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"A webinar can take many forms, such as a meeting, presentation, or workshop. The main difference between running a webinar and simply posting a video is the interactive component the former offers. Attendees typically view webinars in real time, and there is often the option for them to participate by asking and/or answering questions. This type of seminar offers an excellent opportunity to add a personal touch to your platform and engage your customers. For example, Neil Patel uses webinars frequently to reach out to visitors of his traffic growing website. Step #1: Create a Google Account Step #2: Create a New Event in YouTube Live Step #3: Customize Your Webinar Step #4: Embed Your Webinar in Your WordPress Website Step #5: Invite Attendees Step #6: Broadcast Your Webinar"

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Muy interesante herramienta para pasar tablas de datos a visualizaciones gráficas, en vectores y personalizables... "RAW works with tabular data (i.e. information which is possible to record or track in a spreadsheet). There are many ways you can upload your data in RAW: Dropping a plain text file containing delimiter-separated values such as .csv or .tsv. File extension does not matter, as long as you use one of these delimters: comma, semicolon, tab or colon. Copying and pasting your data from a spreadsheet (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Google Docs, Apple Numbers...) or a text file. This is particularly helpful when you do not want to (or can not) export your data any time you change it or when you want to use only specific columns. Typing your data directly into the text area. While it is unlikely to use this option, it can be useful for editing your data."

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"As an educator who is addicted to Twitter I have always read about students getting introduced to Twitter and wondered how it would work. After reading and reading I have finally decided to give it a go. Here is my introduction to Twitter in my classroom. Last Tuesday, the day started like any other. Roll call, discussion, introduction to an activity and a bit of a laugh with my Year 7 and 8 Technology class. We had been discussing the importance of being an active online user and being a positive digital citizen (the students are preparing some presentations for Year 2-3 children later in the term). The conversation moved into learning environments and we discussed the small and "un-student friendly" (their words) environment that they were currently sitting in. "Take the teachable moment and run with it" my inner, energetic teacher yelled from my shoulder. So there we were talking about the "Ultimate Learning Environment", when one of my students asked me "Why is social media so big?". Good question I thought, why is it 'so big'. So we unpacked that question and broke it down. We talked about Social Media and what it was and how it worked, they gave me excellent examples and we tied it back into our discussion about digital citizenship. From this point, as a class, we decided we would use social media to help us with our learning. The students had no idea how it could work. I suggested twitter and how I use it. We pulled up my profile and saw how it worked (discussion only). The decision was then made -> Let's ask the twitterverse to help us!! On rolled Monday 5th May and in our first class (I see this group twice a week) we decided that tomorrow would be the day, we would ask twitter for their advice on "What makes a GREAT learningenvironment?". The students already have some fantastic ideas and a plan of where they want to see their environment heading but they needed some depth to their plan and some other opinions outside of

"It seems only fitting to explore the role of questions in education by asking questions about the process of doing so. I propose that we start with the customary way of framing this topic and then proceed to questions that are deeper and potentially more subversive of traditional schooling. 1. WHICH QUESTIONS? To begin, let's consider what we might ask our students. The least interesting questions are those with straightforward factual answers. That's why a number of writers have encouraged the use of questions described variously as "true" (Wolf, 1987), "essential" (Simon, 2002), "generative" (Perkins, 1992; Perrone, 1998), "guiding" (Traver, 1998), or "fertile" (Harpaz & Lefstein, 2000). What the best of these share is that they're open-ended. Sometimes, in fact, no definitive right answer can be found at all. And even when there is one - or at least when there is reason to prefer some responses to others - the answer isn't obvious and can't be summarized in a sentence. Why is it so hard to find a cure for cancer? Do numbers ever end? Why do people lie? Why did we invade Vietnam? Grappling with meaty questions like these (which were among those generated by a class in Plainview, NY) is a real project . . . literally. A question-based approach to teaching tends to shade into learning that is problem- (Delisle, 1997) and project-based (Kilpatrick, 1918; Blumenfeld et al., 1991; Wolk, 1998). Intellectual proficiency is strengthened as students figure out how to do justice to a rich question. As they investigate and come to understand important ideas more fully, new questions arise along with better ways of asking them, and the learning spirals upwards. Guiding students through this process is not a technique that can be stapled onto our existing pedagogy, nor is it something that teachers can be trained to master during an in-service day. What's required is a continual focus on creating a classroom that is about thinking rather

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"Open with a question or two. Another favorite education writer of mine, the cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham, argues that teachers should focus more on the use of questions. "The material I want students to learn," he writes in his book Why Don't Students Like School?, "is actually the answer to a question. On its own, the answer is almost never interesting. But if you know the question, the answer may be quite interesting." My colleague Greg Weiner, an associate professor of political science, puts those ideas into practice. At the beginning of class, he shows four or five questions on a slide for students to consider. Class then proceeds in the usual fashion. At the end, he returns to the questions so that students can both see some potential answers and understand that they have learned something that day. What did we learn last time? A favorite activity of many instructors is to spend a few minutes at the opening of class reviewing what happened in the previous session. That makes perfect sense, and is supported by the idea that we don't learn from single exposure to material - we need to return frequently to whatever we are attempting to master.But instead of offering a capsule review to students, why not ask them to offer one back to you?Reactivate what they learned in previous courses. Plenty of excellent evidence suggests that whatever knowledge students bring into a course has a major influence on what they take away from it. So a sure-fire technique to improve student learning is to begin class by revisiting, not just what they learned in the previous session, but what they already knew about the subject matter.Write it down. All three of the previous activities would benefit from having students spend a few minutes writing down their responses. That way, every student has the opportunity to answer the question, practice memory retrieval from the previous session, or surface their prior knowledge - and not just the students most likely to

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"El artículo de hoy quiere incidir en la importancia de diferenciar entre la perfección y la excelencia. Es más, quiere incidir en el peligro de buscar la perfección y el reto que implica la enseñanza desde la excelencia. La escuela de hoy es una escuela que busca a cualquier precio la perfección de tus alumnos y se olvida completamente de que lo importante no es ser perfectos, sino correctos. Excelencia Imagen extraída de Shutterstock La perfección como enemiga de la excelencia. Enseñar desde la perfección es un error. ¿Por qué? Aquí tienes mis razones: La perfección siempre busca lo inalcanzable. La perfección es limitada. La perfección es programada. La perfección implica que nunca se es lo suficientemente bueno. La perfección fomenta la procrastinación, es decir, se acaban retrasando actividades o situaciones que son prioritarias por otras menos relevantes. La perfección teme el error y el fracaso. La perfección conlleva ser codicioso y envidioso. La perfección relega a un segundo plano lo ético y lo moral. La perfección fomenta el individualismo. La perfección no reconoce las limitaciones de uno mismo. La perfección mina la autoestima. La perfección prima el resultado. La excelencia como reto. Enseñar desde la excelencia es el reto que deberías asumir como docente. ¿Por qué? Aquí tienes mis razones: La excelencia se centra no en lo perfecto, sino en lo correcto. La excelencia ve en el error un proceso más del aprendizaje. La excelencia no conoce límites y siempre tiene margen para la mejora. La excelencia es espontánea. La excelencia es un ejercicio de generosidad porque se centra en lo que puedes dar y no en lo que te gustaría poseer. La excelencia mejora la autoestima y ayuda al crecimiento personal a partir de la confianza depositada en uno mismo. La excelencia valora el proceso. Excelencia La escuela de hoy, la escuela en la que enseñas

"Un vídeo del que he aprendido no una, sino varias lecciones. Un vídeo que trata sobre la increíble, pero cierta, historia de la Mariposa de Austin. Un vídeo que ahora comparto con todos vosotros y que espero que os atrape como lo ha hecho conmigo. Te pediré en este artículo que tengas la paciencia de visualizar todo el vídeo hasta el final. Su duración es de unos seis minutos, pero sin su visualización creo que la lectura del artículo perderá buena parte de su sentido. Se trata de un vídeo en inglés que nos está subtitulado, pero te aseguro que no te será ningún problema seguirlo, ya que unas pocas nociones de inglés son suficientes para disfrutar plenamente de él. La excelencia educativa. A propósito de Austin. El vídeo trata sobre una mariposa que debe dibujar Austin. Un maestro cuenta y enseña a unos alumnos de segundo grado -siete años- el proyecto de una mariposa que los alumnos de primer grado, entre ellos Austin, realizaron en clase. Austin es un chico norteamericano que cursa primer grado -seis años- de un pueblo llamado Boise perteneciente al estado de Idaho. En su clase él y sus compañeros estudian las mariposas y es por ello que deben realizar un proyecto sobre ellas. El proyecto consiste en dibujar una mariposa a partir del modelo de una fotografía y desde una perspectiva científica. Concretamente, la mariposa que debe dibujar Austin responde al nombre de 'tiger swallowtail'. excelencia educativa Imagen bajo licencia Creative Commons En su primer intento, Austin no acierta del todo con su dibujo y está lejos de aproximarse a la fotografía. Su maestro reconoce que no está mal, pero todavía no se acerca a la mariposa de la fotografía. Aún así la respuesta es: 'Austin, buen comienzo'. Para poder mejorarla, Austin se servirá de las críticas y aportaciones de sus compañeros de clase. Son sus compañeros los que le dicen lo que deberá mejorar de cara a su segundo modelo de mariposa. Austin mejora en su s

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