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AppShed Academy delivers key organisational tools that enable teachers to turn app development into a compelling teaching methodology. Anchor students’ creativity into the heart of your lessons and manage and channel their aspirations with confidence.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a good platform for building educational apps and getting students started building apps. There is a free account for both teachers and students and if you pay for a yearly account there are some classroom management tools and premium services. 
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QuizBean is the easiest way to create and share online quizzes with your friends. It's totally free, so what are you waiting for? Make your first quiz!
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a nice way to create quizzes and manage students' results. there is a free account which allows you create up to 6 quizzes, but if you want more you can pay $5 a month for up to 26 quizzes and 101 registered students or $10 a month for unlimited use.
JoAnn Salvisberg-Smith's curator insight,
November 5, 2013 2:28 AM
Another tool to quickly evaluate student progress.
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Share documents, texts, video chat, and collaborate anytime, anywhere.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like an interesting platform for supporting interactive learning. There is a free trial subscription, but for a useable adoption plan it will cost about $20 a month.
Nik Peachey's curator insight,
September 25, 2013 2:57 AM
This looks like an interesting platform for supporting interactive learning. There is a free trial subscription, but for a useable adoption plan it will cost about $20 a month.
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Teachers, trainers, and content publishers use Zaption’s intuitive web app to quickly add images, text, quizzes, and discussions to existing videos from YouTube, Vimeo and private video libraries. The result is an interactive learning tour that transforms video from a “lean back” experience to an engaging “lean forward” activity.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a pretty impressive tool for creating flipped learning or any kind of interactive video which demands a response from viewers. It's made for education and has some LMS features so you can track students' responses. There is a free trial, but the lowest cost of a subscription is $15 a year.
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All you need is a Microsoft Kinect for Windows 8, projector, and Ubi software. Our software provides a cost effective solution that can be used with off-the-shelf hardware instead of paying thousands for non-portable alternatives like an interactive whiteboard. Ubi provides a way for humans to interact with any surface in a way that is most natural and intuitive to us.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This does look very impressive. The cheapest versio of the software comes in at $149 but you do also need a computer running Windows 8 and a Windows Kinect, but that's still a lot cheaper than the usual IWB and much more portable.
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ExitTicket is a student response system designed to drive instruction and reteaching intervention via real time technologies and instructional strategies.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is an interesting looking student response system. It allows teachers to set up in-class tests to measure how well sudents have understood their materials. It gives very detailed results that can be openly displayed or privately seen by teachers. There is a free version and a premium version which is still free for early adopters, but I guess they will start charging for it soon, so wise to sig up now before they start charging.
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Welcome to PlayHaus - an exploratory learning environment for little kids (and you).
Nik Peachey's insight:
Playhaus is a really nice tactile learning app for young learners. It is $1.99 or $1.49 so not a great risk, but a nice way to keep kids engaged with learning and having fun.
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More than another note-taking app, PhatPad turns your iPad into an advanced brainstorming tool. Draw, write, and type your ideas then instantly share them via email, WiFi sync, Dropbox, or presentation mode.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This isn't free, but at $4.99 - £2.99 it looks like a nicely priced and very helpful tool for teachers, especially if it can beam onto a data-projector screen. Great to use as IWB and then share notes after class.
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ExamJet Quiz Maker - Standard Edition is for one user, it can be installed on one computer (at home or at work). It also may be installed on one additional computer which belongs to the license holder, however under one restriction, it is allowed to use only one copy at any given time.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like quite a useful tool. There is a free trial version and then a single user license is $59
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SimpleDiagrams2 is a small desktop application that helps you express your ideas quickly and simply. There's just enough functionality to describe a thought or capture a process. SimpleDiagrams2 keeps the visual expression of ideas clear through the simple design of library items and backgrounds. Because the last thing you want to do is overload your audience with over-cooked visuals.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a nice desk top tool for creating diagrams, but only has a 7 day trial period. After that you can buy it for just under £20. It runs on adobe Air so is quick and easy to instal.
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We want your students to be able to use your apps anywhere and at any time, eg also on the plane, on trains or busses. Therefore, users of your native apps can download the contents directly on their smartphones or tablets and use your apps even without data connection.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great tool for creating educational apps for multiple platforms. It's free to use, but if you want to sell your apps through their app store, they take a 35% cut of your purchase price.
Let's Learn IT's curator insight,
May 23, 2013 4:20 AM
Wow -this is what I have been waiting for for a very long time!
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With 123ContactForm everybody can build smart and beautiful forms in just a few clicks – it’s so simple that just drag & drop dexterity is needed. K12 teachers worldwide use 123ContactForm to stay organized and power a wide range of classroom activities for kids.
Nik Peachey's insight:
A really useful collection of forms and functionality for educators.
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Get Eyejot Video Mail on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great app if you want a professional level video messaging tool for your phone. I particularly like the video business card feature. Seems reasonably priced at $4.99 or £2.99 in the UK.
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Children can interact in several different ways. After learning the song, they then recycle and practise what they have learnt with fun language games. Correct answers win a prize which the young learner then uses in the app's original drawing and artwork feature.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a nicely designed app with fun language learning activities to get young kids learning English through song. The app costs £2.49 0r $3.99. So for the price of a cup of coffee you can get your kids enjoying music and learning English.
Charles Goodger's curator insight,
November 11, 2013 2:55 AM
If you know anyone who might our first FunSongs app fun and useful let them know! Please let them know!
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Our tools guide the process of clearly, concisely and concretely explaining an instructional idea. It facilitates the interaction between course participants and course instructors from customizing assignments, creating lessoncasts, giving feedback and evaluating for classroom preparedness.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This isn't a free service, but it does look like an interesting approach to teacher development.
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Shindig is building a patent-pending software architecture for online engagement based around video chat. Everyone hates video chat. We figured out why and fixed it!
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like an innovative new video conferencing platform. No sign yet of how much it will cost, but it has great potential
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Share your powerpoint presentations, eLearning content, business presentations and tutorials as engaging talking videos, by using high-quality and multilingual text-to-speech technology, with no need for expensive and time-consuming voice recordings. How? Just import your presentation and type a comment for each slide. You immediately get a high-quality talking video, ready to be shared.
Nik Peachey's insight:
There is a free subscription which allows upto 6 presentations, but to create more and longer presentations you need to sign up for a premium service. See prices here: http://slidetalk.net/Home/Prices
Randy Rebman's curator insight,
December 18, 2013 9:06 AM
This could be a more engaging way to adapt presentations for flipping the classroom.
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August 5, 2013 2:49 AM
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Easy and free online video editor. Edit videos and photos to make great home movies.
There is a free offer, but premium offers start at $3.99 per month. These allow for more storage and better export quality and also remove branding. See http://www.shotclip.com/pricing for more information.
Free version provides up to 15 minutes of video export each month.
Videos are a great way to "test" knowledge - so this tool is a useful one for teachers
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Nik Peachey
July 22, 2013 2:31 AM
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BigMind is a perfect tool to create a mind map. It can record your ideas, create to-do list, take note at meeting and anywhere else you require a fast, intuitive method to collect ideas and information and think things through.
This looks like a great tool for those who really like their mind maps and their iPad. It's not free, but at $4.99 (£2.99) it won't break the bank.
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Nik Peachey
July 12, 2013 2:46 AM
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Mobile friendly - Built from scratch to work with iPad (and similar) devices.
Complete and powerful Support for SCORM, notifications, extensible user profiles etc.
Easy to maintain - Built with a preference for conventions over configurations. This means fewer things to configure, more time to deliver.
This looks like an interesting commercial tool if you want start building your own courses online. There is a free plan (limited to 5 users) but the cheapest usable plan is $29 a month.
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Nik Peachey
June 18, 2013 12:10 PM
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This is an interesting looking platform to connect teachers and learners for online lessons. It provides the tools to enable teachers to create their own courses and then register students. Not sure what percentage goes to the platform provider, but a good way to get started as a freelance online teacher.
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Nik Peachey
May 30, 2013 7:53 AM
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Interact with a virtual video tutor in short fun dialogs on your mobile and get instant pronunciation feedback. A natural speaking experience powered by Speech Recognition technology and innovative scoring logic. Learn naturally, like interacting with a person, not with content.
This is an interesting app for both iPhone and Android. You can practice dialogues with a virtual character. There is some free content, but the app runs on subscriptions (£2.99 a month). Worth giving a try though to see how it works for you.
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May 18, 2013 1:30 PM
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At http://www.learnclick.com it is very simple to create quizzes. For gap-filling exercises (so-called cloze tests) you just mark the words with your mouse. Learnclick.com also lets you generate drag & drop, drop down and matching exercises. You can insert images, video and sound into your quizzes. Share the quizzes with your students and view detailed statistics on how well your students performed. It is the ideal tool for language teachers.
Learnclick is a really useful tool. It isn't free, but at USD $1.59/month for teachers (students don't need to pay) it's very affordable (less than a cup of coffee) . Paying a small amount to support sites can also ensure that they continue to provide and develop a good service.
Our school district is implementing Anita Archer's Explicit Instruction and thes quizzes/activities will align well with her practices.
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Nik Peachey
March 28, 2013 8:42 AM
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My Life My NoteLedge - Record Every Moment in You Life You’ve heard how NoteLedge has changed people’s lives from the iPad and iPhone users. Now NoteLedge is hitting A...
This looks like a really attractive journaling tool for Android. Very reasonably priced at £1.31.
Build an app using this software.
Looks like this company has delivered on the great idea of making the creation of apps accessible to all. They have an education focus. I look forward to sitting down and doing some serious testing with this. Great implications for project based teaching and engagement. In library, learning commons and across campus.