Tools for Teachers & Learners
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Tools for Teachers & Learners
A collection of web and mobile based tools to help teachers and learners exploit digital resources
Curated by Nik Peachey
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The rise of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

The rise of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Research suggests that online learning has been shown to increase retention of information, and take less time, meaning the changes coronavirus have caused might be here to stay.
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A look at the future of education.

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May 4, 2020 5:24 AM
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EFL.digital

EFL.digital | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

EFL.digital (https://EFL.digital) is a FREE platform for generating, assigning, and submitting a range of different English teaching and testing assignments.
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 account and start making assignments immediately.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a great tool for creating online homework assignments.

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April 22, 2020 6:23 AM
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The Simplest Mind Mapping Software

The Simplest Mind Mapping Software | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Create Mind Maps, Concept Maps, Brain Mapping with our Online Free Mind Mapping Maker Software. Loved by Users from +140 Countries. Sign Up Free!
Nik Peachey's insight:

It does look simple.

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April 21, 2020 6:18 AM
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Leonardo English | Learn English with Podcasts

Leonardo English | Learn English with Podcasts | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
The home of the 'English Learning for Curious Minds' podcast, trusted by listeners from 142 countries. Learn about the world while learning English through podcasts. Every podcast comes with a transcript and key vocabulary so you can understand every word.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Great way to improve listening and pronunciation. Also great for CLIL

Kübra's curator insight, April 30, 2020 5:39 AM

Great way to improve listening and pronunciation. Also great for CLIL

Katherine Giraldo's curator insight, May 15, 2020 10:04 AM
It is a tool to practice your listening skills. It also offers audios from different countries with which you can learn to differentiate between different accents. In addition, each podcast contains vocabulary that will help you better understand the audios and learn new words.
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April 9, 2020 1:36 PM
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Meet - Instant Free Videoconferencing

Meet - Instant Free Videoconferencing | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Jitsi Meet offers free, secure, flexible, open-source video conferencing. Start using Jitsi Meet today. Build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions.
Nik Peachey's insight:

An open source alternative to Zoom

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April 7, 2020 9:34 AM
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Remotehour

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A nice tool for making yourself available each day for a quick video chat with students

Nik Peachey's insight:

Looks very useful.

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April 4, 2020 9:33 AM
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CryptPad: Free Online Collaborative Tools with Real Time Editing

CryptPad: Free Online Collaborative Tools with Real Time Editing | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

CryptPad is a private-by-design alternative to popular office tools and cloud services. All the content stored on CryptPad is encrypted before being sent, which means nobody can access your data unless you give them the keys (not even us).

Nik Peachey's insight:

Great tools for developing students' online collaboration skills.

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March 31, 2020 11:36 AM
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Add learning activities and games to your zoom classroom with Raptivity

Add learning activities and games to your zoom classroom with Raptivity | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
In these difficult times when schools and universities are rushing to develop credible and engaging online learning, Raptivity 2020 looks like a really useful low-cost tool to enable that process.

Raptivity 2020 is a great content authoring tool and is capable of creating dynamic and media-rich learning that is adaptive across mobile, tablet and desktop screens.
Nik Peachey's insight:

My review of Raptivity 2020.

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March 25, 2020 7:54 AM
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The Future of Classroom Discussions

The Future of Classroom Discussions | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Parlay puts your students and their unique perspectives at the heart of learning, and gives you the data that you need to help them grow.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A really nice way to build and develop web-based and classroom interaction.

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March 25, 2020 1:57 AM
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bulb | Digital Portfolio | Online Portfolios for Everyone

bulb | Digital Portfolio | Online Portfolios for Everyone | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
bulb Digital Portfolios - With a bulb digital portfolio, showcase your skills through beautiful, multimedia content on an incredibly easy-to-use platform. For iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Chromebooks and Computers with Chrome o
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a very useful ePortfolio tool.

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March 16, 2020 6:41 AM
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Audio Lingua - mp3s in 13 Languages

Audio Lingua - mp3s in 13 Languages | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Audio-Lingua offers mp3 recordings in several languages. Choose below the language you would like to listen to or use the browser on the right-hand side.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great resource for developing listening skills.

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March 11, 2020 6:29 AM
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Tech against Coronavirus - a list to work and learn remotely | Tech against Coronavirus

Tech against Coronavirus - a list to work and learn remotely | Tech against Coronavirus | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Simple list to help you work and learn #remotely. In the times of coronavirus outbreak lots of software companies are helping teams around the world keep a certain level of normality. Stay safe!
Nik Peachey's insight:

A large list of useful resources for vistual working and teaching.

Laura Valentina Gallego Berrío's curator insight, March 15, 2020 3:20 PM
As we already know, the coronavirus pandemic has been world news, many have been afraid to leave their homes to work, study, party or other plans, but based on this article there are several means that we have to avoid a contagion, and continue without fear before this. 
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Premium File Sharing Solution for Mobile and Desktop

Premium File Sharing Solution for Mobile and Desktop | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Trango is a file sharing utility that allows you to send all sorts of files, across every major platform, with warp speed and privacy.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Only the Android version is available at present but other versions are coming soon. Great that in can work without an internet connection.

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Whiteboard.fi - Online whiteboard for teachers and classrooms

Whiteboard.fi - Online whiteboard for teachers and classrooms | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Whiteboard.fi is an instant formative assessment tool for your classroom, providing you with live feedback and immediate overview over your students.
Nik Peachey's insight:

I love this. Each student gets there own whiteboatrd and you can see what each one is doing on their board. Great tool for getting creative in the online classroom.

Alvaro Martinez de la Vega's curator insight, May 8, 2020 12:58 PM
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Shannon Coad's comment, June 1, 2020 9:16 PM
This is an excellent resource to use and link digital literacy to it instead of paper or a white board and wasting of valuable resources. This would also encourage engagement and reduce the fear of being wrong which can sometime impede students from giving answers or getting proper formative assessment from them
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April 27, 2020 12:16 PM
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Facebook Introduces Messenger Rooms

Facebook Introduces Messenger Rooms | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Today, we are rolling out Messenger Rooms, which are joinable group video calls that make it easy to spend quality time with friends, loved ones and people who share your interests. Create a room right from Messenger or Facebook, and invite anyone to join, even if they don’t have a Facebook account. Rooms will soon hold up to 50 people with no time limit.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Looks like facebook is trying to take over from Zoom.

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April 21, 2020 10:15 AM
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Hatch App - Stay Focused & Productive

Hatch App - Stay Focused & Productive | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
The first app to make focusing fun! Combat phone addiction with a beautifully designed tool to study, read, and be more present with friends and family.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Great idea.

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April 21, 2020 12:24 AM
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Saylient | Transcribe and Annotate Audio Using AI

Saylient | Transcribe and Annotate Audio Using AI | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Accurate interview transcriptions. Saylient helps you transcribe, highlight, tag and share your conversations and meetings.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks very useful.

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April 9, 2020 5:03 AM
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Audible Stories: Free Audiobooks for Kids

Audible Stories: Free Audiobooks for Kids | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Free stories for kids of all ages. Audible Stories is a free website where kids of all ages can listen to hundreds of Audible audio titles across six different languages—English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese—for free, so they can keep learning, dreaming and just being kids.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Great resource for developing listening skills.

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WBO — Online collaborative whiteboard

WBO — Online collaborative whiteboard | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

WBO is a free and open-source online collaborative whiteboard that allows many users to draw simultaneously on a large virtual board. The board is updated in real time for all connected users, and its state is always persisted. It can be used for many different purposes, including art, entertainment, design and teaching.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A simple to use collaborative whiteboard.

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Hubs - Private social VR and video conferencing in your web browser

Hubs - Private social VR and video conferencing in your web browser | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a great alternative to Zoom, especially if you are working with younger learners who are looking for something a bit more fun than talking heads. This is a complete 3D virtual world where you can screen share, video conference, chat and work together. It's also made by Mozilla, so comes with a good reputation for privacy and security.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Great alternative to Zoom for younger learners.

BAILLOT Patrick's curator insight, April 8, 2020 2:54 PM

Comment organiser une conférence web avec Firefox Mozilla.

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GitMind - Free Online Mind Mapping

GitMind is a free online mind map maker for brainstorming, project planning, development, action and other creative tasks. This tool lets you share mind maps with tons of users and collaborate with them.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks very useful.

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March 25, 2020 7:12 AM
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Free Tech for Learning

Free Tech for Learning | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
A coalition of education organizations has curated strategies, tips and best practices for teaching online during the coronavirus pandemic.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A huge collection of resources.

Tina Jameson's curator insight, April 2, 2020 6:00 PM
A collated list that can be filtered by year level and topic, of free online teaching support tools.
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Nik's QuickShout: Plexie for collaborative online creation

Nik's QuickShout: Plexie for collaborative online creation | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Plexie is a really interesting web-based app and quite a hard one to define. Basically it allows teams to work collaboratively in a web-based document to produce digital content that can either be published and shared publicly or kept private for only limited team members.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is an interesting tool to get teachers and students producing online content together.

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March 11, 2020 6:51 AM
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PeacheyPublications - Materials Designed for the Digital World

PeacheyPublications - Materials Designed for the Digital World | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

All of our teaching materials have been designed with online learning, blended and digital classrooms in mind.

Nik Peachey's insight:

The complete catalogue of materials.

ava_emily's comment, March 13, 2020 2:58 AM
Great post I really like your topic Keep posting
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Innovative Business Planning and Modelling Software

Innovative Business Planning and Modelling Software | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
You have a brilliant business idea? IdeaBuddy will help you to create a business model, develop your idea, and get a beautiful business plan
Nik Peachey's insight:

Great for Busness English project work.

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