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Antonio Amores Ortiz

Membership, policy, and professional development for educators - ASCD - 0 views

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    Smartbrief K-12 resources for classes and to professional improve
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A New Role for Avatars: Learning Languages - 0 views

  • A New Role for Avatars: Learning Languages
  • with  more sophisticated technology, another theory around language learning is being tested: the use of avatars to practice speaking.
  • Companies like Second Life and Middlebury Interactive Languages both offer digital avatar programs to give language learners a chance to practice their skills in virtual environments.
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  • Teachers and students can give their character a voice by using one of three methods: text to speech, recording by microphone, or uploading their own pre-recording audio file. Voki characters can speak in over 25 languages, and 150-plus voices, according to Eric Kiang, Voki’s Product and Marketing Manager.
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    Using Avatars to add voice and character to learning language
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Digital Storytelling in the Spanish Language Classroom - 0 views

  • Digital Storytelling in the Spanish Language Classroom
  • We started with the students writing an autobiographical essay describing themselves and where they are in their lives right now
  • Photo Story 3 makes movies by stringing together still photographs with music or narration.
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  • Having practiced with Photo Story 3 and having explored the technique of telling a story through still photos, students used Photo Story 3 to turn their digital audio presentations into digital video
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    Example and process to make a digital storytelling with Photo Story 3
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60 Educational Game Sites - 0 views

  • 60 Educational Game Sites That You’ve Probably Never Seen
  • the site is an amazing resource,
  • These aren’t in order of greatness – they all have their own specific applications for education
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    A list of Educational Games Sites that can use in different classes
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BrainPOP | Science - 0 views

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    Web with a multiple use and subject
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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
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Learn Spanish with Notes in Spanish Podcasts! : Notes in Spanish - Learn Spanish with P... - 0 views

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    Web with audio to learn Spanish
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    Web with audio to learn Spanish
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Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish - The University of Iowa - 0 views

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    Phonetic program to learn how to pronounce the different sounds in different language
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    Phonetic program to learn how to pronounce the different sounds in different language
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Digital Storytelling with Glogster - 0 views

  • Digital Storytelling with Glogster EDU A part of teaching is storytelling. As a teacher, you tell the story of the world around you. The history, the mechanics, the reasoning behind everything that your students observe and wonder about.
  • Great digital storytelling gives more than the facts: it gives a bit of atmosphere as well.
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    Glogster ideas in class
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    Glogster ideas in class
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Ideas for Using iPads for Digital Storytelling - 0 views

  • Ideas for Using iPads for Digital Storytelling
  • Use them for creative expression, communicating information, entertaining, expressing comprehension, tutoring purposes, and much more.
  • If you own an iPad, you have access to a host of apps and tools for creating digital stories
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  • Create a narrated slide-show story to demonstrate the understanding of new vocabulary. •  Use a video or screencast (a recording of interactions on a computer or iPad display) to explain a complex scientific concept. •  Create an audio or video interview of your grandparents for a family history project. •  Create a historical narrative of a pivotal event using images and audio. •  Create a first-person audio journal of a person who lived during a significant event in history. •  Explain a mathematical concept by creating a screencast tutorial. •  Use audio podcasting to practice reading and speaking in a foreign language. •  Demonstrate a portfolio of work with personal narrative describing each piece, its objectives, and development. •  Narrate a character story or a personal journal with a musical soundtrack.
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    Ideas IPads Storytelling and how to use in  class
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    Ideas IPads Storytelling and how to use in  class
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BookWriter: Turn your Digital Storytelling into Printable Books - 0 views

  • BookWriter: Turn your Digital Storytelling into Printable Books!
  • Book Writer ($3.99) is an educational iOS app designed for the iPad/iPhone for creating multimedia digital books.
  • This is a fantastically simple app to use for students that has them creating dynamic digital books by the tap of a button. A user can add video, images, music, and even record their own voice to narrate a book.
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  • Children can take photos on a field trip, add text to demonstrate their learning, and annotate their voice to pages to bring learning alive in real time.
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    Create story students can add pictures, music and their own voice. Spanish story create
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    Create story students can add pictures, music and their own voice. Spanish story create
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Bitstrips Creates Comic Strips For Facebook - 0 views

  • How You Can Create Those Personalized Comic Strips That Are Popping Up All Over Facebook
  • How You Can Create Those Personalized Comic Strips That Are Popping Up All Over Facebook
  • they're using Bitstrips, an app that lets you create an avatar version of yourself and your friends and put them in a cartoon strip that you can share with your social network.
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    create comic to use in class assignment
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    create comic to use in class assignment 
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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
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Remix concept in Digital Storytelling with Glogster EDU | Perpetual Evolution - 0 views

  • Glogster EDU is a Web 2.0 global education platform that allows students to easily upload pre-existing materials such as photos, videos, text and audio combine them into new forms according to their personal taste to create interactive online multimedia posters. It brings digital storytelling to life in a multidimensional experience by infusing all types of media into the process. These activities also encourage students to be independent, inventive problem solvers and lifelong learners by: Giving them diverse options for acquiring information and knowledge; Providing them with options for demonstrating what they know; Tapping into their interests, offering appropriate challenges and increasing motivation.
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 10/08/2013 - 0 views

  • I noticed that Wikispaces included Dogo books under a new "Education" category in the widget menu. (This looks like a television on the edit bar when you click to Edit a wiki.) So, Dogobooks is a place where kids ar writing book reviews about everything. Very cool. You can see the most popular books and ti also has book clubs and other ways for kids
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    Education in wikispaces
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    Education in wikispaces
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Chat and real-time collaboration - 0 views

  • When you’re viewing or working on something in Google Drive and somebody else opens the same file, you’ll see his or her Google+ profile picture appear in the top-right corner of your browser window. (If the person doesn't have a Google+ profile picture, you'll see their first initial. If the person's viewing the item anonymously, they'll be assigned an animal name and image.) As more people open the document, more profile images appear. If you hover over a profile image, you’ll see information about the viewer pulled from his or her Google+ profile, and you can add the person to one of your Google+ circles with a click.
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    Google chat in assainments
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    Google chat in assainments
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    Google chat
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The Creative Language Class - 0 views

  • For the last year, I have been using my iPad to teach. I wanted to mirror the iPad to the projector wirelessly. I thought about Apple TV, but it would cost at least $150 after buying adapters. Then I found the “Reflector” application/program and it has changed my life. Visit Reflector to download the program and details.
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    Reflector program ipad computer smart board no cable
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    Reflector program ipad computer smart board no cable
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    Different activities in a world language class
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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
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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
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What Can We Learn From the Global Effort Around Mobile Learning? | MindShift - 0 views

  • Vosloo says even phones that only have texting (SMS) and calling functions can be useful for learning. “The main thing to remember is not that we’re going to deliver a whole textbook or learning experience by SMS,” he said. “The idea is what does SMS do well?” UNESCO has used texts to send reminders, for school administration purposes or to send small bits of content to students.
  • Another program called BBC Janala in Bangladesh taught English to adults with audio. Students would call a number, listen to a three minute audio lesson and leave a message. The program used voice recognition software and texting for assessment. Again, a deal with the telecommunications provider kept the calls low cost.
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    Mobile using txt
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    Mobile using txt
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