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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ClassroomScreen

ClassroomScreen | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Quickly get a timer, textbox, noise meter, drawing tool, name picker, work symbols and more. Completely free.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a beautiful free interactive whiteboard screen you can simply open and use in your browser.

Greg Quinlivan's curator insight, November 29, 2018 8:59 PM
Nice, intuitive tool. Will be useful for online teaching as much as for classroom settings.
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November 28, 2018 10:45 AM
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StoryWeaver - Stories in multiple languages

StoryWeaver - Stories in multiple languages | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Reading is one of the most essential components of a child's learning & development journey. At Pratham Books and StoryWeaver, we understand this and StoryWeaver came about with the exact purpose of increasing access to books for children in languages and context that they enjoy - in a boundary-less digital way.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a wonderful resource of great simple stories for kids in multiple languages. There is also an image bank and you can create your own stories on the site. Marvelous.

Vane García Aguilar's curator insight, November 28, 2018 12:05 PM

This is a wonderful resource of great simple stories for kids in multiple languages. There is also an image bank and you can create your own stories on the site. Marvelous.

Elise Ayoub's curator insight, December 1, 2018 3:39 AM
This tool allows you to create your own story with illustrations which you can pick from an image bank.You can also read and comment on the stories of others.Great constructive and collaborative as well as creativity enhancing tool that will restore children's love for reading. 
Aya Arab's curator insight, December 10, 2018 8:18 PM
more than 10000 stories in more than 120 languages in different English levels all in one place.
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November 27, 2018 7:43 AM
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Tangerine® is electronic data collection software designed for use on mobile computers

Tangerine® is electronic data collection software designed for use on mobile computers | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Tangerine® is electronic data collection software designed for use on mobile computers, including netbooks, tablet computers and smartphones. Its primary use is to enable capture of students’ responses in oral early grade reading and mathematics skills assessments, specifically Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) and Early Grade Mathematics Assessment (EGMA), and interview responses from students, teachers and principals on home and school context information.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks interesting.

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November 26, 2018 11:49 AM
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QR Droid Zapper | QR Code Generator

QR Droid Zapper | QR Code Generator | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
QR Droid will create a QR image with a short URL; just copy the URL (shown after you create a QR Code) into your browser or share it with friends, family and colleagues.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A useful QR code creator.

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November 21, 2018 1:23 PM
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Create, Curate and Collaborate on Lists

Create, Curate and Collaborate on Lists | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Lystof helps to discover curated links. Share a list of links with your friends or teammates. Recommend or ask the community about best links for a topic.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A useful tool for collaborative curation.

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November 12, 2018 4:36 AM
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Linguacuisine – Combining technology, languages, culture and cuisine

Linguacuisine – Combining technology, languages, culture and cuisine | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Linguacuisine is a really fun way to learn about foreign languages, cultures and cuisines and you get to eat what you produce. You can also tell other people around the world about your own cooking, language and way of life.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a really nice way to share and learn about languages and culture through food.

Valentina Hernández Hernández's curator insight, January 24, 2019 11:50 PM
The article presents a new App which is called Linguacuisine. It helps you learn a language while you are preparing a new meal. It tries to give learners an amazing experience that involves their 5 senses. I would like to try this App since cooking is one of my hobbies. It would be very interesting to learn new vocabulary, and improve my listening skill while I am discovering a new recipe. 
Angélica Osorio Castillo's curator insight, March 15, 2020 2:12 PM
This article shows an amazing App that allows you to cook while you are listening the instructions in someone's native language. This is a great opportunity for combining learning another language while doing something you like, and additional to that, this will allow you to know more about other culture through its food. Nowadays, we are seeing Apps, Games and Web Sites that allow to learn while having fun. 
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November 11, 2018 5:10 AM
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Create Interactive Learning with Adapt Learning

Create Interactive Learning with Adapt Learning | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Adapt is a free and easy to use e-learning authoring tool that creates fully responsive, multi-device, HTML5 e-learning content using the award-winning Adapt developer framework.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a really useful tool if you want to get serious about course development.

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November 5, 2018 6:49 AM
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Hubert.ai - Improvement starts with conversations

Hubert.ai - Improvement starts with conversations | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Tired of manually going through the evaluations of your courses to get an aggregated result overview? In a near future Hubert will take care of all your result aggregation! It will be possible to set up the structure for a whole institution, program or university and have Hubert aggregating the results for you.

Nik Peachey's insight:

An interesting way of using an AI chatbot to get feedback on your courses and teaching.

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November 2, 2018 8:27 AM
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Hypersay - Deliver presentations they will never forget

Hypersay - Deliver presentations they will never forget | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Platform for interactive presentations that massively increase audience engagement. Delight your students, attendees & clients with polls, questions, live slide sharing.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great tool for teachers who like to use presentations and want to push them to students devices and make them interactive.

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October 30, 2018 12:46 PM
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Thunkable.com: Drag and Drop Mobile App Builder for iOS and Android

Thunkable.com: Drag and Drop Mobile App Builder for iOS and Android | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Thunkable is the platform where anyone can build their own mobile apps. Available for iOS and Android.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is an interesting tool for creating mobile apps for free. It could still do with some improvements, but much easier to learn than coding if you want some quick results.

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October 30, 2018 10:10 AM
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Wabisabi - Teaching Simplified, Learning Amplified

Wabisabi - Teaching Simplified, Learning Amplified | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Schools around the world use Wabisabi to provide real-time portfolio based evidence of learning, make assessment transparent, reporting a breeze, and to keep parents and learners in the loop. Put your learners in charge of their learning, and of their future. Connect your class to any class in the world to learn from, with, and about each other.

Nik Peachey's insight:

An interesting looking collaborative eportfolio tool.

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October 30, 2018 6:14 AM
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Educreations - Create Flipped Learning

Educreations - Create Flipped Learning | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Our software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web. Students can replay these lessons any time, any place, on any connected device.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great free iPad app for creating flipped learning style whiteboard videos.

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October 20, 2018 3:19 AM
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Introverts & Extroverts - Lessons in Digital Literacy

Introverts & Extroverts - Lessons in Digital Literacy | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
In this lesson, students will explore their views of what makes someone an introvert or extrovert. They will study an infographic which links the characteristics of each to different types of jobs and reflect on how the information applies to their ow
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is another redesigned plan that comes complete with digital Teacher and students versions as well as downloadable student worksheets. Ideal for delivery on digital devices. You can see the digital version here: https://bit.ly/2q1sqNq

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November 29, 2018 6:36 AM
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Education - LGBTQI

Education - LGBTQI | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Free ebook.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a really useful collection of resources and advice to help you deal with issues around discrimination and migration.

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November 27, 2018 1:16 PM
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Quillionz - World’s First AI Platform for Creating Questions

Quillionz - World’s First AI Platform for Creating Questions | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Don't spend your valuable time creating simple questions anymore. Explore the world’s first AI-powered platform for creating questions, assessments, and quizzes.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a handy tool for building quiz and assessment questions around any text. It does quite a good job, but the tests have to be saved or printed as text files.

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November 27, 2018 4:43 AM
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Morph ID - Build Your AR & VR Avatar

Morph ID - Build Your AR & VR Avatar | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Morph Avatars built with ReadyRoom® can travel between worlds. From a social VR experience, to a classroom, to a galactic battle. Your avatar and identity are persistent, unique, and yours.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is an interesting tool for building your own 3D virtual avatar that can be used across a range of VR and AR devices. Unfortunately it's only available for Windows users at present.

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November 23, 2018 4:37 AM
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Digital Zines | ZineLab

Digital Zines | ZineLab | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

ZineLab allows you to make a zine on the web, taking the DIY spirit from zine makers who build print zines. Include all kinds of different media from photo gallery, articles, video, icons and even customize colours and templates. You can save zines, comment and review them. They're also easy to make and share across the web.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks very early stage, but also looks like an attractive way to get students publishing project work.

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November 16, 2018 11:31 AM
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DrawnToTheCore.com - Teaching beyond the point, click, swipe

DrawnToTheCore.com - Teaching beyond the point, click, swipe | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
DrawnToTheCore.com is built of fun video guided lessons from DrawnToDiscover.com teaching children how to draw math, science, language arts, biology, engineering, geography, history, peace, and more. These interactive lessons provide explicit instruction that can be differentiated to connect lessons and activities in the classroom and help increase student understanding and engagement.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A great tool to get students drawing.

Elise Ayoub's curator insight, November 24, 2018 1:30 PM
This tool teaches young children to make drawings related to different subjects like math,science,language ...Check it out.
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November 11, 2018 7:23 AM
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Creative Video Community

Creative Video Community | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Freq is a community for creating threads of videos inspired by challenges and games.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This might be a nice tool for creating learning challenges.

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November 5, 2018 10:34 AM
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Dawn – Online Course Development Platform

Dawn – Online Course Development Platform | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Turn your unique content into a socially-engaging, video-centric learning experience that can be accessed anytime, anywhere, and with any major device.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks interesting for anyone who wants to build and generate income from courses.

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November 2, 2018 8:56 AM
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Home | Study3

Home | Study3 | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
The next generation of productivity software. Learn how to work more and do less with the power of artificial intelligence
Nik Peachey's insight:

If flashcards and spaced repitition do it for you, this could be a useful tool.

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November 2, 2018 6:34 AM
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BitPaper - Lobby

BitPaper - Lobby | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Built from the ground-up for speed, the app emphasizes speedy rendering with the minimal amount of pen lag.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A nicely designed virtual whiteboard for use on most devices.

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October 30, 2018 11:40 AM
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Habitica - Gamify Your Life

Habitica - Gamify Your Life | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Habitica is a free habit and productivity app that treats your real life like a game. Habitica can help you achieve your goals to become healthy and happy.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a useful free tool for gamifying your classroom.

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October 30, 2018 8:36 AM
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Choose your words wisely - Semantic Environment Canvas

Choose your words wisely - Semantic Environment Canvas | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Humans live in language. It defines what we do, how we do it, and why we do it. Language is the bedrock of our cultures and societies. As with fish in water, we go about our daily business without paying much attention to the language around us and how it influences us.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great activity to do with teachers or with hgher level learners in a business setting.

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October 24, 2018 5:33 AM
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TextingStory iPhone and Android App

TextingStory iPhone and Android App | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

TextingStory allows you to write conversations just like any messaging app, except you can switch side by swiping left or right over the message area. You can also press the characters' names.

Take all the time you need to write your conversations. The videos are automatically accelerated for a consistently fast-paced result!

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a useful tool for creating SMS text based narrative. Type in the text and export it as a video your students can watch. It runs on iOS or Android.

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