martes, 26 de enero de 2016

Newsletter: The National Museum of American History

I have subscribed to The National Museum of American History newsletter service and I want to share with you the latest newsletter it has sent to me: http://americanhistory.si.edu/connect/email-newsletter 
In this case, we can find posts about the new exhibitions they are organizing, and they aven demand our attention, like with this post about the history of American philanthropy, asking us about our experiences, which is very useful for our students due to the example it gives them and because of the history of mutual help. 

Education & ICT tools

How can we take advantage of new technologies in our day to day in class?
Are there tools according to the levels and subjects?
The answer for these two questions is yes, of course, and now you can check it on this link, where I've shared a number of resources about history:

http://linoit.com/users/saragsarrio/canvases/TASK%201.-

First of all, I must highlight the tool www.myhistro.com  where you cna create your own timelines. In contrast to other tools, myhistro allows us to create unlimited timelines, with all the events you want. Each event can contain a description, links, vedeos, images and the location where the event took place. I created my own about the History of Spain from prehistory to the last general elections in December 2015.

Secondly, I want to draw your attention to lesson plans. If we talk about plans for printing, I must say that the most interesting one that I have find is one about the World War II. This lesson plan includes links with photos, the most important vocabulary and all the essential sections that allow us to organize in a properly and tidy way a unit or a lesson.
Another lesson plan that I find extremely interesting is the one about Humanism, which we can use with the whiteboard. Thanks to this lesson, students will learn the mindset changes that took place in that historical moment, as well as changes in art and the inventions and discoveries that had been produced during this period.

Finally, let's talk about the online publications or e-books. I have found an on-line magazine  called History Net, where I can find interesting articles about recent and ancient history. It provides videos, galleries with very interesting photos, what happened this day in history and some subscriptions.

domingo, 17 de enero de 2016

CMS examples


All the web pages we have to see can seem ostensible simple because of their appearance and lack of dynamic functions at a first glance. 

Nevertheless, I think that the more interesting format could be the WordPress, inasmuch as I believe that the content can be organized in a better way through multiple tabs, making it more visual and easy to find. It also offers the option to find all the latest news and interesting links at a glance on the home page. 
In conclusion, I believe the web pages are a good option to store the entire contents of a educational center because it provides resources and liks for parents, teachers and students, but I think that the most dynamic and interesting classroom ITC resource is the traditional blog created by the blogger platform like this one. 


JOOMLA!

Joomla! is a CMS that allows to create our own applications and web pages for free and in a very simple way. For teachers and students, it can be a very useful tool, which we can provide ICT content to our student in a more attractive and visual way.
Here there is a video tutorial where you can learn more about this tool.



As I said before, I believe that visual content is extremely important and that's the main reason I have chosen the photos and images extension, inasmuch as I believe that it is very instructive adn valuable enriching the knowledge we are trying to explain to our students.