Diigo: Social Bookmarking

You can also get your Diigo icon in your Chrome search bar, looking for DIIGO extension in Chrome . Look at the image below.

Diigo is a very interesting tool to save useful URLs with a click from your computer or your mobile phone (download Diigo app from Google Store to your smartphone. It is very easy)

Twitter for teacher

Twitter is a new way of communicating. We say "new" but in fact more than 255 million users of Twitter are active in the net monthly.

As a teacher, we should, at least, know how Twitter works. Most of our teenager students use Twitter to communicate. Besides, it is a rich source of teaching materials and an interactive platform for professionals. 

Create your account and start tweeting!

Add-ons for Drive

In our seminar we have been seeing some of the add-ons that can be useful for our teaching practice.

• The Thesaurus is a good tool when writing a text in English.
• Mind-meister helps us create mind-maps in an easy and fast way.
• With Texthelp study skills we can underline important parts of a text and share with our students. 

Apart from these add-ons, you can chat online with other people that share that document with you and comment on words underlined by you.

VOICETHREAD

QR codes

They come to us from Japan where they are very common. QR is short for Quick Response (they can be read quickly by a cell phone). They are used to take a piece of information from a transitory media and put it in to your mobile phone or tablet. Previously you need to download a qr code reader to your telephone from Google Play, for example QR droid. 
We can generate a qr code from a plain text, a url, a sms, a telephone, a location etc. We can use some qr code generator free from the Internet (unitag, qrcode kaywa).

Here I let you a prezzi presentation where you can see school project with qr codes

KET for schools

https://sites.google.com/a/b06berritzegunea.com/b06ket/

Photo Story 3

Microsoft Photo Story is a free application that allows users to create a visual story (show and tell presentation) from their digital photos. You can download from the Internet if you have Microsoft pack in you computer. Some of the features of this application are:

• You can edit your pictures online
• You can add titles to each picture
• You can narrate your pictures and add motion to them.
• You can customize motion and duration
• You can customize transition
• You can add background music

Some tips to improve our browsers and a useful program.

Browser extensions are small "programs" that let you add new features to your browser. This means that you can customize your browser with the features that are most important to you (from capturing web pages to downloading videos, or correcting text online)

The browsers we are going to use are Mozilla and Chrome. Each of them has its own extension. We are going to see just a few, but if you surf the extension gallery of your browser, you could find the ideal extension for you