app Hot Potatoes   *  Applying is our third step. We have worked a lot during our last classes so it´s time for an assigment. Advice someone who is not succ...

Flipgrid is a video platform that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.

You can try numerous Kahoots in your classroom to test your students or to fix knowledge through games! We have used this tool to make new games for children. This are our Kahoots: Beatles Quiz for children   How well do you know The Beatles? Test your knowledge of one of the world's greatest ever band. Survey: Tourism in Argentina Know more about Argentina´s attractions. Sports Jumble Find out what you know about sports & international sport events.

VoiceThread  is a collaborative online tool that incorporates voice to the plain text. Documents can be uploaded from different sources and can be convined to create one file. This new file or folder creates a dinamism between the sources because information is constantly changing. As teachers we can use this tool to held conversations about a topic with our students.

We have started a new MOOC !  It is called ICT in Primary Eduaction: Transforming children´s learning across the curriculum. On our first week, we learned about the definition of learning types.  1- Aquisition : Learning through the senses (Listening, reading, action). Link listening with knowledge. We use this type of learning in formal educations.  2- Discussion :  Build ideas by expressing them with answers and questions (online tutorials, students seminars). As teachers we can challenge our students to answer ours or its classmates questions.  3- Investigate : Learnning though guides the learner to explore, compare and critique what she/he is being thaught. (Online resourses to compare data, books. field trips) 4- Practice : Enables the learner to adapt their actions to the task goal. This is called "Learning by doing" ( Do practice based projects, digital tools like simulators or digital games)  5- Collaboration: This type of le...

What is an hipertext ? This is a very useful tool to find information. When we read something online and click on the blue word, we are making use of the hipertext. The user is an active reader because it interacts with the text. On the possitive side, one has the option of choosing the information the one needs. However, it is very likely to loose track of the main purpouse of the original search.   Transmedia narrative - Interactive games or movies   Lineal narrative - Several paths to read.   Visual narrative - Text is supported with an image.   Multimedia narrative - Get information though different sources (BBC) .   Audiovisual narrative - Text is supported by videos and images.

The Scoop-it site enables professionals and businesses to research and publish content through its content curation tool. ' Emerging Technology Enhanced Learning Tools'  could be useful for your own teaching.

Classroom collaboration is an area that benefits directly from today's Internet experience in that students can develop their potential for learning by becoming more actively involved. Indeed, they can learn to approach and solve problems by collaborating with other students and their teachers. Social bookmarking websites give them opportunities to discover and organize information. While many social bookmarking sites offer some collaboration opportunities, Diigo (Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff) combines a user-friendly social platform with bookmarking features and functions that make it useful for the classroom, giving instructors tools for setting up groups of students, highlighting key information, and commenting.

Coursera  offers massive open online courses (MOOC), specializations, and degrees. It works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses, specializations, and degrees in a variety of subjects, such as engineering, humanities, medicine, biology, social sciences, mathematics, business, computer science, digital marketing, data science, and others.

Creative Commons licenses work as “Some rights reserved” rule instead of “All rights reserved” rule.  It offers a diverse set of license conditions – the freedoms and limitations. This allows the author to define rules on which he or she would like to share his or her creations with others.  At the same time users gain more rights to the use of his or her works.

This is a glossary of educational terminology that can be used as a guide for teachers who want to keep up with the latest trends in  pedagogy and educational technology.

                                                Kahoot is an online platform which purpouse is making learning fun! How does it work? Easy, teachers create their own kahoots. These are games or quizes that students have to answer, they can play once they have the pin that the teacher is given. This is a very useful tool to use in our classrooms and test our students throughout games!  We, as students, have worked on and with kahoot.  Here is a link to a very useful tutorial for us, the teachers to be!