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Antonio Amores Ortiz

Five Best Language Learning Tools - 0 views

  • Anki, Japanese for "memorizing," is a flashcard program that's been around for years
  • Because it's a flashcard style program, its focus is on memorization. It'll display you a word, phrase, image, or even play a sound, and then leave it to you to make the connection, repeat it, interpret it, and commit it to memory. Anki is great for languages, but it's also useful for studying equations, diagrams, names and faces, and more—its strength is in the fact that you can load it up with custom card sets depending on what it is you want to memorize.
  • Anki is free
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  • Memrise is a language learning program that extends beyond vocabulary and language to things like history and science, but at its core it's a flashcard-style program that's augmented with memory tricks, images, and other useful tools to make learning a new language easier.
  • Duolingo takes a different approach to learning a new language than just memorizing words and phrases.
  • The Pimsleur Method is an audio-based method that focuses on participation in speaking and sound exercises than strict memorization and flashcards.
  • Livemocha is an extremely comprehensive language learning community and program, packed with native speakers
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    Five tools language learning
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    Five tools language learning
Antonio Amores Ortiz

5 Online Tools to Align Lessons to Common Core Standards - 0 views

  • 5 Online Tools That Help You Align Lessons to Common Core Standards
  • Teaching Objects is an online lesson planner that enables you to pull materials from your Google Drive and YouTube accounts into your lesson plans.
  • Alchemy SmartBinder is a free service for creating, organizing, and sharing lessons. With an Alchemy SmartBinder account teachers can create lessons that include text, images, videos, audio files, and web links.
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  • Common Curriculum is an online lesson planning resource that aims to help you align your lessons to Common Core standards.
  • OpenEd is a site that claims to be the world's largest educational resource catalog.
  • MasteryConnect
  • they offer a good system for tracking your students' mastery of Common Core standards. Second, they provide a great community of educators who are connecting and sharing lesson ideas. And third, MasteryConnect now offers a curriculum mapping tool that allows you to easily connect your current lessons and curriculum to Common Core and or state standards.
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    Apps to help with  common core and standards
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    Apps to help with  common core and standards
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    Apps to help with  common core and standards
rmissel

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 - 0 views

  • The Top 100 Tools for Learning was compiled from the votes of over 500 learning professionals in workplace learning and education from 48 countries worldwide in the 7th Annual Survey, by Jane Hart, Centre for Learning & Peformance Technologies
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    slide show with tips, tricks, and tools for technology-involved learning
Antonio Amores Ortiz

6 Resources for Educators - 1 views

  • Digital Citizenship Week: 6 Resources for Educators
  • Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum for K-12 (4):
  • Understanding YouTube and Digital Citizenship (6):
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  • Digital Citizenship Learning Center from CyberWise (7): CyberWise produced an extensive list of digital citizenship resources, including videos, games and toolkits from a variety of sources.
  • Cable in the Classroom’s Digital Citizenship Resources (11): Cable in the Classroom (CIC) is a one-stop-shop for digital citizenship resources for teachers.
  • BrainPop Jr. Spotlight -- Free Digital Citizenship Resources (13): BrainPop's Digital Citizenship resource page is perfect for younger students, and there are two sections on bullying and Internet safety.
  • Digital Citizenship Teaching Channel Video Overviews (14):
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    Digital tools resources to use in class
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    Digital tools resources to use in class
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    Digital tools resources to use in class
rmissel

11 Virtual Tools for the Math Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Whether you’re teaching elapsed time or just helping students monitor their pacing and stamina, the timer built into the clock that comes with the iPad (or one of the many comparable options (11)) is a great addition to your classroom.
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    lower elementary math tools found on iPad, online, etc
Antonio Amores Ortiz

Out There: Presentations prepare future speakers (with video) | Daily Tribune Media | w... - 0 views

  • Basically, what happens (is there is) a real-world problem that’s presented to the students, and they go through a process to solve this,” he said. “In this case, the 4K teacher at Vesper needed help teaching her kids what they can expect to see in kindergarten.”
  • The children used several ways to prepare their short and sweet presentations, including ways posters can be made by hand and online, using an educational program called Glogster.“They used Twitter to communicate with another kindergarten class in Texas, and we talked about our similarities and differences,” Novinska said. “It’s kind of the new way of having pen pals.”
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    Technology tools Glogster Twiter
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    Technology tools Glogster Twiter
Antonio Amores Ortiz

How to Learn Spanish (using free online resources!)Spanish Learning Resources & Tools: ... - 0 views

  • A modern source of Spanish in a form that you enjoy using
  • Dictionaries and a verb conjugation tool or book
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    Dictionaries in Spanish translate webs
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    Dictionaries in Spanish translate webs
Antonio Amores Ortiz

Keep Organized Planners - 2 views

  • Keep Organized w/ Awesome Planners from
  • Finding the Perfect Planner:
  • reached out to Erin Condren through her site asking if I could review a planner in exchange for one to trial.  They gifted me a certificate so that I could build my own planner through their site.  I went all out.  I added extra pages, more checklists, additional clear sleeves, an extra notepad and more.
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    Tool order and teaching planner
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    Tool order and teaching planner
rmissel

Five Ways Assistive Technology Helps Those With Down Syndrome | Concordia University - ... - 0 views

  • But since federal legislation requires students with learning disabilities be educated in the same manner (and often the same classrooms) as other children, there has been a need for modifications and tools to assist special needs students in meeting their educational goals.
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    Not 5 tools but 5 ways (convincing)
Antonio Amores Ortiz

eQuizShow Makes Create Jeopardy-style Games - 0 views

  • eQuizShow Makes It Easy to Create Jeopardy-style Games
  • To build your quiz just enter a title, an administrative password, and your question categories. eQuizShow will then generate a grid on which you can enter questions and answers.
  • If you don't have time to build a quiz or you just need some inspiration, browse the eQuizShow gallery.
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  • Applications for Education eQuizShow works well on interactive whiteboards. If you have an interactive whiteboard, using eQuizShow could be a good way to display questions and answers to students during a review session.
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    web tool to create Jeopardy games, your own game or using the gallery of games
marathonman1313

Free Technology for Teachers: eQuizShow Makes It Easy to Create Jeopardy-style Games - 0 views

  • offers an easy way for teachers to create Jeopardy-style review games. Unlike similar tools you do not have to download or upload any PowerPoint files to use eQuizShow. On eQuizShow you can build and display your quiz completely online. To build your quiz just enter a title, an administrative password, and your question categories. eQuizShow will then generate a grid on which you can enter questions and answers.
  • If you don't have time to build a quiz or you just need some inspiration, browse the eQuizShow gallery. When you play the games you have the option to assign points to up to six teams playing the game. You can also play without awarding points.
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    Quick way to make a review game for a upcoming test
marathonman1313

A Tip for Teaching Tenacity and Teamwork - Coach G's Teaching Tips - Education Week Tea... - 0 views

  • Give each group two plastic cups, one green and one red, and advise students to keep one inside the other in the center of their table (or adjoining desks), with the red cup on the outside when a group needs your help and the green on the outside when it doesn't. I love this idea for a few reasons. First, it lets teachers see from anywhere in the room which groups need help at any given time. Second, it's a concrete way to uphold a key to promoting independent and interdependent learning: only helping students if they've exhausted all other available resources including each other.
  • Best of all, the cups help students develop important non-cognitive (or character) traits/skills such as self-determination and collaboration. At first, for example, some students are quicker than others to give up and reach for a red cup. But more often than not, one (or more) of their fellow group members will protest: "Hey, change that back to green." Over time, this I'm-not-ready-to-give-up-and-ask-the-teacher mentality becomes contagious, and students are more persistent. They're also more motivated to reach out to each other for help. Who would have thought a couple of plastic cups could inspire such tenacity and teamwork?
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    Helpful teaching tool to establish teamwork in any group 
Antonio Amores Ortiz

5 Free Apps and Sites for Creating Short Animations - 0 views

  • ABCya Animate from ABCya (disclosure, an advertiser here)allows students to create animated GIFs containing up to 100 frames.
  • Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street is a neat tool for creating animated stop motion movies.
  • Draw Island is a free online tool for creating drawings and simple GIF animations. Draw Island offers you your choice of four canvas sizes on which you can draw.
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  • Wideo is a service that allows anyone to create animated videos and Common Craft-style videos online. You can create an animated video on Wideo by dragging and dropping elements into place in the Wideo editor
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    Apps to create videos in different ways
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    Apps to create videos in different ways
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    Apps to create videos in different ways
Antonio Amores Ortiz

Web 2.0 Teaching Tools: ClassTools.net - 0 views

  • Classtools.net provides free, customisable flash templates to embed into blogs, wikis and websites. There is no signup, no passwords, no charges...This is very cool for anyone who teaches online or has a class website.
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    Web, you can create games introducing questions
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    Web, you can create games introducing questions
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    Web, you can create games introducing questions
Meghan Brooks

Accidentally Creating a Digital Writing Workshop | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Technology was now a part of our learning -- technology to research, explore, create and share. It was natural for the children to use chart paper, markers, their voices, iPads and computers. There was never a choice to use technology or not use technology, but rather to think about what tool would support their objective.
  • I saw the benefits of how technology could engage my learners, encourage collaboration, and provide meaningful project ideas to spark curiosity and exploration.
  • Some chose paper, some chose an iPad. I learned that introducing the students to a variety of tools allowed each child to have more creative choice.
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    teacher uses virtual zoo to help kids writing reports on animals!
marathonman1313

Free Technology for Teachers: How Flubaroo Helps Teachers Save Time - 0 views

  • If your school uses Google Apps for Education, when you have students take quizzes that you've created through Google Forms, have your students sign into their accounts before taking the quiz. That way you will capture their email addresses and be able to quickly email grades to them after you have run the Flubaroo script to grade the quiz. If your school doesn't use Google Apps for Education you can still require email addresses by making "email address" a required question on the quizzes you create in Google Forms.
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    Helps teachers manage their time when grading assignments/tests
marathonman1313

Free Technology for Teachers: Stipple - Create and Search for Interactive Images - 0 views

  • Stipple is a new service that allows you to create interactive images. The service launched in closed beta during the summer. Since the summer Stipple has left beta and has added a free iPhone app for creating interactive images on the go. Using Stipple you can upload an image and tag it with pinmarks. Within each pinmark you can include videos, links, text, audio files, and more images. Stipple also gives you the option to track where your images are viewed and shared by others. The video below provides an overview of Stipple's features.
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    Helps teachers make interactive images for their class
marathonman1313

Free Technology for Teachers: Studying Through Text Messages - 0 views

  • Here's how it works; students sign-up on Study Boost and link their favorite IM service or SMS (mobile number) to their Study Boost accounts. Then students create batches of questions or find batches of questions made by others. After creating and or selecting batches of questions students "activate" those questions. Activating a batch of questions means that those questions will be sent via IM or SMS at intervals specified by the student. Students answer the questions and get feedback via IM or SMS.
  • Study Boost could be a good service for students to use to study on the go. Using Study Boost students traveling for club or sports activities need to only take their mobile devices with them study. As a teacher you can register and submit batches of questions that your students can study. Or students can create their own sets of questions to study.
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    A resource that can help students be more effiecient when studying
Meghan Brooks

Smart Technology May Help Kids With Autism Learn, Communicate - US News and World Report - 0 views

  • new Canadian research suggests that smart technologies such as the iPad and iPod may also serve as therapeutic tools for a very specific group: children with autism.
  • We have heard from many parents about how much their children enjoy mobile devices like the iPad, and how it is helping with learning and communication,
Meghan Brooks

Keep Your Content Fresh With Scoop.it | The Edublogger - 0 views

  • (1) combining clever curation tools that make it easy to gather content in one place with (2) a reasonably wide range of sharing functionalities to let people know about your page.
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