On the Spot! Improvisation (improv) is a theater technique where you perform spontaneously without any preparation. This app is an improv prompt generator that can be used in classrooms to learn or in a social setting to have fun.
Tools for Teachers & Learners
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A collection of web and mobile based tools to help teachers and learners exploit digital resources
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Nik Peachey
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An online school builder that brings together live conferencing, payment-processing, and student management in one place. Virtually makes it easy to build and scale an online learning community. Create your own virtual classroom today.
Nik Peachey's insight:
With so many physical language schools closing down it's good to see that teachers have the opportunity to fill the gap in the market. This looks like a great platform. You can get started for free with up to 10 students and then pay $3 per student as you grow. 
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On Epihub, you can accept card or cash payments from your clients. Your main dashboard will always display an overview of sessions billed and packages sold.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Looks like a great way to start your own business.
Ronald.O's curator insight,
November 25, 2020 1:38 AM
Epihub is a teaching tool for anyone online. Whether you're a professor or a trainer, you can schedule, teach, and bill clients from your own custom website. Also, it is a resource that people could be used to access the classroom materials and where professors can upload lessons in a remote way or physical classroom directly from a platform.
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Use provided sample videos to animate your Puppet or record your own
Nik Peachey's insight:
Nice tool for entertaining speaking activities.
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Memorable networking doesn't have to be in-person. With MeetFromHome you can give your attendees a way to chat and meet new people as naturally as they would in real life.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great for allowing participants to mingle.
Ronald.O's curator insight,
November 25, 2020 3:16 AM
MeetFromHome is an online resource for interactive events. This social instrument can do better than boring meetings by bringing in tools for collaboration, networking, and engagement. Since making online events could be a challenge, this tool offers effective commitment and more options than others for online reunions.
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Gather information, Discuss ideas and Organize insights.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great tool for doing online project based learning.
Ronald.O's curator insight,
November 25, 2020 4:06 AM
Marimba gathers information from all sources and organizes it in ways that fit the cooperative work. Also, with video chat, observing mode, co-editing, integration with other tools, etc. many people remote colleagues can help on the same website. People could use Marimba to keep all their research references utilizing collaboration features to review design documents, conduct meetings, coordinate a marketing campaign, or even hold team-building events.
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Play the Scribbles & Ink game, watch videos, draw, paint, and do printable activities. Scribbles & Ink encourages kids to draw, paint, make art and express themselves!
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a great digital drawing tool for younger learners.
Ronald.O's curator insight,
November 25, 2020 4:22 AM
Scribbles and Ink is a website that includes interactive elements where students can draw elements that later appear in the story. It is a very educational tool for children to experience visualization and drawing. Learners can watch animated adventures, which is stopping periodically to ask children to draw objects. This drawing tool offers a variety of colors and utensil options, such as a marker or spray paint. Thus, in the end, the children will see their illustrations incorporated in the different sections.
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Using Artificial Intelligence, WordUp analyses millions of movies, TV shows, songs, news stories and famous people's quotes, to bring you the most helpful, engaging and enjoyable examples for each word.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks interesting.
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Remotely.fm is the recording platform podcasters use to record remote interviews in studio quality. Nothing to install. Just hit record.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great tool for recording audio or video interviews. You get the first 3 hours of recording for free.
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This is a great tool for creating learning roadmaps for students. They can easily tick off goals as they are completed.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a great tool for creating learning roadmaps for students. They can easily tick off goals as they are completed.
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This free app has updates on free webinars as well as links to our products and a regularly updated toolbox with links to apps and resources for the physical and remote classroom.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Our free app - Teacher Toolbox
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Relanote is а tool that combines both hierarchical and non-hierarchical note-taking. The files and folders method allows you to put some order while the bi-directional links to connect the dots and see the bigger picture. By leveraging the power of both methods, Relanote adapts to your way of thinking.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a notetaking app that looks like a combination of wiki and mindmap.
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Speak & Improve is a research project for learners of English to practise their spoken English. Take a test and get an estimated score for your English speaking.
Nik Peachey's insight:
An interesting tool from Cambridge English.
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With Podcastle, you can convert your favorite news and articles to podcasts for free. Listen to the stories you love and do it efficiently with our powerful text to speech converter based on machine learning.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a Chrome plugin for developing listening skills.
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Bring your classes alive with a mix of fun games, quick quizzes, and cool displays that are sure to hook learners. Back to School Offer - Get monthly subscription of Raptivity for Virtual Classroom at $15. Offer valid till Oct 31, 2020.
Nik Peachey's insight:
A really useful tool for creating engaging courses.
Ronald.O's curator insight,
November 25, 2020 3:00 AM
Raptivity is a useful interactive tool for creating online lessons that comes with a library of pre-built templates, most of which are attractive. The pre-built templates provide a way to quickly assemble an interaction or presentation. Raptivity could be used to create a stand-alone course or it can import the published file into another tool like Articulate Presenter or Captivate.
juanita.garcia1@utp.edu.co's curator insight,
November 26, 2020 6:47 PM
Raptivity is a useful interactive tool for creating online lessons that comes with a library of templates made by the same platform, most of which are attractive. Predesigned templates provide a way to quickly assemble an interaction or presentation. Raptivity could be used to create a standalone course or you can import the published file into another tool like Articulate Presenter or Captivate, which can be very useful for both teachers and students.
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Rather than simple facts, words are a lot more like people – some words like to hang out with other words, in places they enjoy, doing things they like together – but the same words are also never seen with some other words because they just don’t like each other.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like an interesting vocabulary development app.
Ronald.O's curator insight,
November 25, 2020 3:57 AM
Vocab Dice is an interesting application for taking notes of the most important features of a word or phrase, and then play games to help remember them. Vocab Dice can search all your notes, by topic, keyword, word partner; so that you can play games to revise all your vocab notes whenever you want. Besides, this tool is a great way to review vocabulary words and find different ways of understanding what each word means because with this strategy learners can work in groups.
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This is a platform for creating and administering a range of different language teaching and testing assignments, which cover all four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing. It is compatible with smartphones, tablets, desktops, and laptops, and runs on all modern browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and iOS Safari. Teachers can log into the site with their Google or Microsoft account and start making assignments immediately. Students do not need to register with the site, and simply input their details when they submit an assignment, thus making onboarding super simple and easy.
Nik Peachey's insight:
A great way of setting student homework and evaluating their progress.
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Dreamdo Schools is used in over 25 countries. Our easy-to-use platform enables meaningful and motivational student-led projects in classrooms around the world. You can use Dreamdo Schools with elementary, middle and high school students.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great free platform with resources to get students involved in projects.
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Makers Empire 3D is the world’s easiest to use 3D design software – start designing in 3D in minutes!
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great free 3D creation software for kids.
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Benefit from hundreds of learning activity ideas in the free resource library. Use powerful teaching tools to plan lessons as you save yourself hours each week in prep and organizational work - manage course continuity with ease… Inspire and be inspired with Teachwise!
Nik Peachey's insight:
A great collection of teaching tips and suggestions.
Anny's curator insight,
September 4, 2020 11:30 AM
This is a great app to use in class, specially with young adults. The app offers the possibility to... and it allows teachers to....
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Peer-to-peer voice chat that simulates an actual room, where your audio feed adjusts based on your spatial location.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is an interesting tool for doing mingle activities in a simple way. Students can move around the room using arrows on their keyboard.
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Forget massive tuition costs, get your degree online for free. Let Prodeus catalog the hours you spend learning on Youtube and all the work you do along the way.
Nik Peachey's insight:
I really like this idea (in theory).
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The Teachwise Lesson Planner saves hours each week in prep time. Search out, create, share and store all sorts of learning activities and resources in the free Community resource library. Teachwise is inspiration, organization, planning and continuity made easy!
Nik Peachey's insight:
A great collection of really easy to use teaching ideas and materials.
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Influent is a Language Learning Game focused on vocabulary acquisition and pronunciation that gives players the freedom to choose the words they want to learn without the need for pencils or books!
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a lot of fun.
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The easiest way to record and capture your screen online. Works on your Windows or Mac computer, no software download or plugin required.
Nik Peachey's insight:
I really like this free online screencast video recorder.
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This is an interesting app to get students doing instant role plays.