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"Facepixelizer is a specialized image editor for anonymizing images. Use Facepixelizer to quickly hide information in images that you don't want to become public. For example, you can blur out text and pixelate faces that appear in your images. Even though Facepixelizer runs in the browser, your images are secure because they never leave your browser and are never sent over the network. All the processing happens in your browser."

"Cuando la madre de Sherry Kishore, la directora de la escuela de secundaria de Emerson, en Oklahoma City, Estados Unidos, vio las imágenes de las pizarras de hace casi un siglo no pudo contener las lágrimas. La mujer de 85 años se quedó mirando fijamente a los escritos datados de diciembre de 1917 y lloró. "Dijo que era exactamente como la de su clase cuando iba a la escuela", según le confesó su hija al diario The Oklahoman. Image caption Las pizarras de 1917 fueron descubiertas al hacer unas reformas. Kishore se refería así a la reacción de la anciana, que también fue profesora en el lugar, tras el hallazgo que hicieron unos trabajadores que se disponían a hacer unas reformas en la escuela secundaria que dirige. Los escritos y dibujos se mantuvieron intactos durante casi un siglo. Según las autoridades, eso fue posible porque colocaron pizarras nuevas sobre las antiguas. Ruedas de multiplicar La placentera sorpresa que encontraron los obreros desveló escritos intactos en las pizarras con los que se enseñaban desde la historia del peregrinaje, partituras musicales, reglas para mantenerse limpio, un calendario con la cuenta atrás hasta la navidad e incluso una peculiar rueda con la tabla de multiplicar. "Nunca había visto esa técnica antes", le dijo a The Oklahoman la directora de la escuela de Emerson. Image caption La caligrafía de las pizarras era muy cuidada. Image caption En este calendario, marcaron los días que faltaban para Navidad. Image caption Así era una clase de música en 1917. Según informó la Organización de Colegios Públicos de Oklahoma City, había una clase sobre peregrinos en cada curso. "Había currículo común en 1917", explicaron. Un portavoz del departamento de educación aseguró que las autoridades trabajarán para preservar los hallazgos. La escuela secundaria de Emerson fue construida en 1895, 22 años antes de que que se hicieran los escritos de las pizarras que posteriormente fueron cubiertas por ot

"eXeLearning is an easy to use authoring tool under GPL-2+ to create educational web contents. Installing eXeLearning on Ubuntu: sudo snap install exelearning eXeLearning generates interactive contents in HTML5 and other formats and it allows you to create websites including text, images, interactive activities, image galleries, evaluating rubrics, multimedia clips, games... All the educational materials can be exported in different formats: SCORM, IMS, ePub, responsive HTML website, XLIFF... eXeLearning is available for GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Go to https://exelearning.net/ for more download options."

Hasta donde pude ver funciona muy bien, incluso el audio generado en castellano... bastante poderosa, habrá que ver hasta cuándo es gratis su uso... "Edit video as easily as editing text! Do you need to create videos from images, audio files, video clips or screen grabs? Save yourself a lot of headaches by giving all of the painful parts to Video Puppet. Video Puppet will automatically create video clips from images, align audio and video segments, add captions, and even create a life-like narration audio from your text. To top it off, you'll be able to update the video easily when your content changes."

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"... Y todas y todos sabemos por qué esto ocurre. Y ocurre porque nadie nos ha enseñado a mirar las imágenes. El problema fundamental de la potencialidad de los mundos visuales que nos rodean consiste en cómo los consumimos, porque los consumimos de manera directa y sin trabas…, porque son muy pocas las personas que desarrollan una visión crítica sobre las imágenes. Por esta razón sostengo que la potencia profundamente política de todas estas imágenes, así como su poder transformador de la sociedad, se desarticularía dando lugar a una sociedad diferente si aprender a mirar fuese considerada como una competencia básica para el mundo que tenemos, y para el que nos espera. ..."

"Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta's high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The images were taken on 2 September by the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera as the orbiter came within 2.7 km of the surface and clearly show the main body of the lander, along with two of its three legs. "

"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

1) the ways they currently implement Twitter in their teaching and learning, 2) ideas for future development of Twitter-based assignments and pedagogical practices, and 3) issues concerning the integration of Twitter and other digital media into both traditional and non-traditional pedagogies. Collaborators should feel free to add material to these pages, to comment on existing material, and to share links to relevant external readings and resources. It may be helpful to tag your contributions with your Twitter handle. Collaborators are asked to please respect this space as a forum for open and respectful dialogue and networking. Let's fill up the pages below with great ideas!  Share the ways you currently implement Twitter in your teaching and learning: Students in my course New Information Technologies do an "Internet Censorship" project, focused on a specific country. I ask them to follow a journalist who tweets on that country as part of their research to understand the state of Internet freedom in the country they select. -- Lora Since shortly after Twitter was launched, I've experimented with various iterations of "The Twitter Essay," an assignment that has students considering the nature of the "essay" as a medium and how they might do that work within the space of 140 characters. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) In my fully online classes, I've started using Twitter to replace the discussion forum as the central location for student interaction. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) Show Tweets that have gotten people arrested and prompt discussion on whether it is fair that anyone be arrested for any Tweet in the US, who is likely to be arrested for their Tweets, what kinds of Tweets are likely to prompt arrest, etc. Students in my First Year Seminar course "The Irish Imagination: Yeats to Bono" developed a platform for digital annotation of Irish literature. Embedded in their platform was a twitter feed of relevant individuals/groups, makin

Ver At School "France in the Year 2000 (XXI century) - a series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910. Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed in cigarette/cigar boxes and, later, as postcards, the images depicted the world as it was imagined to be like in the year 2000. There are at least 87 cards known that were authored by various French artists, the first series being produced for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris."

"MapMap is a free, open source software for projection mapping aimed at artists and small teams. Its intuitive interface facilitates learning and promotes artistic expression. This software is available on Windows, OSX, and Linux. MapMap gives users the ability to projection map on any surface of choice. Mapmap takes media sources and gives users the ability to manipulate the media into different positions and shapes. Media sources can come from any various accepted media formats. With an easy to understand interface, new users can get started in minutes. Projection mapping, also known as video mapping and spatial augmented reality, is a projection technology used to turn objects, often irregularly shaped, into a display surface for video projection. These objects may be complex industrial landscapes, such as buildings. By using specialized software, a two or three dimensional object is spatially mapped on the virtual program which mimics the real environment it is to be projected on. The software can interact with a projector to fit any desired image onto the surface of that object. This technique is used by artists and advertisers alike who can add extra dimensions, optical illusions, and notions of movement onto previously static objects. The video is commonly combined with, or triggered by, audio to create an audio-visual narrative."

"... Reclaiming pedagogy as a form of educated and militant hope begins with the crucial recognition that education is not solely about job training and the production of ethically challenged entrepreneurial subjects and that artistic production does not only have to serve market interests, but are also about matters of civic engagement and literacy, critical thinking, and the capacity for democratic agency, action, and change. It is also inextricably connected to the related issues of power, inclusion, and social responsibility.[2] If young people, artists, and other cultural workers are to develop a deep respect for others, a keen sense of the common good, as well as an informed notion of community engagement, pedagogy must be viewed as a cultural, political, and moral force that provides the knowledge, values, and social relations to make such democratic practices possible. In this instance, pedagogy needs to be rigorous, self-reflective, and committed not to the dead zone of instrumental rationality but to the practice of freedom and liberation for the most vulnerable and oppressed, to a critical sensibility capable of advancing the parameters of knowledge, addressing crucial social issues, and connecting private troubles into public issues. Any viable notion of critical pedagogy must overcome the image of education as purely instrumental, as dead zones of the imagination, and sites of oppressive discipline and imposed conformity. ..."

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"La evaluación es un tema crítico de la educación. Desde hace años, nuestro sistema educativo está sujeto regularmente a evaluaciones promovidas por organismos internacionales, normalmente de carácter muestral, como son las pruebas PISA, PIRLS, TIMMS, TALIS, PIAAC (pruebas por otro lado bastante diferentes entre sí tanto por lo qué miden como por quién las promueve). Además, está sometido a estadísticas e informes censales como las que realizan Eurostat, Eurydice, CEDEFOP o el INEE. A esto hay que añadir las pruebas "diagnósticas" que llevan años realizando cada administración regional. La LOMCE había además (ahora afortunadamente paralizadas) añadido tres pruebas más de base censal (para todos los alumnos), no solo de carácter diagnóstico sino también formativo y con implicaciones académicas (las llamadas reválidas). A estas pruebas, estadísticas e informes tenemos que añadir toda la evaluación que tiene lugar en los propios centros educativos y en las aulas. Es la parte más importante, sin duda. La que lleva con nosotros toda la vida y en la que todos pensamos al hablar de evaluación escolar. Cada día nuestros maestros/as, profesores/as utilizan una infinidad de instrumentos de evaluación para mejorar el aprendizaje de sus alumnos, para certificar conocimientos y niveles y para dar respuesta a las demandas de la legislación educativa. adaptive-images No se puede decir que nos falten datos. Todo lo contrario. Podemos hablar de un gran y complejo sistema de evaluación que actúa sobre todos los niveles del sistema educativo (macro, meso y micro) y en el que todas las partes están relacionadas. Una prueba como PISA puede acabar determinando la metodología de enseñanza de un maestro en un pequeño colegio rural. Una reválida o una prueba como la Selectividad determina no sólo los contenidos sino las formas de enseñar y aprender de un todo un curso como 2º Bachillerato. Por eso hablar de evaluación para el aprendizaje (la

La astronave de la NASA, Cassini, se desintegró en la atmosfera de Saturno, luego de 20 años en el espacio. Algunas de las increíbles imágenes obtenidas (incluyendo el viaje final)

" Meme Maker: una herramienta online para crear memes en vídeo (también de imágenes). Add Subtitles: nos permite añadir subtítulos a nuestros vídeos. Video Montage Maker: para crear vídeos slideshow combinando vídeos e imágenes. Video Collages: creación de collages a partir de vídeos e imágenes. Video Filters: permite aplicar bellos filtros a los vídeos y realizar diversos ajustes (brillo, saturación, contraste…). Add Text: para añadir textos o marcas de agua a nuestros vídeos. Image to Video: creación de vídeos a partir de imágenes y animaciones GIF. Reverse video: nos permite aplicar un efecto de rebobinado a nuestros vídeos. Video Resizer: para cambiar el tamaño de cualquier vídeo. Loop Video: efecto de loop o repetición para tus vídeos. Trim Video: para cortar y recortar vídeos. Mute Video: permite eliminar el sonido de cualquier vídeo en apenas unos clics. Stop Motion Maker: transforma tus contenidos en un vídeo stop motion."

Interesantes fichas didácticas para educar en el uso de la red.

Con el centro en general y en especial he pensado en dos de mis grupos de INGLÉS