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This article points out in multiple ways and with some interesting supporting data how big is the problem for schools and educational institutions in trying to identify relevant tools to adopt in absence of expert trusted guides that they can rely on.

The Hechingerreport writes: "...school leaders on this new frontier face a daunting challenge: from the slew of highly touted new products, how do they pick the right ones?

“It’s hard for our people to know what all of the choices are,” said Penny Hodge, the assistant superintendent of budget and finance in Roanoke. “Maybe there were even better choices and we weren’t aware.”

Today’s school leaders must navigate a market with little trustworthy evidence to show what works. Billions of dollars are being spent while educators try to untangle a maze of sales pitches."

The problem of identifying the most appropriate tools, services or products is not a problem limited only to the education sector. Just about anyone who is not an tech-expert in his area would have a hard time today finding the most appropriate tools in the midst of so many offerings and so little trustworthy information about them.

"Part of the reason is that credible evidence often isn’t available. Only one-third of school technology directors surveyed said that education technology companies offer reliable data on their products, according to the survey."

The solution to this issue is already starting to emerge in the form of both non-profit and commercial companies who will devote their time and resources to scout, test, verify and review tools while providing the means to search, filter and compare them easily.

Graphite.org, Edshelf are just two among many emerging examples of "reputable curation websites, with professional reviews and a social media component" that provide a one-stop solution for those in need of an expert and trusted guide in the tools for education area.

Must read for anyone interested in better understanding where we are headed when it comes to choosing tools.. 9/10

Full article: http://hechingerreport.org/as-market-surges-schools-struggle-to-find-the-best-tech-products/ 

Check also this excellent head-to-head comparison between Graphite and EdShelf: http://www.psla.org/blog/edshelf-vs-graphite/ 

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Writing doesn´t have to be a tedious process and we can enhance it with some tools.  

It might develop some creativity too!

Using comic strips is one powerful way to get students excited and motivated about the writing act. Students love to interact with visuals and tools such as the ones listed below will empower them to do just that. Using these comic strip generators , students will get  to engage in conversations using cartoonic characters and build stories and share their works with each other.

I like these ideas! Teaching comic strip writing can be lots of fun!

A tool like this is a must-have for anyone who wants to include video clips in presentations. Relying on a network connection is just too scary!

para desc videos

Robin Good has done a phenomenal job of gathering content discovery tools and putting them into categories for easy search and even easier use.

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This is an Off-Topic but interesting !

FREE tools!

This site has a video that introduces educators to 101 technical tools that will help teacher use educational technology effectively in the classroom and beyond,

Great resource for technology in the classroom.

Internet can be used as the best classroom for students and teachers, where we've tons of facilities to take the advantages from, to enhance the students capabilities and to facilitate the teachers, There're social media tools to use and get educators into interaction environment.
Social Media tools for teachers and students are the online learning tools that enhance students creativities, facilitate the teachers, and to work collaboratively.

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Una guía muy interesante!

Integrate different web tools into Bloom's thinking levels.

More ways to use Bloom's Digital Taxonomy

tenho usado bloom para desenvolvimento das atividades on line e estou urtindo os resultados.

cada vez es mas sencillo crear tu propio curso online...e incluso tu propia colección de cursos

A couple of great finds from master Curator Robin Good. As he notes

"This is an interesting trend as in the past most tools to deliver educational content relied on the author creating and posting only his own materials. The fact that you can now include valuable content published by others opens up the gates both for the curation of lots of existing content into useful learning courses as well as for the issues of whether and how to compensate curated content from others"

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A new list of the most popular digital presentation tools available.

And a very helpful list of advantages and disadvantages for any of the tools.

Lots of great tools here!

Traduco liberamente la recensione di Robin Good dall'inglese.  

Spiegare cosa sia la content curation - cura dei contenuti a qualcuno che non lo sa non è semplice dato che vi sono molte definizioni, articoli, concezioni e interpretazioni che la riguardano.

Per offire un aiuto a chi avesse necessità di spiegare la content curation sono qui presentati 5 gruppi di risorse:

1) Content Curation - Definizioni

raccolta delle migliori definizioni di content curation

http://bundlr.com/b/content-curation-definition

2) Content Curation -video

30 brevi clips video che introducono alla content curation

http://huzzaz.com/collection/content-curation-what-is-it

3) Content Curation - infografiche 

oltre 110 infografiche che spiegano cosa sia la content curation

http://www.pinterest.com/robingood/content-curation-visualized/

4) Content Curation - strumenti

oltre 100 tra i migliori strumenti per la content curation

http://contentcuration.zeef.com/

5) Mappa sugli strumenti per la content Curation - collezione di strumenti

più di 600 strumenti per la content curation (organizzazione pubblicazione, categorizzazione, scoperta, ecc)

http://bit.ly/ContentCurationToolsSupermap

Never heard of it - must be worth sharing :)

This link is invaluable to support an understanding of content curation. 

Infographics is a very interesting way of presenting information. Students can really learn to dig deep into specific information and facts and create infographics to show what they have learned. GREAT!!!!!

"The goal of the system is to help students distill the most important pieces of information from any given text and form a conclusion."

Awesome tool for student projects.

I guide my students to good content curators now to filter and speed up their searches.

Introducing Scoop.it! to students for almost all kinds of research.

This infographic looks at Project Based Learning (PBL) and divides it into three main sections:

* Organize and co-ordinate work

* Build background knowledge & inspire

* Co-design *making*

The second and third areas are then decided to more clearly deliniate the areas each covers. The last final two sections provide more specific concepts of what it required and also one or more suggestions of tech tools that will assist the process. There are additional groupings as shown in the infographic above.

More and more teachers are engaging in some form of PBL and this visual may serve as a great base to help create a strong foundation and provide ideas of technology tools that might assist in the process.

http://www.edudemic.com/a-detailed-visual-guide-to-distributed-project-based-learning/

I really like this resources because it shows where students are getting information for their projects.  The projects are learned through resources that are distributed across many different fields, websites, and search engines.  This allows students to engage in many different types of content curation sites.  Google and skype are a few examples of resources.  The visual is broken up into instant learning and coalitious segments showing how some sites are good for overlapping purposes.  This is an interesting view of PBL sources.