Tag: images4education
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On the Ed Tech Radar – A Collection of Digital Posters Platforms for Educators
I have been part of an exciting teacher training program in the state of Rio and this week I´m exploring with teachers the possibilities of Digital Posters in the classroom. I´ve created this Padlet with some digital posters platforms that let teachers and students create wonderful digital artifacts. I thought educators might profit from it:…
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Images in the Classroom – Now and Then
I’ve always had this natural inclination to add images to whatever lesson I was teaching, and now even more so when I see the neuroscientific reason for doing it. James Zull, in his book “the Art of Changing the Brain”, mentions that “Our concrete experience contains much of the information we need for understanding, because…
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Twisting Homework Work – A tool, A thousand Ways to Engage students
She was meant to be a star. Her photos were all over, Vogue magazine, among all renowned international magazines you can think of. One day, though, … How about a bit of homework revolution for a change? Add this sentence to the board, send the photo to your students and tell them to access http://photofunia.com,…
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Images in the Classroom Series – Emotions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21204781@N07/2501994750/ My husband calls me a tourist or gadget girl. I always have a device which can help me capture the moment. First, because of my interest in photography, in getting that moment that in nanoseconds will be simply past. However, my most preement reason for being a gadget girl is that I am an…
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Images4Education in Classroom2.0 Live
“ Images4Education and EVO-Special Guest: Carla Arena – via kwout “ Yesterday I had the big pleasure to be with the girls, Peggy George, Lorna Constantini, Kim Caise and Steven Hargadon in a live session of Classroom2.0. A nice crowd probably hungry at lunch time wanted to know more about the Electronic Village Online and…
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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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Where I am From in Images4Education
family_oldphotosOriginally uploaded by carlaarenaI am from a Brazilian dream thriving on the “Planalto Central” in the middle of nowhere Brasilia I am from a Brazilian dream of hard working souls who built in five bustling migrating years on a plateau with twisted trees and low vegetation Cerrado Concrete, modernism I am from a cultural mix…
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Ning – Appropriate for Educational Purposes?
As we get ready to kick off one of the 17 Electronic Village Online sessions, Images4Education, Seth Dickens, a friend, educator, teacher trainer, raised an important issue in the Webheads group. Is Ning appropriate in the educational context? Seth ponders in his post: Thanks heavens I haven’t started using Ning with my students yet. I…
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Flickr Educational Power
As a group of wonderful, inspired educators – Alice Barr, Ana Maria Menezes, Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes, Daniela Munca, Jane Petring, João Alves, Mary Hillis, Nina Liyulkun, Ronaldo Júnior, and Susan Burg – get ready to co-moderate a free six-week online session, Images4Education, through the Electronic Village Online, I’ve been totally immersed in Flickrverse. My…