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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AppHive | Create an App | Online App maker | App Builder

The easiest way to make an app for android and IOS, you can create free mobile app without programming, drag and drop elements, build an app in minutes, you can create applications like Uber or Airbnb, Apphive is the android app builder and the IOS app builder.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A great free tool you can use to do projects with your students.

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December 18, 2019 4:09 AM
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PlayPhrase.me: Largest collection of video quotes from movies on the web

PlayPhrase.me: Largest collection of video quotes from movies on the web | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Improve your pronunciation: search phrases in movies and watch and listen videos with them.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Excellent listening and pronunciation practice.

Rosa María Guilleumas's curator insight, December 18, 2019 10:09 AM
Useful and entertaining tool for checking and learning pronunciation
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December 5, 2019 12:38 AM
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Oral Language Assessment Tools, Open Free Instructor Account

Oral Language Assessment Tools, Open Free Instructor Account | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Extempore is a speaking practice app that provides an oral language assessment tool to instructors and educators. Open your free account now.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A great tool to evaluate students' speaking skills.

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November 27, 2019 4:54 AM
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Setting students speaking tasks for homework with extempore

Setting students speaking tasks for homework with extempore | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Extempore enables teachers to create and set speaking activities for students as homework. Using the extempore LMS and app, teachers can create speaking activities for students that they can do at home using their mobile phone or computer. They can record their homework using either voice or video, which is then pushed to the teacher through the LMS.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a really useful tool for developing students' speaking skills.

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November 25, 2019 5:35 AM
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Vocab Victor English Word Learning Game. Build and improve vocabulary!

Vocab Victor English Word Learning Game. Build and improve vocabulary! | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Vocab Victor helps students build and strengthen their vocabulary. This innovative smartphone app uses four colorful games to teach multiple associations for words. Victor’s sophisticated learner model remembers and repeats words until they are learned, and introduces new words at the learner’s level. Choose one of our new word lists to focus your studies!

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great app to help students develop their vocabulary.

Yael Even-Levy, PhD (Second Life: JoelleYalin)'s curator insight, February 16, 2020 6:25 PM

Learning English and improving learners' vocab - the fun way | #gamification

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November 25, 2019 6:09 AM
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Tinycards — Flashcards by Duolingo

Tinycards — Flashcards by Duolingo | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Memorize anything while playing a game! Tinycards is a brand new app created by the team behind Duolingo, the most downloaded education app in the world.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A useful tool for creating flashcards for revision and learning.

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November 19, 2019 4:00 AM
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Take notes on videos - MoocNote

Take notes on videos - MoocNote | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
MoocNote helps, to get the most out of YouTube and other videos with simple note taking, automatic screen captures, grab text from videos and many more.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a useful digital notetaking tool.

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November 18, 2019 9:31 AM
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Vocaroo | Online voice recorder

Vocaroo | Online voice recorder | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Vocaroo is a quick and easy way to share voice messages over the interwebs.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Good to see there's a new verison of Vocaroo that doesn't use Flash.

Marco Bertolini's curator insight, December 4, 2019 3:39 AM

An online voice recorder to share your audio messages through the web ;)

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November 12, 2019 11:28 AM
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Create better presentations faster | SlideLab

Create better presentations faster | SlideLab | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
SlideLab is a new platform for creating modern professional interactive presentations
Nik Peachey's insight:

A nice simple to use free tool for creating modern presentations.

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November 12, 2019 5:39 AM
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Free and Wireless Mirroring App

LetsView is a free wireless mirror tool which is compatible with different platforms. It is easy to operate and enables users to screen share between Android, iOS, Mac, TV and other devices without USB cable or HDMI cable.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like auseful free tool for the digital classroom.

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November 4, 2019 6:39 AM
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Evoke Music

Evoke Music | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Evoke Music is a royalty free music library created with artificial intelligence. Music can be used on YouTube, facebook, instagram, tik tok, twitch, podcasts and other platforms for free.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Create royalty free music for your projetcs.

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October 30, 2019 6:31 AM
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VidReader - The very first smart reader for videos.

VidReader - The very first smart reader for videos. | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

We use NLP + AI to create article-like transcripts for your videos. Now you can read, search, and locate a segment within any videos quickly.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A quick way to create transcriptions of videos.

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October 17, 2019 4:49 AM
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Random Word Generator

Random Word Generator | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Generate random words, nouns, verbs, adjectives, letters, phrases, sentences or numbers to brainstorm and create new ideas at Random Word Generator.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Very useful site for generating a range of random word types and sentences.

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December 19, 2019 4:03 AM
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OpenMoji

Open source emojis for designers, developers and everyone else!
Nik Peachey's insight:

Yes. Emojis are copyright materials, but here you can download emojis for use in projects under CC 4.0

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December 16, 2019 5:36 AM
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MonsterWriter - Distraction Free Writing for Scientific Papers and Sophisticated Content

MonsterWriter - Distraction Free Writing for Scientific Papers and Sophisticated Content | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
MonsterWriter - Don't be bothered by formatting content, moving headings from one page to another, manual creation of bibliographies, ... MonsterWriter provides a distraction free writing environments optimized for scholar writings
Nik Peachey's insight:

Nice to see that you can also export as epub, so could be useful for creative writers too.

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December 4, 2019 12:52 PM
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Create a chatbot with - Botmake.io

Create a chatbot with - Botmake.io | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Super simple and clean chatbot creation tool.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great way to get your students writing questions and answers.

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November 26, 2019 8:46 AM
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GoBrunch - Free webinar platform

GoBrunch - Free webinar platform | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

GoBrunch is a revolutionary place where you can learn and share best practices through live webinars and virtual meetings... everything for free.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a really great platform for educators.

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November 25, 2019 11:13 AM
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Playpost - Instant podcasts of every article

Playpost - Instant podcasts of every article | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Playpost transforms every article on the web into audio using industry-leading high-quality voices. So you can listen to it just like Podcasts and Audiobooks.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A useful freemium app for developing listeing skills.

Marco Bertolini's curator insight, November 26, 2019 4:23 AM

Playpost; listen to articles in several languages as if they were podcasts.  The voice and the reading quality are truely amazing

Bart van Maanen's curator insight, November 26, 2019 4:28 AM
Interessante toepassing, helaas niet geschikt voor ons prachtige Nederlands.
Agnieszka Jackowska-Moore's curator insight, November 30, 2019 2:58 AM
Podcasts app
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November 19, 2019 8:05 AM
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The Portfolio & Assessment Platform

The Portfolio & Assessment Platform | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
FreshGrade is a learning network that seamlessly integrates a digital portfolio, flexible gradebook, and real time communication platform.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like an interesting free tool for teachers. It combines lesson planning tools with eportfolio and communications tools.

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November 18, 2019 1:23 PM
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EFL / ESL Games, Activities, Projects and Conversation

EFL / ESL Games, Activities, Projects and Conversation | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Welcome to eslactive.com! Find all the best EFL / ESL games, activities, projects, conversation ideas, and interactive resources right here.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A wide variety of ESL teaching materials here.

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November 13, 2019 5:50 AM
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AI Experiments | Experiments with Google

AI Experiments | Experiments with Google | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

AI Experiments is a showcase for simple experiments that make it easier for anyone to start exploring machine learning, through pictures, drawings, language, music, and more.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A great collection of examples of how AI can be applied to education.

Marco Bertolini's curator insight, December 7, 2019 6:20 AM

Do you want to experiment with some features of Artificial Intelligence?  Try it out with Google Experiment!

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ZapSplat - Download Free Sound Effects & Royalty Free Music

ZapSplat - Download Free Sound Effects & Royalty Free Music | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Over 55,000 free sound effects and royalty free music to download instantly for commercial and non-commercial use and all professionaly recorded.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Useful for creative projects.

Tina Jameson's curator insight, November 14, 2019 6:28 PM
A useful tool to share with students, to assist in creative presentations.  Also an opportunity to talk about the need to be 'licence' aware when using sound as well as text and images.
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November 11, 2019 6:09 AM
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Scrapp - Take back control of your bookmarks

Scrapp - Take back control of your bookmarks | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Scrapp is a lightweight, universal bookmark manager that helps you manage, maintain and read your bookmarks, wherever you are

Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks useful and user-friendly.

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November 4, 2019 5:33 AM
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Live interactive audience participation

Live interactive audience participation | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Poll Everywhere is the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue… conferences, concerts, classrooms, and company off-sites — anywhere with internet.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Useful tool that works with both PPT and Keynote.

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October 23, 2019 4:51 AM
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AI-driven experts in minutes. No coding required. – Embody Digital

AI-driven experts in minutes. No coding required. – Embody Digital | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Build your own avatar. Use a selfie or a picture of someone else to build and dress up your own avatar. Your avatar is branded as the person that you want them to be. You can add expressions, emotions and mood to your AI-driven character by tagging the answers.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A great project for students. They can even use a selfie as their avatar.

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