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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Writing Sparks

Writing Sparks | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Writing Sparks was created by the award winning developers of nightzookeeper.com. Watch this short video to find out how Night Zookeeper can automatically assess your student’s writing and raise attainment in your classroom.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A great tool to prompt and help students structure writing. Ideal for younger learners.

Viljenka Savli (http://www2.arnes.si/~sopvsavl/)'s curator insight, August 16, 2017 4:10 AM
for younger and older students - writing 
 
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Get Students Creating Video Summaries with Lumen5

Get Students Creating Video Summaries with Lumen5 | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Once you’ve structured the text, the site will automatically find images and clips to go with each section of the text.

You can then edit these manually or add your own images then choose which part of the text to highlight. Once you have the look and feel of the video right, you just select music and add your branding.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A short blog post on creating video summaries.

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Fake News Game Factitious

Fake News Game Factitious | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

The American University Game Lab serves as a hub for experiential education, persuasive play research, and innovative production in the fields of games for change and purposeful play.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A useful game about fact checking news articles.

Viljenka Savli (http://www2.arnes.si/~sopvsavl/)'s curator insight, August 17, 2017 2:35 AM
fake news game
 
Chrissy Z's curator insight, August 30, 2017 4:13 PM

A useful tool and game for students to fact check news articles. Digital Citizenship compliant- let's teach students how to spot fake news.

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3D avatar chat animated emoji – Embody Digital

3D avatar chat animated emoji – Embody Digital | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Introducing 3D Avatar Chat: the app that allows you to communicate with the bandwidth of a face-to-face conversation.

Far beyond what is possible with emoticons, emojis, stickers or static images. Our app allows you to communicate with nuance and tone.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Looks like an interesting concept. Spotted this on: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/

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Yarn - Chat Fiction on the App Store

Yarn - Chat Fiction on the App Store | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Yarn - Chat Fiction. Download Yarn - Chat Fiction and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Interesting app for creating and reading 'text' format short narrative.

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Word Generator

Word Generator | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Use this word generator for games like pictionary, catchphrase, and charades. Just select a game and category and click New Word.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a useful random word or phrase generator for classroom games.

Francisco González's comment, July 27, 2017 5:36 AM
It is also great for ESL teachers. Thanks Nik!
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11 Quick & Amazing Ways to Use PowToon in Your Classroom

11 Quick & Amazing Ways to Use PowToon in Your Classroom | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Classroom learning can be AWESOME! Check out these 11 killer tips for quick and amazing ways to use PowToon in your classroom.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Some nice examples and templates for using PowToon with students.

Ashley Mendez Martinez's curator insight, February 4, 2024 5:27 PM

PowToon is another presentation tool to create videos that are made for your students' target objectives. It already provides different presentation themes that are fun to watch. This platform is known to be the common content videos on YouTube along with Prezi and Animaker. The animation of the presentation is what make the content fun and engaging. 

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PowToon - Brings Awesomeness to Your Presentations

PowToon - Brings Awesomeness to Your Presentations | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Slides features beautiful, modern templates and dazzling designs, with a dash of PowToon’s quirky, animatedly entertaining style. You can also fully customize your #Slides presentation within the PowToon Studio.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A nice free tool for creating presentations. Good for younger learners.

Jeff Domansky's curator insight, July 24, 2017 1:20 PM

Powtoon is a basic video tool that can be useful for marketing and PR depending on the topic and market.

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Blocks: Easily Create 3D Objects in VR

Blocks: Easily Create 3D Objects in VR | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Blocks is a new app that lets you create 3D objects in VR in a more intuitive, fast and fun way - and it’s available today for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Looks like great fun. Must try this.

Kim Flintoff's curator insight, December 1, 2017 4:54 PM
Blocks is a new app that lets you create 3D objects in VR in a more intuitive, fast and fun way - and it’s available today for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
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Glide - Live Video Messaging

Glide - Live Video Messaging | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Send lightning fast video messages, see responses live or whenever it's convenient. Get closer to the ones you love with video communication.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Useful video communication tool. Send instant video messages.

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Introducing Toontastic 3D: a playful storytelling app for kids

Introducing Toontastic 3D: a playful storytelling app for kids | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Starting today, parents and teachers all over the world can download Toontastic 3D, a playful storytelling app for kids to draw, animate and narrate their own 3D cartoons.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A great free app for getting students to create 3D stories.

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Create virtual reality videos

Create virtual reality videos | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Create a video in Sharalike in just a few seconds and watch it immediately in your virtual reality headset. You can change/add photos, select your theme, add your own music or choose a music from Spotify, and personalize your slideshow to fit your needs.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A nice VR app for creating student projects.

Concepción Fernández's curator insight, July 6, 2017 3:45 PM
@acanelma mira esto, interesante #vr voy a probar ;)
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binumi.com

binumi.com | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Binumi is all you need to create and share videos using millions of royalty-free multimedia clips. Our vision is a world where anyone can easily tell video stories through digital storytelling.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a great free tool for creating video for projects. Lots of royalty free images and video clips.

Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight, July 5, 2017 11:46 AM
Looks interesting. 
 
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Sansar | Official Site - The world's leading social virtual reality platform

Sansar | Official Site - The world's leading social virtual reality platform | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Create, share, and sell your own virtual reality experiences for free with Sansar, the world's leading social VR platform.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Exciting stuff. Shame there's no Mac version.

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Kudoswall - ePortfolio Tool

Kudoswall - ePortfolio Tool | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
KudosWall stores your portfolio securely in the cloud, so you can access it anywhere. Snapped a photo of an award ceremony and don’t want to lose it? Upload it right away. Have a teenager who wants to write up a scholarship application from a coffee shop? No problem. And what’s more, unlike a dark corner in the basement, your memories are safe from wear, tear, or loss.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is an interesting eportfolio tool aimed at parets.

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Collaborative Learning Platform for Teachers

Collaborative Learning Platform for Teachers | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Kiddom is the easiest way to plan, assess, and analyze learning. With Kiddom, teachers use one collaborative learning platform for assessment, curriculum development, messaging, and reports.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Great learning platform.

Juan Camilo Largo's curator insight, September 1, 2017 12:45 PM
Kiddom is a website recommended by Nik Peachey for several reasons. First, it enhances the planning and performance of classes by putting all your materials in the same place, which works similar to a cloud. It also allows you to create a class environment online. Therefore, you are able to adjust the setting for the class you want to create and adapt it to the courses you will add to the platform. It has the option to select the subject, grade, and students when you are creating the class. In addition to it, Kiddom offers you the possibility to analize your students' learning process through easy diagrams and statistics. Those are some of the great features that we can take advantage of when using Kiddom.
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Tap by Wattpad - Addictive Chat Stories

Tap by Wattpad - Addictive Chat Stories | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Read addictive chat stories for free with Tap by Wattpad. Dive into interactive, heart-pounding stories that drop you right into the action, as if you're reading someone else's texts or create your own. Download the app for iOS and Android!

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great way to get students reading or doing creative writing.

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Lesson & Activity Management, Planning & Access – MyLAMPA

Lesson & Activity Management, Planning & Access – MyLAMPA | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
MyLAMPA is a platform for language teachers and schools. It is the evolution of the learning management system developed developed by language teachers and it helps to support other worthy education initiatives around the world as well!
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great tool and resource for language teachers.

Claudia Cardona Naranjo's curator insight, September 7, 2017 11:50 AM
This is a great tools for us as Teaching English students since it allows us to plan our lessons, to share information with others, to do peer coaching, and to have organized our schedule. It is very useful having in mind that we are not only students, but also workers and parents.  
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Word Booster

Word Booster | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

It gives you a list of words you are likely to look up in the dictionary as far as the given text is concerned, guesses a good dictionary definition for the words along with example sentences. And finally, it also makes a quiz for the words using both the definitions and example sentences. (Of course we give you the answer key too.)

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great free tool for creating word lists and vocabulary quizzes from online text. It works within minutes. A great time saver.

Byungin Kim's comment, July 22, 2017 11:32 AM
Hello Nik! I am Andrew, the creator of Word Booster. Thanks for writing about us! We are holding a webinar on Sept. 8th of 2017 at 10:30 GMT, and you could hear the journey of how we have developed Word Booster. (https://forum.oxforddictionaries.com/api/discussion/78/webinar-word-booster-the-making-of-of-the-oxford-dictionaries-api-competition-winner#latest) We won the first prize at Oxford Dictionaries API Contest 2017.
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Amazon Inspire: Educational resources for teachers, created by teachers

Amazon Inspire: Educational resources for teachers, created by teachers | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Upload and share curriculum resources that you’ve created with educators everywhere, and help us grow our library of digital educational resources from teachers, school districts, open educational resource (OER) providers, and publishers from across the country.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Interesting to see Amazon getting in on this act.

Michael Paul's curator insight, May 21, 2024 10:25 PM

Having a space for educators to share resources is paramount for continuous improvement. Without continuous improvement, students will not find as much success.

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Fotostars - online photo editor

Fotostars - online photo editor | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Fotostars is a free online photo editor that includes over 50 photo effects that will add a unique style and character to every one of your photographs. To use the online photo effects, just choose the effect you like from the list. You will see results and your photo’s transformation right away.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A useful and easy to use free online image editor.

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Public Domain ~ Free Media for Creative Projects | Pond5

Public Domain ~ Free Media for Creative Projects | Pond5 | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Download thousands of media files including stock footage, images, songs, and more for FREE from Pond5's Public Domain Project.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Lots of useful free media for student projects.

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Educational Technology & ELT Newsletter by Nik Peachey

Educational Technology & ELT Newsletter by Nik Peachey | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Sign up for my free newsletter and get a free copy of Digital Tools for Teachers
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Daniela Jimenez's curator insight, August 15, 2017 6:05 PM

Young people live their lives through technology; however, it might be an  essential source for education where we could take advantage over its resources and engage students into the use of technologies as a tool for their own learning process. There is great value in incorporating new technologies not as a bolt on or reward, but as an integral part of the process. This allows teachers to have more interesting and productive classes where will be noticiable the enhancement of learners in communication, creativity, collaboration and critical thinking. ICT lets learners easily draw on authentic resources that promote inter-cultural understanding and interact with virtual peers in real non-fabricated contexts. Technology can be used as an independent learning where teachers can help students to work at their own pace, complete interactive exercises, and receive immediate feedback. Besides, students can be able to compare their scores with their classmates being an element of engaging gamification to their learning.

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Pear Deck

Pear Deck | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
With Pear Deck, bring interactive, engaging slide presentations to your classroom. Real-time formative assessments and discussions enhance understanding and empower your students’ learning process.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Interesting tool for projecting your presentation onto the students' devices and making the slides interactive. The free version can be found at: https://www.peardeck.com/pricing/comparison/

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Spiral - The fastest way to carry out formative assessments.

Spiral - The fastest way to carry out formative assessments. | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

The fastest way to carry out formative assessments. Spiral transforms any classroom into an interactive learning space. No apps to install. No download required.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A useful free tool for the classroom.

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