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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Replika - Your Virtual AI Friend

Replika - Your Virtual AI Friend | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Your Replika learns from you, matches your personality and becomes your best friend. Start growing your Replika today.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a really interesting concept for an app. You create your own virtual friend. There's quite a long queue at present so if you want to try it, sign up soon.

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September 8, 2017 12:39 PM
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Fog Stone Isle Game

Fog Stone Isle Game | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Each student is assigned a unique virtual world that allows them to use their own ideas and creativity while crafting their environment. For example, students are immersed in creating buildings, farm plots and corrals while adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions. The math is meaningful to the tasks they are doing. Work is done independently and/or collaboratively as students make sense of their ideas. They enthusiastically share their virtual worlds in class while explaining their thinking.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great 3D game to get students interacting collaborating and developing their language & maths skills while they build a virtual village.

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September 7, 2017 7:16 AM
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Lost on Babel | The Language RPG

Lost on Babel | The Language RPG | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

One thing that makes our game so different is that you play by talking. This is hard for people to imagine because the games they are accustomed to usually involve shooting zombies, cars that can jump, or blocks that disappear after changing colors. As we design this game and plan future additions, we have found that this conversation-based gameplay opens many, many possibilities. The types of adventures, the strategic mini-games, the storyline & side-plots, the depth & breadth of players’ social interactions… all of these aspects of our game have given us at WordUp Games plenty to work with.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a really interesting game to help develop languages.

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September 6, 2017 7:20 AM
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Connect and Learn Together ❘ PenPalSchools

Connect and Learn Together ❘ PenPalSchools | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
PenPal Schools connects students to learn together. PenPals collaborate through high-quality online projects to learn about cultures and global challenges while practicing language and technology skills.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a really great platform to get your students communicating across languages and cultures.

Mirabelle Issa's curator insight, December 2, 2018 7:34 AM
PenPalSchools is a global project-based learning community that allows students to connect and learn together.
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September 5, 2017 6:53 AM
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Taleship - Collaborative story writing app

Taleship - Collaborative story writing app | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Taleship is writing modernized and made fun. It gives you and your friends a blank canvas to write together. You take turns writing with another player, and eventually a story forms. It's that simple.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great free app that enables students to build up stories buy adding a sentence each.

Ricard Garcia's curator insight, September 8, 2017 2:57 AM
A good webtool to foster individual  and collaborative storytelling
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September 2, 2017 11:17 AM
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mysimpleshow - Create Explainer Videos For Learning!

mysimpleshow - Create Explainer Videos For Learning! | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
It has never been easier to create your own explainer video. mysimpleshow transforms any text into an animated video you will love.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great tool for creating animated video presentations.

Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight, September 8, 2017 11:11 AM
The free version is somewhat limited, but it seems worth a try.
 
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Remember More Words with this Free Dictionary & Vocabulary Reminder

VocabReminder is an iOS dictionary app that has been designed to help you revise and remember your new vocabulary.
When you find a word you want to learn, add it to your list of words by tapping on the bell icon next to each word.
The app will then setup a schedule of reminders to help you remember to check the meanings of the words you've chosen and give you a small test of your understanding of the word.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A useful free app for iOS users.

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September 1, 2017 7:50 AM
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SAS Gloss on the App Store

SAS Gloss on the App Store | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Gloss is designed to support a paperless workflow in the classroom. Open a new “canvas” and layer text, images, and drawings. Add a layer of gloss to photos or PDF documents – perfect for worksheets, tests and quizzes. Turn on graph paper for math class or create elaborate drawings and scenes to add to any creative project. Easily share SAS® Gloss masterpieces with teachers, family, or friends.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A useful free tool for iPad users.

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August 28, 2017 6:11 AM
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Playbuzz: Authoring Platform for Interactive Storytelling

Playbuzz: Authoring Platform for Interactive Storytelling | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Playbuzz is an authoring platform that empowers brands, publishers and content creators worldwide to create engaging editorial and commercial content via multiple interactive formats.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is an interesting tool for creating 'Buzzfeed' type media content. User can create quizzes and interactive stories with a range of embeded media types. Lots of ads on the site.

Chrissy Z's curator insight, August 30, 2017 4:20 PM

A tool for creating 'Buzzfeed' type media content. Users can create quizzes and interactive stories with a range of embedded media types. Lots of ads on the site, but fun to use regardless.

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August 25, 2017 10:56 AM
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Create Elearning Worksheets for Comprehension & Speaking Homework

Create Elearning Worksheets for Comprehension & Speaking Homework | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
This is a great site for building digital interactive worksheets with a whole range of different interactions. You can embed video, images, text or audio into the worksheets and then build a wide range of interactions into them.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A great tool for making interactive worksheets

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August 25, 2017 7:49 AM
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QuizBean | Quickly Create Online Quizzes For Free

QuizBean | Quickly Create Online Quizzes For Free | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
QuizBean is the easiest way to create and share online quizzes with your friends. It's totally free, so what are you waiting for? Make your first quiz!
Nik Peachey's insight:

Nice tool for making quizzes, polls and tests. You can easily embed video and images into the quiz questions.

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August 18, 2017 8:01 AM
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Build Your 3D Virtual Reality Classroom Today

Build Your 3D Virtual Reality Classroom Today | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Edorble is a fantastic tool for creating your own 3D virtual classroom. Just download the software and claim your room code. You can then share the code with your students and they can join you for virtual tutorials, social events or film and video viewings.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A great tool to get started with VR.

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August 14, 2017 8:53 AM
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TIME’s 100 Most Influential Images of All Time

TIME’s 100 Most Influential Images of All Time | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Explore the stories behind 100 images that changed the world, selected by TIME and an international team of curators. And watch our new series of original short documentaries that tell the surprising stories behind the pictures.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Fantastic and deeply moving classroom materials.

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September 8, 2017 12:47 PM
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Dashboard | Barnardo's Real Love Rocks

Dashboard | Barnardo's Real Love Rocks | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

A collection of free materials to help educate children about same sex relationships and gender and sexual identities.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a really useful resource with a collection of free materials to help teachers deal with what can be a very sensitive issue in the classroom.

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September 8, 2017 11:29 AM
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Zipnote: The notebook that helps new knowledge stick.

Zipnote: The notebook that helps new knowledge stick. | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
You probably already take notes when you learn. But often they lie forgotten for weeks or forever. Zipnote makes your notes useful by turning what you learn into reviewable Q&A cards.

Just take your notes in Zipnote! Use our easy, outline-based note format to add concepts, people, places and events you learn about.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a useful online notebook that builds I revision.

Miguel Paul Trijaud Calderón's curator insight, September 10, 2017 10:07 AM
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Gaby K. Slezák's curator insight, September 15, 2017 5:53 AM
interesting take on a notebook app - to turn your notes into Q&A cards so you'll actually train your brain with what you once deemed noteworthy. Nice idea.
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September 6, 2017 8:23 AM
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Discover projects

Discover projects | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Dreamdo Schools is the world’s leading project-based learning platform that encourages school classes around the world to do great student projects.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A platform for creating and sharing project work.

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September 5, 2017 8:27 AM
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OER Commons

OER Commons | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Open Author helps you build Open Educational Resources, lesson plans, and courses (on your own, or with others) — and then publish them, to the benefit of educators and learners everywhere. Select one of our authoring formats to get started:
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a great tool for building lessons and course from Open Educational Resources.

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September 4, 2017 9:03 AM
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Illustrate Poems & Create Short Image Based Narrative

The app seems to be particularly popular with teens and there’s a lot of teen type fiction on the themes of romance and or horror stories. Some of the themes can be a bit strong so it’s best to use this only with more mature students.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A really useful and creative free app.

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September 2, 2017 9:05 AM
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Research Paper Writing Platform with Complete Guidance | Author Path

Research Paper Writing Platform with Complete Guidance | Author Path | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Research paper writing platform offering writing guidance from start to finish, easily collaborate with co-authors, find and submit to the best journal.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like an interesting free service.

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September 1, 2017 8:37 AM
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A Tool to Encourage Students to Self-Correct & Improve their Writing

A Tool to Encourage Students to Self-Correct & Improve their Writing | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
This is a marvellous tool which I intend to start using myself. It doesn't do the work for the students like a grammar or spell-checker but it does push them to think about their writing at a more stylistic level.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a review of SAS Writing Reviser. Great to get your students improving their own writing.

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August 31, 2017 8:17 AM
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Awesome edits made easy. - Quik by GoPro

Quik by GoPro is the easiest way to create beautiful videos.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A very simple to use video editing app for iOS or Android.

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August 28, 2017 6:02 AM
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Free Music Archive

Free Music Archive | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A very useful resource for educational projects.

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August 25, 2017 8:51 AM
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Home - Cmap

Home - Cmap | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Cmap software is a result of research conducted at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC). It empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Free concept mapping software for Mac and PC. Must try this out.

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August 20, 2017 9:17 AM
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Stop Motion Studio on the App Store

Stop Motion Studio on the App Store | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Create beautiful stop motion animated movies anywhere instantly on your device. Everything you need is right at your fingertips. No computer needed. It's simple to use, deceptively powerful and insanely fun to play with. Create fantastic movies your friends will enjoy or share it with the world on YouTube, Facebook and other sites. Cool themes, titles and sound effects are easy to add, too.
Nik Peachey's insight:

The app is free, but there are some in-app purchases for a wider range of features.

Chrissy Z's curator insight, August 30, 2017 4:12 PM

I love this app because students can complete full projects on their phones. The app is free, but there are some in-app purchases for a wider range of features.

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August 16, 2017 1:51 PM
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Make Your Worksheets Digital in Minutes

Make Your Worksheets Digital in Minutes | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Telegra.ph is a simple to use tool that can enable you to turn your Word worksheets into online multimedia documents in just a few moments.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A blog post on how to use Telegra.ph.

Judih Weinstein Haggai's curator insight, August 17, 2017 5:02 AM
A fantastic tool, with thanks to Nik Peachey for scooping it! Convert your word based worksheets to digital docs.