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Fifteen Tools for Creating Mind Maps and Flowcharts | Free Technology for Teachers

Fifteen Tools for Creating Mind Maps and Flowcharts | Free Technology for Teachers | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Earlier this year I published some reviews and videos about a few new mind mapping tools. As the new school year begins I think it's time that I add those new tools my list of mind mapping creation tools for students and teachers. Here's my updated list of mind mapping and flowchart creation tools.
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Five Free Tools That Help Students Format Bibliographies | Free Technology for Teachers

Five Free Tools That Help Students Format Bibliographies | Free Technology for Teachers | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

When I was in high school we had to learn how to create bibliographies by working from a template that my history teacher, Mr. Diggs, provided to us. When I went to college, I referred to that template and an early version of The Student Writer to make bibliographies. Today, students have a wealth of online tools that can help them properly structure citations and bibliographies. I've featured a handful of them over the last couple of years. Here they are. 

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Web Tools to Help Teachers Transition from in Class to Online Teaching

Web Tools to Help Teachers Transition from in Class to Online Teaching | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
As the current pandemic rages across the globe causing colossal social and economic damage and setting up new realities, the way education was delivered pre-pandemic will forever be changed. Distance learning and online education are taking over the stage with more schools and universities moving to online curricula and increasingly adopting remote modes of teaching and learning. In today's post we are sharing with you some useful digital resources to facilitate your transition to virtual-based modes of education and work.
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Actively Learn

Actively Learn | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Engage your students in reading with Actively Learn, the digital reading platform where scaffolding, peer learning, and assessment come together inside a text, exactly when students need help and motivation.

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A student toolkit to help you tackle remote learning written by students for students | Guest post

A student toolkit to help you tackle remote learning written by students for students | Guest post | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
This is a guest post written for students by students Matty Trueman, Kai Ackroyd, Curtis Alexis-Jones and Gagan Warinch to highlight the free collaboration tools available and how they can support remote learning. We are final year students at Sheffield Hallam University.

Our blog post will look at how you as a student can: plan tasks, share work online, schedule and run online meetings whilst staying digitally connected through messaging services. In addition, tools to help with managing time and staying motivated during times of difficulty will also be shared.
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Cozy Reader: a secure place for your articles

Cozy Reader: a secure place for your articles | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Cozy uses BlockStack to (forever!) save all the articles you want to read.
Which means that yes, even if the website goes down or the original articles are deleted, you will have access to the articles!


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This looks like a useful tool for students to store reading and research articles.

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Touch Typing for Kids: An Essential 21st Century Skill

Touch Typing for Kids: An Essential 21st Century Skill | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Students are now engaging with the world through their keyboards more than ever before, recording notes, completing homework assignments, and even taking standardised tests. For today’s kids, learning to type from an early age should be alongside learning to write, read, and perform arithmetic. Here are some of the secrets to teaching touch typing to your student or child as part of their early childhood education.

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Notejoy – Collaborative notes for you and your team

Notejoy – Collaborative notes for you and your team | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Drowning in email & Slack? Notejoy's fast and focused workspace is the perfect solution.

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6 Good Educational Tools to Boost Students Learning

6 Good Educational Tools to Boost Students Learning | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Today we spent sometime going through the featured resources in ReadWriteThing and picked out for you the tools below. These are interactive web tools students can use for a variety of educational purposes including: writing persuasive essays, structuring and organizing ideas for an argumentative debate, using KWL charts to prepare for reading, using Cube Creator to summarize and synthesize what they have learned, creating class newspapers or brochures, and many more. Check them out and share with us your feedback.
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Top 200 Tools for Learning 2019 Infographic – Top Tools for Learning 2019

Top 200 Tools for Learning 2019 Infographic – Top Tools for Learning 2019 | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Here is a PDF of the Top 200 Tools for Learning 2019. You can re-use this image provided full attribution is retained on the image.

 

Please note further infographics appear on the following pages

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Rememberly

Rememberly | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Over 60% of stuff we learn is forgotten within 9 hours and 90% within a month.
Use the two most powerful learning techniques - self-quizzing and distributed practicing - so you can learn better and achieve more.
Rephrase key points from what you learn, and test over time. That's it!

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Reflection toolkit | Information Literacy Weblog

Reflection toolkit | Information Literacy Weblog | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
A really useful resource from the University of Edinburgh: a Reflection toolkit with material both for those doing the reflection and for those facilitating or assessing reflection. Additionally there is a literature review on reflection, and a substantial bibliography.
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Google Keep Guide for Teachers

Google Keep Guide for Teachers | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Google Keep is one of the best free note taking tools out there. It provides a wide variety of features that allow you to easily create and share notes and lists. And for mobile users, they have the added feature to create audio notes. Just a few days ago, Google announced the integration of Keep into Google Docs. 

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Digital Tools to Help You Focus on Work and Study

Digital Tools to Help You Focus on Work and Study | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
In a digitally focused world where we are constantly bombarded with all kinds of distractions, focus becomes a rare currency.  In fact, the loss of sustained focus is not due merely to digital distractions but also to the inner nature of the web technologies we are dealing with on a daily basis. For instance, social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, to mention a few, are designed to host and share content that is consumed in very short chunks of time.
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5 Good Tools for Visual Note Taking

5 Good Tools for Visual Note Taking | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Have you considered the power of visual note taking in your online instruction? Well, if you have not you should. Visual note taking will help enrich your teachable content and facilitate your remote teaching. The apps below are some of the best visual note takers out there. Most of them support collaborative team work allowing you to work  with your students or colleagues on the same visual note, diagram or mind map and in real-time.
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A New Google Feature to Convert Your Pictures into Beautiful Pieces of Art

A New Google Feature to Convert Your Pictures into Beautiful Pieces of Art | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

A few weeks ago Google introduced a new feature called Art Transfer that allows you to "transform your photo in the style of an iconic artist". This new functionality is available in the Google Arts and Culture app. Using Art Transfer you will be able to create unique artistic works through a combination of your own photos with styles from well-known artists including van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Leonardo da Vinci, Edvard Munch, to mention a few. 

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Quick Tip - Apply Custom Colors to Google Slides | Free Technology for Teachers

Quick Tip - Apply Custom Colors to Google Slides | Free Technology for Teachers | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Regular users of Google Slides are probably familiar with the process of adding images to the backgrounds of their slides and changing the background color. There is one little background color option that is easily overlooked. That option is applying a custom color that isn't listed in the default color menu in Google Slides.

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The Best Free Word Processors Of 2020: All the best alternatives to Microsoft Word

The Best Free Word Processors Of 2020: All the best alternatives to Microsoft Word | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Why pay full price for Microsoft Word when there’s an absolute bevy of great free word processors out there that can do the job just as well? If you’re a student or an educator working on a machine where a Microsoft Word subscription hasn’t been provided for you, you’ve likely been stuck pondering whether you’ll be forced to shell out for the full Word program in time.

Fear not! As said before, there are a select handful of free word processors out there that match Microsoft Word in many respects and surpass it in others. We’ve sifted through every word processor we could think of and narrowed them down for our definitive list of the 4 Best Free Word Processors For 2020.

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29 tools to help with your content writing

29 tools to help with your content writing | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
29 tools to help with your content writing Use a selection of these tools to boost the quality of the content you write Writing relevant and user-friendly content is harder than it seems. You need.

 

Writing relevant and user-friendly content is harder than it seems. You need to ensure that your text reads clearly and with no mistakes in order to maximize the impact of your message. It’s a real balancing act, which is why a range of content writing tools have been developed to ease your writing journey. Here are 29 of the best online content writing tools to help with all manner of different writing challenges, such as grammar, spelling, writing for SEO and copy editing.

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Authentic Assessment Tools for Teachers and Students

Authentic Assessment Tools for Teachers and Students | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Improve assessment with student-centered tools that promote real-world tasks. Explore this Authentic Assessment Tools for Teachers and Students Top Picks list of 17 tools curated by Common Sense Education editors to find relevant and engaging edtech solutions for your classroom.
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Twelve Good Tools for Creating Mind Maps & Flowcharts - Updated | Free Technology for Teachers

Twelve Good Tools for Creating Mind Maps & Flowcharts - Updated | Free Technology for Teachers | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Earlier this week I published a video about a neat new service called Transo that lets you turn your notes into a mind map with just one click. Creating that video and writing the corresponding blog post got me to revisit a list of mind mapping tools that I published a couple of months ago. Here's my updated list of mind mapping and flowchart creation tools.
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Some Very Good Apps for annotating PDFs

Some Very Good Apps for annotating PDFs | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

PDFs are one of the major document formats we deal with in our daily work as teachers and educators. Besides their readability and user friendliness, PDFs, compared to other document formats, has several strengths: they are print friendly and are accepted by major printers, PDFs can be locked so that others can only read and not alter its content, they are ideal for archiving and storage as they can be easily compressed, they can be combined and merged together, and they are also ideal for document exchange between multiple users. In today’s post, we are sharing with you some of our favourite PDF apps to use on your iPad to view, read and annotate PDFs. .

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9 Good Search Chrome Extensions for Students

9 Good Search Chrome Extensions for Students | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Chrome browser has a number of interesting educational extensions to enhance your productivity and facilitate your workflow. Over the last few years we have reviewed hundreds of these extensions which you can access from this page. Today, we are sharing with you 9 effective tools students can use to help them with their online research.  

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Reveal Your Students’ Plagiarism in Google Docs - EdTechReview™ (ETR)

Reveal Your Students’ Plagiarism in Google Docs - EdTechReview™ (ETR) | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Checking the papers of your students can take a lot of time.

Depending on the subject and the discipline in question, you may spend hours evaluating the work your class has done. This has always been a typical problem for teachers everywhere, and it might have gotten worse with the advancement of plagiarism. Now you not only have to check papers for their correspondence with your requirements. You need to make sure that the writing is original—otherwise, all your further actions will become worthless.

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10 Student-Tested Chrome Extensions

10 Student-Tested Chrome Extensions | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Many teachers and students use Google Chrome, and it’s easy to customize with these extensions that really benefit students.

 

Starting a new school year means new students, new supplies, a newly cleaned and organized classroom—and new technology tools for students. After I spend some time getting to know my students each year, I typically take a day to add several extensions to their Google Chrome browser accounts—my students spend most of their computer time using that browser.

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