IT'S PODCAST TIME Hi everybody. Today I want to show you a tool called PODCASTS. Yesss!! Podcast can be used in Education too!!! Before showing you how we can use this tool in order to teach something, I'll tell you the website that I have used: Spreaker.com:  The first thing I want to clarify about this application is the ease with which you can use it without having previously resorted to these types of pages. From the first moment you register, an assistant will appear to guide you through your first steps.Then, the only thing you need to do is to create a Podcast Channel and add Podcast episodes. The negative point of this website is that the free version is limited. Now i want to show you an example. MY NEW PODCAST Escucha"Vik's Educatips Podcast" en Spreaker. This is my Podcast Channel. Below I show you my FIRST EPISODE <div style=" style="border-width: 0px;" text-align:="" /> Esta obra está bajo una Licencia Creative C...

 The importance of slideshows      The slides have become a tool used in many fields, also in education. Both teachers and students use them to support their explanations, presentations and studies. That is why today I bring you a very useful tool for making slides.      As already mentioned, slides are used in a wide variety of situations. At the end of the day, we personalize the slide with the information we want, so it is useful and necessary.      The tool that I bring you today is www.genial.ly.      On this website we can create slides for free as soon as we register. However, some features won't be free.      Among the most characteristic aspects of this application we find: At the beginning, we have a lot of templates on which to create our slides. We differentiate between adding titles, subtitles, paragraphs, as well as different styles of letters, sizes and colors. We can add images and gifts ...

WELCOME TO THIS NEW POST Welcome to this new blog post. Writing this post makes me especially excited because I am going to show you a very fun and didactic tool to use with students. This post wants to dedicate special importance to comics in the classroom. The comics in the classroom is a pedagogical tool that teachers can use in a cross-curricular way, so when used well they can be very beneficial. For example, we can use the same comic for the ethics, natural sciences and arts and crafts or ITC class. Although comics can be done on paper, this time we are going to learn how to make them digitally. To make the comic that I show you I have used the website Storyboardthat.com. This website has a large number of options and a very visual and extensive menu, so the students will need our help to make the comic. However, it is a very complete tool that offers many options in its free version. The options give us a lot of variety to create a comic and always in a safe way for students,...

  WELCOME BACK TO A NEW POST AT VIK'S EDUCATIPS On this occasion I bring you an INFOGRAPHIC . Do you know what it is? Infographics can be defined as visual representations of data or information. In this case I have created this tool to use it in the Natural Science class. It is about the planets of the Solar System . I consider it a very effective way to give visual support to the students at the same time that they are more interested in learning the information. Also, I believe that it helps them to better organize and schematize content and main ideas.         In addition to bringing you this tool with an example, I want to tell you which website I have used to carry it out. Easel.ly :  I consider this application marvelous in order to make infographics. You can choose between an example template or create your own . As a result of your selection, you can continue adding all kinds of images and shapes, letter designs, backgrounds, charts and e...

Welcome back to a new blog post Today I bring you a very simple , visual and useful tool to show information to our students in a schematic way. It is called "Mindmap" and it has a series of characteristics and benefits that are very suitable for the classroom. Next, I mention the strongest points of this tool : 1. Show information in a clear and summarized way. 2. Visualize the most important aspects of a topic. 3 . Sequence ideas in an schematized way to clarify or solve problems. These are three advantages of using mindmaps, but there are so many!! It only depends on your imagination and creativity. Here you can see an example: In this case the topic is " Puberty ", from Natural Science subject. Looking at this mindmap students are able to find the main changes that women and men suffer during this vital and natural process called puberty. The web page that I have used has been the following one:  Bubbl.us      The web page used is one of many that we can...