It is a new open source system to encourage student’s participation. The purpose of this tool is the use of techniques, elements and dynamics of the games in order to enhance motivation, as well as to reinforce behavior to solve a problem or obtain an objective.
Advantages of using Kahoot.
-The questions can be answered in a very short time without complexity.
-we can add pictures if we want to create our own questions.
-It allows teamwork.
-Encourages social learning.
-It allows evaluation among team members.
DISADVANTAGES.
-This tool requires fast concentration in order to answer the questions.
PowToon is an online platform for creating animations and all kinds of video presentations. The program, with an easy and intuitive English interface, has all the necessary tools to start creating explanatory animated presentations and videos with professional results. This platform offers a lot of templates according to the preference.
There are some advantages of using POWTOON.
-Quick presentations. The tool favors the creation of videos and presentations to make them quickly.
-Many effects.The variety of effects that this tool has, is enough to create our presentation with variants of transitions, text effects, images and other aspects.
-Character insertion. The characters, objects and shapes are already predefined, so it adapts easily to your presentation and has no complications.
-Add your own Voice or music. A good feature of PowToon, is the import of our own audio to the tool servers
-Share presentation Once we have finished our project, we will have direct access to share it on our Facebook account or directly on YouTube.
Also, It has some disadvantages
-It does not have collaborative work. This means, The tool is not ready to make a presentation in a team. We just have to create them ourselves.
Edit Online It does not have a downloadable program so that we can avoid a project from our PC, we must do it online and from its servers.
-Although many people find it difficult, the platform is in English. However with the translation tool offered by Google Chrome, this will not be an impediment
Firstly, before looking for information and select it, we need to check if the information is true or not.
we need to take into account some important factors before choosing the information, those factors are:
-Currency: we need to verify if we have reliable information, thats why we need to know or see how recent our information is.
-Reliability: that means that we need to check if the web site provides references or sources because if it does not have, that will be fake information.
-Authority: we need to see what are the credentials. For example, what is the proffesson of the author, if that person has a diploma in an especific area, etc. We need to know about the background of the expert who shared that information.
-Purpose: we need to be very carefull because people only share the information and sometimes we take that information without caring if is true or false, so that needs to be based.
–How can we know if the information is fake or not?
It is a free graphic generator for web pages or anything else where you need an impressed logo without much, it is easy to get the design you want.
ADVANTAGES OF COOL TEXT
-coolText is one of those online tools so practical and simple to use that they end up becoming essential and occupying one of the first places in our collection of favorites.
– This web application is completely free, nor does it waste our time in registering or completing forms, and its usefulness leaves no doubt.
-It helps us to generate various types of graphics in a very simple way, mainly beautiful and colorful texts, also buttons and original logos. We start with pre-designed graphics, the template collection is very wide, that we can fully customize until we get the graphic we need.
It is a searcher that offers us many tools in which we can find a variety of information .It is the most used search engine on the World Wide Web across all platforms
Advantages of using GOOGLE
-It is a fast web browser, it loads and displays pages very quickly.
-Google allows us to find general information.
-Here, the results are given according to their relevance.
Some of its disadvantages are:
-In some cases, we can find information that is not reliable.
-you cand find information that is not according to what you are looking for.
Also, we have another tool which is google scholar
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
It is a searcher that allows to look for academic documents such as books and tools related with education .
THERE ARE SSOME DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GOOGLE AND GOOGLE SCHOLAR
Thee difference between Google and Google Scholar is that Google Scholar focuses on the scholarly literature available on the Internet. This includes, articles, theses, books, abstracts, U.S. court opinions, and patents, found on the websites of academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and more.
Google scholar is generally used as a tool for the search of information regarding exclusive research of some professions, while normal Google, is used by the general public for a number of search types.
Also, in google scholar appear reliable documents such as scientific journals and scientific texts that are cited by several autors. In addition, their pages are constantly updated.
Also, another important tool is Google Drive
GOOGLE DRIVE
It is a place where you can access to all your files including Google Docs and local files that Google Drive uses to save all types of files, documents, presentations, music, photos and videos.
Some advantages of Google Drive
Share Photos and Videos with Your Contacts. …
Open and Edit Various Kinds of Document.
Efficient Built-in Search Engine
GOOGLE DOCS
This tool allows you to create, and edit documents. Also,you can edit it from your computer.
-Version Control.
-Collaboration is of the most important characteristics.
Refers to all technologies that provide access to information through telecommunications, which can be Internet, wireless networks, cell phones, and other tools of communication.
The ICT has its main components, which are hardware, software, data and people.
´-Hardware: refers to all the things we can touch in our machine.
-Software: refers to all the things the computer has internally.
-Data: the information that the system provides
-people: is who design and operate the software-
SOME BENEFITS OF ICT ARE:
-Improve our learning
-Makes our life easier
-innovate ways to interact among students
When we talk about ICT we involve CYBER SECURITY, which means that even though we think our information is privated, it can be public in the web
Cyber bullying: it is called ciber bullying to the bullying in which social networks are used against people privacity.
people who suffer bullying are exposed to present serious emotional damage.
-Sexting: Refers to the process of receiving and sending messages with sexual messages.
-Online gaming: This refers that also people who consider that are safe, can be victims of any crime and also they can steal the information that they find over there.
-Social media: It does not matter how far you are, a picture can be shared in any part of the world and a person can use it against your privacity-
Stealing Information: you can become a victim, and people can steal your informationan use your name to commit a crime.
THERE ARE SOME SECURITY PRINCIPLES THAT YOU MUST KEEP IN MIND:
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