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Been thinking about creating video tutorials or demo videos on your Macintosh? Movavi makes it easy with the new Screen Capture software for Mac. Record screencasts at full screen, including from high resolution Retina displays, or choose any part of the screen. Capture the mouse cursor or exclude it from the recording. Record sounds. Create smooth screencasts for viewing on your Apple devices. 
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Kikutext is a service that makes it easy for teachers to communicate with parents using text messaging so students perform better
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a useful tool for keeping in touch with parents. There is a free version for up to 15 parents and a Pro version for $10 a month.
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TinyTap is the perfect addition to any classroom. It’s now simpler than ever for teachers to create fun and interactive activity books. Teachers worldwide are using the platform as teaching aid in the classroom. TinyTap is also being successfully used for people with autism. ● Features ✔ Graphics are enhanced to suit new iPad retina display The app is free to download but requires in-app purchase of different game formats, but these are very cheap and average around $0.99 -$1.99.
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Ripcasting Cam lets you do live webcam broadcast of mac including both video and audio. You can view the broadcast on a different mac or iOS device such as iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Ripcasting Cam is designed with security in mind. Your webcam broadcast is secured with a personal login ID and passcode. But of course, you can share your webcam broadcast by sharing the login info with other people, so they can view it too.$7.99 from iTunes.
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This site provides a number of game type templates that teachers can edit and add their own content to. Each game type is sold under individual license so it can star to get expensive (average price around $29 per game) but once you have downloaded the template you can create as many games as you want with it. You can demo each game before you buy, so good to check them out and choose one the suits the type of elearning content you would like to create.
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The KNeo World Back to Fun Pack is a complete set of games designed to promote a balanced model of learning across the core disciplines of science, numeracy, language and design. The content is suitable for children of all ages but adults may also see some significant benefits from playing the games and tracking their progress. Titles vary from fun casual games to more in-depth games. Ideal for CLIL classes.
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Skyprep is a web-based training software which provides online training, testing and reporting. You can create and sell your own online courses very quickly and easily. Skyprep runs on a commission basis and takes a percentage of the price you charge for your courses.
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Voice Translate allows you to not only translate the text with your voice, but is also a portable interpreter. Thus, learning a new language is very simple! Talk in your phone in one language and hear it immeaditly in another language. 20+ languages available.
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MovieStorm is a great app for creating 3D animated movies. You can choose from a range o characters and locations, quickly and easily decide how they will move and add your own automatically lip synced voice overs. Great tool for developing multimedia materials and projects. For iPad 2/3 - £6.99
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This looks like a great app for recording feedback on students' work using your iPad. Just open a copy of their assignment and start annotating it and adding your feedback as a video and audio recording to send to them. The app isn't free, but at $2.99, it's still affordable.
Juan Fernández's curator insight,
August 1, 2014 2:29 PM
"This looks like a great app for recording feedback on students' work using your iPad. Just open a copy of their assignment and start annotating it and adding your feedback as a video and audio recording to send to them. The app isn't free, but at $2.99, it's still affordable." Nick Peachey.
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Markin is a Windows program which runs on the teacher's computer. It can import a student's text for marking by pasting from the clipboard, or directly from a document file. Once the text has been imported, Markin provides a comprehensive set of tools enabling the teacher to mark and annotate the text.
Markin v4 Single-User Licence Pricing
The price of a single-user Markin licence is £25.00 - this is approximately US$39.50, or €29.50
Multi-User Licensing for Schools and Colleges For a full explanation of what Extra Seats are, and how multi-used licensing works, please see the
Licensing page. The price of extra seats depends on the number you buy: 1-10 seats: £12 each (approx US$18.96, or €14.16) 11-25 seats: £10 each (approx US$15.80, or €11.80) 26-50 seats: £8.50 each (approx US$13.43, or €10.03) 51-100 seats: £7 each (approx US$11.06, or €8.26)
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For those of you interested in trying to build your own e-learning site this is a great resource. You can set up your own Moodle platform in minutes without having to have your own server or server space. All you need to do is send an email and then you can start building your own courses. The free offer carries advertising, but for a small fee this can be removed.
These are the rates for premium sites: You can switch off the advertising on your site by making a donation using any of the PayPal buttons below. Please tell us your site name! 15€ and get a month without ads on your site 40€ and get three months without ads on your site 60€ and get six months without ads on your site 100€ and get a year without ads on your site
Juan Fernández's curator insight,
August 1, 2014 2:37 PM
"For those of you interested in trying to build your own e-learning site this is a great resource. You can set up your own Moodle platform in minutes without having to have your own server or server space. All you need to do is send an email and then you can start building your own courses. The free offer carries advertising, but for a small fee this can be removed." Nick Peachey
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Create Lesson Plans, Exercises and Class Materials from today's real news. Find articles you or your students like using keywords, level and grammar search.
Create and manage your own lessons, articles, resources and exercises automatically. Subscribe for Only €40 for 1yr
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Safely and securely backchannel your classroom discussions. We provide educators full control of chat activities and provide students with a tool that makes learning engaging.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a good product if you really want to take back channeling seriously and have a reliable service for larger classes. There is a free plan, but a commercial plan starts at a very reasonable $15 a year.
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Design, edit and publish stunning documents with Word by ICSOFT for the Mac. Loaded with a robust array of features and fully optimized for the sumptuous Retina display, no other desktop publishing app houses as much utility in such and immersive interface. App Store - $9.99 or £6.99
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Learn English by Radio uses classic American radio shows such as Dragnet, a popular crime drama, to teach you English. Hear the language as spoken by gutsy cops and low-life criminal scum. Master all the common obstacles to understanding spoken English, including idioms, slang, informal contractions and odd pronunciations. Work your way up to understanding conversational English by slowing it down and reading each of the words until they stick. If you think this wll work for you, buy it from the iTunes store $2.99
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This is a nice low cost ($0.99) app that allows students to take photographs and add captions to them. It would be a great tool for creating their own visual dictionary. Just snap a picture and add the word and mayb even a translation.
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This isn't strictly speaking an app for developing language, but it does have great potential for creating movies which could be used in language teaching to illustrate various concepts. It's a great tool for creating and sharing interactive graphics. It's produced by LindenLab, the creators of Second Life.
Ana Cristina Pratas's comment,
November 2, 2012 4:28 AM
This can have great uses in classes; thank you so much Nik!
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MyShelf is your personal shelf for notes, pictures, links, text snippets of any kind. You have them with you at all times - in your mobile, in your tablet and at home on your desktop.This is a great tool for storing all your media across all your devices. The apps are very reasonablly priced at around $3
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This is a simple audience response system that exploits mobile devices to give speakers / lecturers feedback as they deliver the lecture to make sure their audience is following. The system is free for students to use, but teachers / schools have to pay. Prices start from a simple subscription of $3 a month.
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This Word Pack is used in conjunction with the free Word Learner App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wordLe... as a great tool to develop your vocabulary. The Word Learner: GRE / CAT pack adds over 1500 words to those already available in the free app. The app is for Android users only, but this is a great way to develop your vocabulary on the go.
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Storyboard That presents a great opportunity for students to work together. When creating a storyboard students can discuss what they want their story to say, how to structure it, and of course what imagery to use. After they are created students can’t wait to share their storyboards with their friends and get their feedback, and make their own storyboards that much better. For a lot of people the free version of Storyboard That will work just great. For those of you that need more power though, we encourage you to upgrade. See: http://www.storyboardthat.com/Purchase
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PowToon is a brand new presentation tool that allows you to create animated presentations and cartoon style videos just by dragging and dropping. It looks pretty impressive and there is a free trial demo. Price plans start from $9 a monh.
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Improve your English with hit movies, cult TV shows, music videos and games. While a small selection of daily content units is available for free at English Attack!, unlimited access to the full catalogue of content units and games requires a premium subscription. - 1 Month - £9 per month - 6 Months - £7 per month - 12 Months - £ 5 per month
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At £19 this looks like quite a bargain for anyone wanting to do screen capture on a Mac