Tag: cooltooloftheweek
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Three Ideas to Foster Self-Directedness through Learning Playlists
Good teachers don’t teach or preach. Good teachers guide learners into becoming more independent in their learning process. Though we’ve heard it a thousand times, we still find it hard to put into practice what we call autonomous learning. Sometimes it is just easier to tell our learners what to do or to do it…
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Your Mobile Site in a Few Clicks
As I was preparing one of my presentations to TESOL 2012 in Philadelphia, I dispersed a bit after much time of focused work to enjoy myself into serendipity, which took me to a very nice, simple site to create your mobile site. In a few clicks, you can have your mobile site at http://getsharesquare.com/ Here’s the…
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Cool Writing Tool of the Week – OhLife
http://ohlife.com Do you want a simple tool to invite your students to write more and keep a journal? It can be a journal about their learning experience, or their daily lives. OhLife! sends them a reminder everyday and they simply have to reply to the message by mail to have their thoughts neatly posted. If…
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Audio Delivery Made Super Simple
Want an easy way for your students to record their voices and send it to you? Do you need one single place to receive all their audio files? Audio drop box is what you are looking for. I just tested and it is worth giving it a try. you have to create an account at…
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Cool Tool of the Week – DeepZoomPix
http://bit.ly/BBd8Y Microsoft is testing an online tool called DeepZoomPix, which gives us an interesting overview to our photo albums. I chose to connect it to my Flickr account and grabbed some of my food photos. Here’s the result. Pretty neat way of visualizing images. Which of your pictures would you choose to test DeepZoomPix? Would…
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Cool Tool of the Week – My Studiyo – Creating Online Activities
Just tested My Studyio because a tweet from @GrahamStanley and @NikPeachey. What a great surprise as tomorrow I´ll be presenting about cool tools for the classroom for a group of Brazilian educators. I liked My Studyio because it´s user-friendly and very easy to register. You can have multiple choice questions with an attractive layout adding…
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Cool Tool of the Week – Toon Doo
by carlaarena | Create your own Cartoon at www.toondoo.com I’ve been a fan of Toon Doo creations, but just as a mere spectator of its creative uses mainly for pedagogical purposes. Above is my little share for a new course I’m designing. In fact, one very very cool use of Toon Doo was shared with…
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Cool Tool of the Week – A visual dictionary
Shahi – A visual dictionary | Blachan Lab Originally uploaded by carlaarena Shahi is a fantastic tool for educational use. Just type a word, you’ll see Flickr photos related to it on the left, plus explanations with examples of how the word is used. I can already picture many ways to use them with students.…
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Cool Tool of the Week – Toasting My Screen
Today, via Coolcatteacher in Twitter, I came across Screentoaster, a free online screencasting option with no need to download any apps to your computer. They are still in Beta and you need an invitation code, which I got in my email immediately after I requested it. It’s very straightforward to record your screen there following…
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Cool Tool of the Week – MoodBox
Because of a Mashable post, I decided to have some fun with the alpha service MoodBox. You draw, doodle, add photos and avatars in different backgrounds to announce to friends how you’re feeling. You have to download a desktop app, but it’s pretty straightforward and fast. At this point, you need an invitation to join.…