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Physics and Chemistry Padlet: Building our knowledge atom-by-atom

In the link below you can access to a Padlet that I have created. In this Padlet you will find some mobile and tablet apps very useful to science teachers or teachers in general. There are also in the Padlet some lesson plans about physics and chemistry and some websites and resources about science. Physics ans Chemistry Padlet:

Science Blogs: Ciencia de Sofa

One of the blogs on science that I like the most is Ciencia de Sofa . This blog publishes and organizes its entries on biology, geology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, astronomy, etc. It has a simple but attractive design and has been a finalist and winner of the Bitacoras awards.   The articles published by Ciencia de Sofa are quality, quite extensive and respond to curiosities or issues of great relevance in science. In addition, the author of the blog uses language that is easy to understand and with a slight touch of humour. One of the things that I like most about this blog is that it allows users to send questions with doubts or possible information topics and later the author gives them an answer in an entry.

Educational Websites

Once visited the websites of several educational centres, created with different CMS clients or directly with LMS. In my opinion, the best option to build the website of an institute, department or any related to any educational institution is Joomla! or the one that makes available the ConsellerĂ­a de la Generalitat Valenciana "Mestre a casa". The web pages that present the best design and organization, in my opinion, are those of the Leonardo da Vinci (designed with Joomla!) and La Canyada institute (offered by Conselleria). Joomla has the advantage of being able to use many templates, designs and extensions (like the previously commented on the blog), which gives you a greater grade of freedom and possibilities. The Conselleria, however, offers websites with an almost unique design, but which provides enough tools to build an educational website. In addition, I suppose its creation is easier as you will count on with the support of the administration. ...

vQuiz: A good Joomla! CMS extension.

Joomla! is a free open-source CMS platform that allows users to build dynamic websites, blog, intranets etc. Joomla! can be used for companies or small business websites, e-commerce, online reservations and educational sites. It can be a little tricky to install and get started with but you can create your own website on www.joomla.com or search for a hosting server that has already installed Joomla. This CMS has a lot of extensions to create and personalise the website to your needs. One of the thousands there are is vQuiz . vQuiz is a quiz tool that helps you to create various quizzes to evaluate respondent's level of knowledge. vQuiz uses Charts, graphs etc. It makes also graphic reports of your Quizzes. This extension could be very useful to take exams on a educational website which allows to grade and follow the student's progress. It has a demo page in case you want to see it previously to the purchuase.