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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dexHive: building a community knowledge base

dexHive: building a community knowledge base | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Collaborative indexes on a variety of topics, tailored by your community.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Create your own knowledge base and get others to collaborate. This is a bit like a collaborative curation tool. Great.

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December 27, 2017 6:11 AM
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Makeroid App Builder

Makeroid App Builder | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

We love making this world better, that's why we founded Makeroid. To make things easier and accessible for everyon.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Interesting tool to get your students started making apps.

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December 26, 2017 5:42 AM
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MediaTag

MediaTag | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Tag anything: images, videos, webpages & files. Share publicly or privately.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A useful curation tool, especially if you want to collect specific points in videos.

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December 20, 2017 5:52 AM
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Introducing Appsperiments: Exploring the Potentials of Mobile Photography

Introducing Appsperiments: Exploring the Potentials of Mobile Photography | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Today, we're launching the first installment of a series of photography appsperiments: usable and useful mobile photography experiences built on experimental technology. Our "appsperimental" approach was inspired in part by Motion Stills, an app developed by researchers at Google that converts short videos into cinemagraphs and time lapses using experimental stabilization and rendering technologies.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Three interesting free apps from Google to enhance your phones photography potential.

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December 16, 2017 4:52 AM
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Kreator Tools

Kreator Tools | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

We're building a disruptive directory of tools that lets you learn & create virtually anything

Nik Peachey's insight:

This site is a searchable collection of tools for making digital assets. Anything from apps to websites and AI. Well worth bookmarking and supporting.

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December 15, 2017 7:00 AM
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Video lessons creation tool

Video lessons creation tool | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
If you're new here, it's best to browse the video quizzes in our library and see what an interactive video quiz is (it's simple: questions popping up during the video).

If you like them, you can make your own quiz from any Youtube or Vimeo video here on iSLCollective (Click here or on the Upload menu). It takes 5 minutes to learn to use the quiz maker, and about 0.5-1 hour to finish a quiz.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A huge collection of free video activities and a tool and tutorial to create your own.

Greg Quinlivan's curator insight, December 15, 2017 11:24 PM
Huge collection of video quizzes with a variety of question types and a variety of presentation styles. Well organised according to level, focus, etc. An excellent resource.
ducky58's curator insight, December 17, 2017 8:05 AM
Utilissimo strumento per creare video interattivi
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December 11, 2017 8:35 AM
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Free language exchange platform

Free language exchange platform | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Many people in the world are having online classes or language exchange through different communities to improve their conversation skills. With pengi meet you can have a private customized conference room to practice anytime and anywhere. Your participants can enter with just one click. No software to download or install.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A great way to develop your language skills.

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December 4, 2017 7:36 AM
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Remove Image Backgrounds Free & Fast - Background Burner

Remove Image Backgrounds Free & Fast - Background Burner | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Free online background remover to remove the background from any image or photo. The fastest way to remove backgrounds online.
Nik Peachey's insight:

useful tool for editing and changing backgrounds on an image.

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November 29, 2017 7:39 AM
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GoVenture World | Home

GoVenture World | Home | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Create and manage your own business in a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG). Select your career and business type. Compete and collaborate with other players around the world in the most authentic business game and entrepreneur training experience ever created.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is still in beta, but it looks like a fantastic gaming simulation for business and business Engish students.

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November 29, 2017 7:02 AM
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Get Students Researching Words and Phrases in a Digital Corpus

Get Students Researching Words and Phrases in a Digital Corpus | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
This is an amazing audio corpus that you and your students can use to study the lexical use of words and phrases as well as variations in pronunciation. Get students to find examples of language points and vocabulary they are studying and deduce meaning from context.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great free audio corpus.

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November 27, 2017 8:12 AM
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Online Reading Activities | ReadTheory

Online Reading Activities | ReadTheory | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Online reading activities for all levels.Improve your reading ability using this fun, interactive, educational tool in school or at home.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Fantastic tool for developing reading skills.

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November 25, 2017 7:00 AM
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Games | Games for Change

Games | Games for Change | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Founded in 2004, Games for Change empowers game creators and social innovators to drive real-world change using games that help people to learn, improve their communities, and contribute to make the world a better place.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This site has a great collection of educational games along with reviews and information about each game.

The Library Patch's curator insight, November 26, 2017 6:18 AM
Could be an addition to our Create Share Innovate room!
 
Lexical Leo's comment, January 30, 2018 4:23 PM
Some of them are really good. I've used a couple
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November 24, 2017 11:32 AM
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Poligraph - Find the Truth in Politics

Poligraph - Find the Truth in Politics | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
The Internet has enabled a variety of new ways for people to share news and opinions online, but has also lead to the proliferation of inaccurate information.

New tools are needed to cope with the amount of information shared today, especially in politics where personal ideologies, human biases, and external motivations affect how events are portrayed.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Interesting tool in the fight against fake news.

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December 28, 2017 6:52 AM
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Umovit - Create animations on mobile devices

Umovit - Create animations on mobile devices | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Create and share animated actions featuring you, your friends or anyone. Express feelings, joke with your friends or blow up your creativity in a new and unique way.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a great free mobile app for creating short animations for social media. Available for Android and iPhone.

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December 26, 2017 7:46 AM
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Where works starts - Tixio.io

Where works starts - Tixio.io | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Create boards for each of your projects, and share them with other members in your work groups. Tixio is a hub where every member have access to the same widgets. Hence; you can all share tasks, important dates and links with each other in real-time.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This tool enables you to create and share a vistual desktop in your browser. Great tool for managing online or blended classes.

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December 25, 2017 5:56 AM
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Free Screen Sharing and Online Meetings | Dead Simple Screen Sharing

Free Screen Sharing and Online Meetings | Dead Simple Screen Sharing | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Free and Open Source Screen Sharing and Audio Conferencing right from your browser for Online Meetings, Sales, Customer Support and Team Collaboration.
Nik Peachey's insight:

The free version can be used with groups of up to 10.

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December 18, 2017 6:08 AM
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eXeLearning.net Create Interactive eLearning

eXeLearning.net Create Interactive eLearning | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

eXeLearning is a free software tool under GPL-2New window that can be used to create educational interactive web contents. eXeLearning can generate interactive contents in XHTML or HTML5 format and it allows you to create easily navigable web pages including text, images, interactive activities, image galleries or multimedia clips. All the educational materials generated with eXeLearning can be exported in different digital formats, to be used independently or to integrate them into a LMS (Learning Management System) like Moodle.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a really useful free tool developed for education.

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December 16, 2017 4:43 AM
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Puzzle Creator

Puzzle Creator | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Looking for vocabulary or theme-specific word games? Or need a fun way to reinforce word recognition? Our free and easy-to-use interactive puzzle maker lets you custom create word games for your student or child.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Useful tool for creating games and puzzles.

ducky58's curator insight, December 17, 2017 8:05 AM
Altro utilissimo strumento per creare cruciverba
Ricard Garcia's curator insight, December 20, 2017 2:04 AM
Useful tool to create your own quizzes... or to ask your students to create their own!
Mayra.Loves.Books's curator insight, December 31, 2017 11:06 PM
Must try, then share!

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December 14, 2017 6:41 AM
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Stencyl: Make iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Mac, Flash and HTML5 Games without code

Stencyl: Make iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Mac, Flash and HTML5 Games without code | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Our drag-and-drop gameplay designer pays homage to the successful MIT Scratch project. We extend Scratch's simple block-snapping interface with new functionality and hundreds of ready-to-use blocks.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Great tool to get your students started at creating games.

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December 5, 2017 7:22 AM
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Learning Apps CREATOR | Gabriel's Seeds

Learning Apps CREATOR | Gabriel's Seeds | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Create your own learning apps and discover the fun and effective way for children to learn in a captivating atmosphere. Take your youngster's education to the next level!
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a really interesting tool for creating interactive learning for younger learners.

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December 1, 2017 7:07 AM
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Reclipped | Discover, Annotate, Save, Share and Collect interesting parts from videos

Reclipped | Discover, Annotate, Save, Share and Collect interesting parts from videos | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
ReClipped is the best way to discover, annotate, save, share and collect most interesting parts from videos, without the need to download anything. We support Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Coursera, TED, LinkedIn, Amazon PrimeVideos platforms and adding many more soon.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Another great tool for developing digital study skills.

Willem Kuypers's curator insight, December 3, 2017 11:57 AM
Effectivement, il y a des plus en plus d'outils pour les vidéos.
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November 29, 2017 7:33 AM
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TurboNote | Most efficient way to take & share time-stamped notes while watching online videos

TurboNote | Most efficient way to take & share time-stamped notes while watching online videos | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Take & share time-stamped video notes, bookmark online videos, TurboNote provide the most efficient solution for online video note taking!
Nik Peachey's insight:

Great tool for developing students' digital study skills and for use in flipped classrooms that depend on video input.

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November 28, 2017 7:32 AM
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New Presentation Software - Online Powerpoint Alternative - Niftio

New Presentation Software - Online Powerpoint Alternative - Niftio | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
New presentation software with rich templates and content library, wireless presenter, integrated audience response system and analytics, all-in-one place.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like an interesting alternative presentation software. Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org for this one.

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November 26, 2017 6:26 AM
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Fake It To Make It | Games for Change

Fake It To Make It | Games for Change | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Fake It To Make It is a simulation-style game where players take on the role of someone creating and distributing fake news for profit. Players learn how misinformation is created, spread, and emotionally targeted, and leave better prepared to be skeptical of misinformation that they encounter in the future.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Nice game for teaching students about fake news.

Claudia Andrade's curator insight, November 26, 2017 10:42 AM
Interesting game to identify fake news
Presenters's curator insight, November 26, 2017 3:38 PM
Fake It To Make It es un juego que, apostando por la terrible actualidad, logra crear un entorno educativo. El jugador tiene que crear y difundir noticias para obtener beneficios, pasando por las etapas de creación, localización de un objetivo emocional, difusión... En definitiva, es un título que prepara al que lo termina para un futuro de escepticismo con las informaciones que reciba.
Ricard Garcia's curator insight, November 27, 2017 4:37 AM
Maybe a bit complex, but useful with young adults!!
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November 25, 2017 6:11 AM
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StoriumEdu

StoriumEdu | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Storium helps students develop their skills as writers and storytellers. In beta testing now!
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks worth registering with.

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