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iDesktop.tv provides a really useful and user friendly service for anyone who wants to use video clips from sources like YouTube, but doesn't want their students looking around at anything unsuitable, or for anyone who has ever found a really useful clip, only to go back later and find it has moved or been removed.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a great tool for searching multiple video sharing sites and for downloading videos in various file formats. Delete the scoop?
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WeSpeke is a free and open global language platform and marketplace cultural exchange where users teach, learn and practice languages.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a well designed tool to partner people up for language exchange and peer leaning through video conferencing. Lots of language support and safety features. 
Julia Clarke's comment,
June 17, 12:51 PM
Thanks Nik this looks really useful for students planning to do study abroad
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Improve your brain health and performance with brain games designed by neuroscientists to exercise memory and attention. Customize your personalized brain training program today.
Nik Peachey's insight:
I'm not really sure that this works, but it is really well designed and you can get started for free and try it out. 
Caroline Christalleyes's curator insight,
June 12, 5:28 AM
clear beautiful design for an easy navigation..train on! #productivity #brainluminosity 
Kaylin Burleson's curator insight,
June 16, 4:41 PM
Can't wait to use some of this info. This brain research fascinates me.
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A habit building program which treats your life like a Role Playing Game. Level up as you succeed, lose HP as you fail, earn money to buy weapons and armor.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a really great tool to get students motivated and doing tasks more autonomously. They can configure tasks and try to change habits and add motivational rewards and gamification elements to keep themselves motivated. I'll be using this myself from now on. Delete the scoop?
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Words can take your photos further. Typic is a simple and beautiful tool to write captions on your photos and turn them into great design pieces. Have fun creating cool images to share with your friends.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Nice mobile app for adding text over images. Great way to create flashcards on the move. Delete the scoop?
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The startpage that connects and organize all your favorite links, bookmarks, social networks, favorite online services, into one single beautiful interface.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is an interesting web based start page that allows you to access all of your online profiles and accounts from a single page. 
Pablo Barrios's curator insight,
June 13, 1:12 PM
Una opción a herramientas como Symbaloo para la creación de PLEs. Es bastante visual y tiene un para de caracteríticas que la hacen versátil. Interesante hacer una evaluación personal de la misma, para determinar su potencia, ventajas y oportunidades Delete the scoop?
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Whether your students are in Korea or across town, for the first time it is possible to coach students with their writing as though you were face to face. And unlike Skype, your students get a permanent copy of your feedback to reference in the future.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a tool which syncs with your Google Drive account and allows you to record audio feedback on students' writing work. It's very much like the work done by Russel Stannard who uses screen capture to give feedback. 
Ajaan Rob Hatfield's curator insight,
June 4, 9:17 PM
I looked at this program. If you add this to Google hangouts it becomes a very powerful teaching tool. 
Ludmila Smirnova's curator insight,
June 8, 7:16 AM
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Browse pictures, and Say Something. SayRoom is an intuitive audio cloud that captures your raw emotional reactions while viewing media from various sources.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a handy tool to give students some quick listening and speaking practice. Be careful about using it with younger learners though as some reactions may be inappropriate. Delete the scoop?
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The site promotes the innovative and creative use of film in language learning. All of the lesson plans revolve around the use of video and film to teach English. The site promotes cineliteracy, the ability to analyse moving images, and considers cineliteracy as a 21st century skill which our students need to learn.
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Great collection of ready made lessons here. Delete the scoop?
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A free resource that uses interactive video and games-based learning to teach students vocabulary. Educators can set school tournaments, and students can play fun learning games challenging classmates and other schools.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Wordia has certainly changed a lot over the last few years and now has much more of a focus on game based learning. One of the really nice things about the site is that teachers and students can now author their own games based around the vocabulary they want to revise.
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Portfoliogen was developed by teachers for teachers to allow you to use todays technology to create a web based portfolio and display your skills beyond the conventional paper-based portfolio. This online service provides teachers with a way to create their own professional looking webpage in less than 5 minutes.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is more of a tool for teachers than for learners, but it is a good idea to have a web based portfolio and good to use to set an example for your students. I actually use Scoop.it for my portfolio http://www.scoop.it/t/nik-peachey but might give this a try.
Ajaan Rob Hatfield's curator insight,
June 2, 10:51 PM
Thank you for sharing. English teachers could use this more than just a portfolio page...
Pablo Barrios's curator insight,
June 6, 3:19 PM
Portafolios para docentes. Una herramienta para evaluar y analizar. Delete the scoop?
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Once installed in your browser, the "eduClip It" button lets you grab an content from any website and add it to one of your eduClipboards. When you clip from a website, we automatically grab the source link so we can credit the original creator.
Nik Peachey's insight:
EduClipper is like Pinterest for educators. It's a great tool for curation or for collect sources for webquests or projects. Also a good tool to get your students to use for projects. Delete the scoop?
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Makes you wonder how on earth earth such misguided studies can even be commissioned. Also makes you curious about who is really behind the funding of research that misleads readers into believing that poor kids don’t need the same tools their wealthier peers use for success.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Some kind of obvious points, that obviously still need to be made. 
Tom Donahoe's comment,
May 26, 1:04 PM
Very well crafted piece...clearly the study cited equated correlation with causality. Lisa makes some very good points.
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Nik Peachey's insight:
Really simple and useful tool for annotating videos and creating dialogue around them. 
Susan Wegmann's comment,
Today, 11:14 AM
This is a fantastic tool! I've already annotated two YouTube videos.
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Video ANT - create your own ANT bed. Fantastic tool! Delete the scoop?
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We builds tools for kids to code. We're working on a visual programming language for the iPad that uses modular drag-and-drop methods to let kids easily create their own computer programs and apps.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great free iPad app to get kids interested in creating their own games and apps in a simple and entertaining way. 
Limitless Learning Limited's curator insight,
June 16, 9:00 AM
A visual drag and drop programming app that allows children to create their own games and animations. 
Stacey Py Flynn's curator insight,
June 16, 11:27 AM
Kids use a drop and drag method using "blocks" (visuals) to create their own games and programs.
Stacey Py Flynn's comment,
June 16, 11:28 AM
Why can't all coding be like this?? Visual learners unite! :)
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Nik Peachey's insight:
This is great tool for synchronous or asynchronous collaborative text creation and peer editing. Despite the warning it seems to be remarkably reliable. 
plerudulier's comment,
June 10, 6:52 AM
It's a great tool; strangely enough it seems to really take off shortly after it has been bought out by Google.
Krysta Hammond's curator insight,
June 10, 12:32 PM
Great tool for our collaborative writing pieces. Also our larger writing pieces which require teacher feedback and continual editting. This will save some time on marking! Delete the scoop?
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Get Split Pic 2.0 - Clone Yourself, + Photo Filters and FX ! on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Nice app to create some strange and fun effects. Put yourself in the same image multiple times. Delete the scoop?
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Create and play your own game show and quiz show templates free without Powerpoint!
Nik Peachey's insight:
Create online quizzes from templates and use them in class. Great to get students creating peer reviews of materials. 
Dee Dee Davenport's curator insight,
June 8, 10:46 AM
What a great way to increase student interest. Delete the scoop?
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A compilation of people asking real questions and getting real replies from people all over the world. You simply ask a short ten-second video question, and everyone with the app sees it. Instantly, people begin to reply by sending in their answers in form of ten-second video replies.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Really nice idea to have a video Q&A app for crowdsourcing information from around the world, just a shame you have to register through facebook. Delete the scoop?
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The deep reader, protected from distractions and attuned to the nuances of language, enters a state that psychologist Victor Nell, in a study of the psychology of pleasure reading, likens to a hypnotic trance. Nell found that when readers are enjoying the experience the most, the pace of their reading actually slows. The combination of fast, fluent decoding of words and slow, unhurried progress on the page gives deep readers time to enrich their reading with reflection, analysis, and their own memories and opinions. It gives them time to establish an intimate relationship with the author, the two of them engaged in an extended and ardent conversation like people falling in love.
Nik Peachey's insight:
An interesting read, but I'm not o sure that deeper reading is under threat. I know my own digital native daughter is more than capable of prolonged concentration on a text if she finds it sufficiently engaging. 
Mark W.F. Condon's comment,
June 4, 1:11 PM
Love the topic! I have begun, slowly, working on a blog regarding Avid Reading, which IS under threat as all focus in schools is on developing kids who read while ignoring that they must choose to do so for the rest of their lives. We have fewer and fewer children who choose to read, which means their broad reachiing education will stop with the diploma or degree. So thanks for sharing. I'd love the citation for the study that is mentioned here.
Mark W.F. Condon's comment,
June 4, 1:13 PM
OH, and my Avid Reading blog is at http://markwfcondon.tumblr.com!
Susan Wegmann's curator insight,
June 6, 9:59 AM
Interesting treatise on purposes and kinds of reading events. Delete the scoop?
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The online eReader for language learners. Import other websites or novel length texts and read them in a distraction free environment with one-click translation. After reading, review the new vocabularly with spaced repetition flashcards.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a combined translation and flashcard creation tool to support the development of vocabulary. Watch the video to see how it works. 
timsbox's curator insight,
June 4, 4:52 AM
Le principe est génial ! Vous lisez un texte en anglais (n'importe quel texte trouvé sur le web qui vous intéresse), vous cliquez sur les mots difficiles pour avoir une traduction immédiate, puis vous pouvez réviser les mots sélectionnés ! Ce n'est pas très ludique mais très efficace. En plus, c'est gratuit...
Adapté pour adultes et collégiens ... 
Steve Ridout's comment,
June 4, 5:06 AM
Hey, Steve here, creator of Readlang. Very happy to see it shared here! It is already somewhat mobile friendly, in that the design adapts to smaller screens, and I use it on my iPad all the time. I hope eventually to develop iOS and Android applications too.
Patricia Daniels's curator insight,
June 4, 9:35 AM
Students, I've just tested this myself and it's a useful tool. Apparently it's also becoming more mobile compatible, which will be a postive development. There's an introduction video so watch it first and see if it's a tool that you'll put to use. I've added the extension to Chrome.
You can upload webpages for reading and if you're unsure of a word, click on it for the translation. This will appear in your word bank as a flashcard with some text ( this provides you with the context which is an intelligent feature). You can then run through your list of flashcards and learn the words. Remember to put them in context when you are doing your practice as this will help you retain them.
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Videosci.com shares streaming science videos across the web. Play science! Under various categories videosci is a complete repository of scattered science videos
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great collection of science related videos. 
Caitlyn Frame's curator insight,
June 7, 11:42 PM
There are many video resources to be found on this page that engage and inform students across a variety of topics. These would act as a great starting point to enable students to critique and begin investigating a particular topic and the needs it is meeting. Delete the scoop?
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Debate and discuss arguments on Quibl.com
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a useful website for setting up online debates and votes. There are also some interesting ones already there. 
Jocelyn Gagnon's comment,
May 29, 10:36 PM
Take a look to the map, very useful to find debates near you.
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Create amazing presentations for free in just a few minutes and turn your ideas into stunning live stories!
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like an impressive online tool for creating presentations. Delete the scoop?
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Use your Webcam to Record Videos Online for Free in our Video Booth. No download required, apply over 55 special effects and upload your video to YouTube.
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This is great for shy teachers or students who feel self conscious about recording themselves on a webcam. You can record directly into the browser and then save the file to your desktop or upload to YouTube or your blog or website. Delete the scoop?
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A quick clip can do wonders, but there is often the worry that something inappropriate will pop up as well. This certainly fills a need. Excellent.
This looks good!
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