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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Questup - engage the audience!

Questup - engage the audience! | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Questions are crucial for understanding. It’s the basis of all conversations and a tool for learning. We believe that all people should be able to ask questions. With Questup everyone gets a way to get answers, regardless if you are the shy guy in the corner or the confident girl at the front row.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Audience participation tool.

ava_emily's comment, March 13, 2020 2:59 AM
It is good for online marketing who want to get more audience online.
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February 28, 2020 4:06 AM
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Actively Learn - A Huge Resource of Ready-Made Interactive Learning for English Language Learners

Actively Learn - A Huge Resource of Ready-Made Interactive Learning for English Language Learners | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

It’s also an LMS that enables you to create and track the use of learning materials across your classes, and a teacher development tool that enables you to train teachers in aspects of materials development and instructional design.

Nik Peachey's insight:

My blog review.

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February 18, 2020 6:34 AM
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Campusknot

Campusknot | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Campusknot is a cloud-based social LMS that allows classroom and campus engagement in a centralized platform. A hub for students, faculty, and administrator’s to collaborate.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Looks interesting.

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February 17, 2020 6:44 AM
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Infinite Learning Platform

Jooseph is an online education assistant empowered by people, you easily learn any subject from your peers. It's like playlists but for learning.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks interesting. Still early days yet, but a nice way to make curation into something more structured and productive.

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February 10, 2020 11:09 AM
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Text 2 Voice - Convert your text to voice for free

Text 2 Voice - Convert your text to voice for free | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
This website offers free text to speech conversion service.Convert your text into speech with natural voices.Unlimited speech synthesis with mp3 audio download.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Not perfect, but not bad either.

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HTML5 game-based learning authoring tool

HTML5 game-based learning authoring tool | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Jetpack Learning's authoring tool enables publishers to create game-based learning in minutes. No technical skills required, just a passion for education.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A nice tool for creating your own learning games.

Yael Even-Levy, PhD (Second Life: JoelleYalin)'s curator insight, February 8, 2020 12:36 PM

Pre-designed interactive HTML5 educational games that can be customized. Suitable for kids of all ages. 

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Gimkit | Live Quiz Learning Game

Gimkit | Live Quiz Learning Game | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
After every game, Gimkit generates a report detailing what your class needs help on. Individual reports allow you to help specific students.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Looks like a lot of fun learning.

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February 3, 2020 11:21 AM
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XRoom - Video conferencing

XRoom - Video conferencing | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

XROOM is a simple, free and secure video conferencing and webinar service with an indirect earnings business model. It features secure video calls, screen sharing, text and file exchange, plugins, recordings, rooms API, white label possibility (custom domains, custom color schemes), localizations. Plugins system allows you to add whatever functionality you need.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Interesting free videoconferencing and webinar room for desktop and mobile browser.

Limitless Learning Limited's curator insight, February 18, 2020 11:12 AM
Free video conferencing software
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January 13, 2020 5:49 AM
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Cozy Reader: a secure place for your articles

Cozy Reader: a secure place for your articles | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Cozy uses BlockStack to (forever!) save all the articles you want to read.
Which means that yes, even if the website goes down or the original articles are deleted, you will have access to the articles!

Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a useful tool for students to store reading and research articles.

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January 9, 2020 5:35 AM
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Eduflow for building online, blended and flipped courses

Eduflow for building online, blended and flipped courses | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
What I really like about Eduflow is that it takes a lot of the work out of the course construction process by having ready-made blocks or 'flows' that you can just select and add your content to.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Eduflow is a great tool for quickly creating online courses.

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January 4, 2020 7:32 AM
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Don't spend your valuable time creating simple questions anymore. Automate question creation with Quillionz.

Don't spend your valuable time creating simple questions anymore. Automate question creation with Quillionz. | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Transform the way you create quizzes and tests. Check out Quillionz - the world’s first AI-powered question generator. Quillionz works with any textual content - a chapter in the textbook, an article off the internet, or even a video transcript - and automatically creates questions on it in a matter of seconds. Get started for free now.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great tool for automating quizzes and creating questions for any text.

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December 31, 2019 5:59 AM
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Brothers Across Borders - English |

Brothers Across Borders - English | | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Brothers Across Borders” is an interactive film based on the true stories of Syrian refugees in Turkey. You are Ismael. A 21-year old Syrian refugee on a mission to find his brother, Muhammed. Muhammed, as the oldest brother, went to Turkey to find a new and safer home for the family, but never returned to Syria.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Great interactive film. Excellent reading practice for students.

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December 30, 2019 5:56 AM
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Stop Disasters! - Video game

Stop Disasters! - Video game | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Players must carefully manage resources, plan cities, and build defenses to protect their population. Student fact sheets, resource links, and teacher planning tools are available.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Great video game for students to learn about disasters and how to stopp them.

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March 2, 2020 11:30 AM
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Ovvio - A Notebook for Teams

Ovvio - A Notebook for Teams | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Your team's digital notebook. Assign & track tasks straight from your digital notebook

Nik Peachey's insight:

This could be a good tool for building teamworking skills.

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February 19, 2020 3:37 AM
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Floop - Meaningful feedback, faster

Floop - Meaningful feedback, faster | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Students learn how to use feedback to grow. Empower students to give feedback through guided peer review. Coach along the way with feedback read receipts.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Floop is a free web app that saves teachers time and helps students see the value in feedback.

Robert Kasza's curator insight, February 19, 2020 8:40 AM
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February 18, 2020 5:59 AM
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‎OSnap! •Stop Motion Time-Lapse on the App Store

‎OSnap! •Stop Motion Time-Lapse on the App Store | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

‎Simple, intuitive, powerful time-lapse and stop motion photography.

Try OSnap! and find out why it's the #1 choice among pro time-lapse & stop animation experts!

Nik Peachey's insight:

Nice stop-motion video creation tool.

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February 11, 2020 12:50 PM
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Cliplingo

Cliplingo | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Cliplingo Turns YouTube Into Spaced Repetition Language Learning. Simply watch and learn. You don’t need to worry about which clip, when and how often. Cliplingo takes care of this for you.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a huge collection of language learning videos from YouTube that have been organised into levels and topics and then had a spaced repetition engine built around them. Very handy.

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February 9, 2020 5:31 AM
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Summary Box - Text Summarizer

Summary Box - Text Summarizer | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Summarize news articles, blog posts, and videos and AI will extract the key sentences

Nik Peachey's insight:

A useful Chrome extension.

Peter Lakeman's curator insight, February 10, 2020 4:02 AM

Google chrome extensie om automatisch samenvattingen van teksten te maken met AI

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Digital Passport™ by Common Sense Education

Digital Passport™ by Common Sense Education | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Digital Passport by Common Sense Education is an award-winning suite of engaging games that address key issues facing kids in today's digital world.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Great collection of games to educate kids about the key issues in the digital world today.

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February 4, 2020 5:22 AM
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ThingLink for teachers and schools — ThingLink

ThingLink for teachers and schools — ThingLink | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Create visual experiences for student-centered learning
Nik Peachey's insight:

Great tool with a wide variety of applications.

Peter Lakeman's curator insight, February 9, 2020 7:29 AM

Maak afbeeldingen interactief met ThingLink.

 
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January 16, 2020 6:25 AM
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Vocab Victor for developing vocabulary knowledge

Vocab Victor for developing vocabulary knowledge | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Vocab Victor is a great app and resource for developing vocabulary. I say app and resource because as well as the free app you can download from the site, there are also some great resources on the website.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a really useful resource.

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January 9, 2020 11:37 AM
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Troll Factory

Troll Factory | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Troll Factory shows you first-hand how information operations work on social media. The goal of the game is to illustrate how fake news, emotive content and bot armies are utilized to affect moods, opinions and decision-making.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Useful game to help students understand how social media is used to manipulate.

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iCivics - Games to understand how our political systems work

iCivics - Games to understand how our political systems work | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

iCivics works because we make the subject come alive.
Our innovative games and supporting classroom resources teach young people to understand how our political systems work by allowing them to experience it first-hand and empowering them to address real-world issues.

Nik Peachey's insight:

These look like useful learning games.

Yael Even-Levy, PhD (Second Life: JoelleYalin)'s curator insight, February 16, 2020 6:23 PM

Very timely and informative info suitable for all ages.

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Callaba - Browser-based video conferencing

Callaba - Browser-based video conferencing | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Callaba is free web platform for online calls. With Callaba, all you need to start a conversation is a device with an active internet connection.
Registering is not required, and there’s nothing that a user needs to download.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A very easy to use free tool.

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December 30, 2019 6:03 AM
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Educandy – Making learning sweeter!

Educandy – Making learning sweeter! | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

With Educandy, you can create interactive learning games in minutes. All you need is to enter the vocabulary or questions and answers and Educandy turns your content into cool interactive activities.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A nice tool for creating vocabulary revision.

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