15 RECOMMENDED EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES - ECONOMÍA - 2024

Here is a list of recommended educational websites for primary and secondary school children, university students and teachers, which will help you teach lessons in all kinds of subjects.

Are you looking for resources on the web to teach or for your children? You may feel frustrated or overwhelmed by the number of websites out there. Of course you have ours, lifeder.com, where you can find thousands of educational articles. But you have other types of web that will also help you as a student or teacher. You may also be interested in this list of the best educational blogs.

Recommended educational resources and websites

EDILIM 3.2.3

Edilim 3.2.3 is a program used to create activities such as word searches, puzzles, ordering phrases, etc. It is simple and very intuitive, so it does not require any instruction.

STORYBIRDS

Storybirds is used as a tool, free of charge. Framed within the new web 2.0, it gives the possibility of developing stories online and being able to share them on the web. It has a large repository rich in attractive images that can be located by various categories, it also gives the possibility that the stories can be collaborative.

Taking into account the content to be taught, it is ideal for use with children between three and fourteen years old. In addition, we must point out that it is easy to use, in addition to being characterized as interactive and creative.

WIKI

The Wiki web is a page where users can edit and enter content in text format, images and videos. The Wikispace platform is characterized as flexible, from where you can send tasks, create projects and debates, among others.

There are numerous examples on the internet where you can see the use of wiki as a work tool outside the classroom. Likewise, they are also valid as information search, since the work of the projects that the groups carry out is reflected as a source of information for searches of other people or, where appropriate, other colleagues.

WEBQUEST

Creating a Webquest gives the possibility of designing a support where students can carry out activities in a guided and oriented way. Its use is recommended from the stage of primary education to the university itself.

Groups are usually established where work roles are assigned and a final result is produced, such as a report or document.

EXAM TIME

Examtime is an online application where you can perform concept maps and tests to check knowledge. It is free and can be used from any electronic medium, computer or tablet.

Concept maps or, also called, mind maps, give the possibility of using shapes and colors, as well as images that can be included. The creations can be modified and edited as many times as necessary, being able to share so that other people can obtain the information that has been posted.

BLOGSPOT

Blogs, like wiki, also give the possibility of uploading videos, texts and photos, editing them.

Blogspot is a free website where both the teacher and the students themselves can select a topic and post all the information they deem appropriate in each of their entries. These can appear with a specific date and time, by which they can be classified.

PODCAST

There are other means of continuing training outside of the classroom. For this reason, the possibility of using podcast is opportune to make recordings to which it is necessary for students to have access.

Podcast gives the possibility of, through ivoox, create audio reproductions to hang them on any medium.

YOUTUBE

Youtube is a repository known worldwide. In this one, videos of all kinds are posted, whether they are playful such as music videos, movies or specific videos on a specific topic.

The training also uses this tool as a learning method, since from the videos posted on YouTube you can access specific content related to the content that is being discussed in class; You can upload videos that students need to view at home; and they themselves can also contribute by uploading material.

In the same way, they can also share the videos with other classmates and take them to class by noting the link to which the video is linked.

Youtube, like podscat, are valid for tutorials where students can repeat actions that teachers are showing. For this reason, they are excellent tools to use in online training, since it is necessary to visualize content to repeat the behavior or simply to obtain stimuli that distract from continuous reading.

SLIDSHARE

Slidshare allows you to upload slideshows and share them with everyone. In addition, it also contains a repository where you can get information from other slidshare that other members have shared.

It is a widely used tool, since there is currently a lot of information that has been hanging since it began. Slidshare can be accessed from this link.

SECOND LIFE

Education also adds to virtual environments. Second Life is a virtual world where you can create human-like avatars that bring players to life in the virtual world.

As the creation of their own environments is possible, teachers can use it as a means of communication and exchange of knowledge among the students themselves, while creating a positive climate with playful and pleasant situations.

DROPBOX

Dropbox gives the ability to share documents between various electronic media, such as computers or tablets. By creating a shared folder, the teacher will be able to upload information to her students maintaining reciprocity, since each component of the folder will also have the same function. In addition, it is also valid as external storage.

On the website or, once you have logged in, you can access and download the folder with which you can work from your computer. The use of this folder is similar to any other that we have on the computer, such as "my documents".

GOOGLE DRIVE

The possibility that Google Drive offers is that, like Dropbox, it allows you to share documents. However, when accessing the Google Drive website, it is possible to work on the same document with other colleagues, since you work online.

Similarly, it is also possible to download a folder and use it as a storage medium.

WIKIPEDIA

Wikipedia could not be missing, where you can find articles on almost any subject and language.

Educational tools

ICT BOARDS

The ICT blackboards are, for school classrooms, the most innovative material of the 21st century. Leaving the chalk aside, the new slates contemplate the possibility of using the internet for their use. In this way it is possible to show videos, listen to songs and view images, while we can use it by touch.

This tool is revolutionizing the teaching of the 21st century, as it is a great change to which education is being exposed, since training is necessary for teachers to use the blackboard correctly, apart from the economic cost of this tool.

Leaving aside the conception of what is better or worse, whether the old teaching or the new one, teaching through the internet, leaving aside the classic textbooks and using the URLs of the web pages is a path that we just finished to start undertaking.

EXE-LEARNING

This last tool is used for online training. Exe-learning is used to create and edit content that we will incorporate into an online course. It is a program that is downloaded to any electronic medium, computer or tablet, and the amount of information and the structure that we wish to establish for our course is entered.

Allows you to create activities, such as true or false, completing sentences or creating objective tests (multiple choice tests). Likewise, it is also possible to include images, as well as photos and text. Once the exe-learning file has been extracted, the course must be placed on an appropriate platform for it, one of these can be “Course Sites”.

Bibliography

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