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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Engage Educational Virtual Reality Platform | Immersive VR Education

Engage Educational Virtual Reality Platform | Immersive VR Education | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
ENGAGE is a free to use education and presentation platform that seeks to transform how people share ideas and teach lessons to each other globally by harnessing the power of virtual reality technologies such as the Oculus Rift & HTC Vive.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Download it and give it a try.

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What’s Going On in This Picture - The Learning Network

What’s Going On in This Picture - The Learning Network | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
We are excited to begin our fifth year of What’s Going On in This Picture?, and we are thrilled that it continues to be one of the most popular features we offer. Teachers tell us they use it for everything from helping students strengthen their skills in finding evidence to encouraging English language-learning students to practice speaking aloud.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Great series of image based materials for discussion and writing.

Ricard Garcia's curator insight, September 22, 2016 3:10 AM
Always a nice activity... make students look and analyse!
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September 7, 2016 12:51 AM
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Brainstorming and polling with AnswerGarden

Brainstorming and polling with AnswerGarden | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
AnswerGarden is a very simple tool for creating short answer polls and displaying the answers as word clouds. It’s really simple and quick to use and can be used in the classroom or embedded into webpages, blogs or in online courses.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great tool for brainstorming vocabulary or creating quick polls in the classroom. Creates word clouds that you can export to Wordle.

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August 31, 2016 12:31 AM
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UNESCO Office in Bangkok: Directory of Free Educational Resources for Teachers

UNESCO Office in Bangkok: Directory of Free Educational Resources for Teachers | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
“Directory of Free Educational Resources for Teachers: Classroom Productivity” is a collection of free quality software which is ready to be installed directly onto your computer. It includes a collated set of freely available productivity tools, such as content authoring software, mind-mapping software, graphic editors, office suite among many others.
Nik Peachey's curator insight, August 31, 2016 12:30 AM

Some very big files to download but sounds very useful.

Wilko Dijkhuis's curator insight, August 31, 2016 2:49 AM
een lijst met tools
elearning at eCampus ULg's curator insight, August 31, 2016 3:33 AM
A complete and interesting directory for teachers !
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August 29, 2016 1:24 AM
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Dictation - Online Speech Recognition

Dictation - Online Speech Recognition | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Dictation is a free online speech recognition software that will help you write emails, documents and essays using your voice narration and without typing.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Handy tool to get students developing their speaking skills.

Carolyn Quarterman's curator insight, August 29, 2016 12:09 PM
Allows you to dictate online. Does pretty well with Speech Recognition. Maybe students could use for speaking practice? Could be one form of feedback on their pronunciation, or could help them get their ideas down quickly when brainstorming?
Charlie Dare's curator insight, August 30, 2016 2:14 PM
Could speed up office work and improve ones diction ~
Mark A J Ellis's curator insight, September 1, 2016 5:09 AM
trying this out and going well so far
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Zooniverse

Zooniverse | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.
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A really interesting site that allows people to get involved in and help with research of various kinds.

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Welcome to Locly

Welcome to Locly | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Locly is being used across the world to let students explore the spaces around them and discover digital content with their iPads.
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Interesting application for creating situated learning using augmented reality.

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August 17, 2016 12:33 AM
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Allo and Duo: new apps for smart messaging and video calling

Allo and Duo: new apps for smart messaging and video calling | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Duo is a simple, fast one-to-one video calling app for everyone—whether you’re on Android or iOS, a fast or slow connection, in New York or New Delhi. Like Allo, Duo is based on your phone number, allowing you to reach anyone in your phonebook. And its simple interface fades away when you’re in a call, so it’s just the two of you.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Duo looks like a very interesting and simple to use video communication tool.

Ari Yablok's curator insight, August 17, 2016 6:58 AM

Why it matters to you:

- these new communication apps by Google will soon replace Google Hangouts entirely, although some say Hangouts will become an enterprise service as a result

 

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Teachable: Create and Sell Your Own Online Courses

Teachable: Create and Sell Your Own Online Courses | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Teachable gives 10,000+ course creators everything they need to build engaging and profitable online courses. Try us out, we're free to use.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great free platform for creating your own online courses. Using the free plan you still have access to all features of the platform, but pay 10% on any courses that you sell.

Amin Neghavati's curator insight, August 14, 2016 7:46 AM
Create your own online courses
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight, August 16, 2016 5:40 PM
Free to try. I'd want to make sure my course was something that wasn't readily available on free platforms before putting in time and energy, though. 
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Ludwig - Find your sentence

Ludwig - Find your sentence | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Ludwig is a smart translator and linguistic search engine which helps you to find the perfect word or sentence to express your ideas

Nik Peachey's insight:

Interesting tool for exploring language.

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Personalized Learning Plan

Personalized Learning Plan | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Personalized learning puts each student at the center of their own learning. Teachers are empowered to customize instruction to meet their students' individual needs and interests. Students are empowered to become self-directed learners and develop the habits, mindsets and behaviors that lead to academic and personal success.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A platform for teachers and students. Developed by Facebook.

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PingPong - SPOT Networking

PingPong - SPOT Networking | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Instant classroom response tool.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Deceptively easy to use classroom response tool. Just select the type of response you want and get students to your online class using a simple code.

Character Minutes's curator insight, August 5, 2016 11:40 AM
Get student responses. Appears to be a free app.

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Phraseum - language learning online

Phraseum - language learning online | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
A web clipping app for language learning. Discover, clip, organize and remember useful foreign language phrases and collocations while browsing the web.
Nik Peachey's insight:

A great tool for learning lexical chunks from around the web.

Carolyn Quarterman's curator insight, August 3, 2016 1:08 PM
Looks potentially useful for collecting and  learning phrases, idioms, etc. but haven't played with yet.
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HelloTalk Language Exchange App

HelloTalk Language Exchange App | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Finally, learning and practicing a new language is easier and more intuitive than ever. Introducing HelloTalk for iOS and Android, the language app where your teachers are native language speakers from around the world.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Great app for language practice.

Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight, September 20, 2016 12:49 PM
This looks pretty interesting.
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Free School - YouTube

FreeSchool is a safe and friendly place to expose children to famous art, classical music, children's literature, and natural science in an age-appropriate and kid-accessible way.

Nik Peachey's insight:

A huge collection of short videos. Great content for classroom or online learning.

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A Tool for Helping Students Develop More Complex Sentences

A Tool for Helping Students Develop More Complex Sentences | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

A couple of years ago I wrote an activity for students called Extending a Sentence which used a Flash animated website to show how a simple sentence could be elaborated to become rich in detail.

Nik Peachey's insight:

The blog article includes some suggestions for classroom activities.

Carolina Velásquez's curator insight, September 11, 2016 3:53 PM
This tool could be useful If we want to create activities by using tecnological pages and improving writting skills. Also, students can use creativity to enhance their learning process.
polyyking's curator insight, December 8, 2016 6:29 AM
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3D Models and 3D Software by Daz 3D

3D Models and 3D Software by Daz 3D | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

The Genesis 3 technology combines the versatility and power of our revolutionary Genesis architecture with an extensive list of new features and enhancements. Genesis 3 provides superior control, articulation, movement, gender specific sculpting and HD Morphing technology. Genesis 3 empowers creators with an unprecedented level of customization and detail. It’s no wonder that Genesis 3 technology has quickly become the new standard in 3D human modeling.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Get your students creating 3D models using this free software.

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Stop Motion Studio - Creativity at your fingertips.

Stop Motion Studio - Creativity at your fingertips. | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Want to create movies like Wallace and Gromit or those groovy Lego shorts on YouTube? 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, it's deceptively powerful, and it's tremendous fun."
Nik Peachey's insight:

Available across mobile and desktop platforms. This looks like great fun. Must try it.

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August 20, 2016 3:09 AM
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Turn Your Instagram Pictures into a Virtual Museum

Turn Your Instagram Pictures into a Virtual Museum | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Turn your Instagram pictures into a virtual museum in one click. Walk into your photo gallery in VR.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Students can use this to create a VR space to view images from any public instagram account.

Brian's curator insight, September 12, 2017 12:50 PM
Can't wait to try this
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My.com Launches World’s First Neural Network-Powered App to Process Videos

My.com Launches World’s First Neural Network-Powered App to Process Videos | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Welcome to our Press Room! Here you’ll find everything about My.com: company overview, latest news, contact info, image library and current openings
Nik Peachey's insight:

Interesting video tool to give videos art style looks.

helmetmuster's comment, August 17, 2016 5:28 AM
Great
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YouTube Kids App

YouTube Kids App | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
YouTube Kids gives your family an easy way to watch their favorite shows, or explore anything that captures their imagination. It’s free, simple to use, and full of family-friendly videos.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Useful free app for using video with younger learners.

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August 12, 2016 10:19 AM
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Start your Website, with Bookmark’s Website Builder

Start your Website, with Bookmark’s Website Builder | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
Make your mark online with Bookmark's powerful yet simple website builder and e-learning platform.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Good free stylish website creator.

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August 11, 2016 5:07 AM
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Digital Classrooms – VideoNotes

Digital Classrooms – VideoNotes | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
VideoNot.es is a great tool for building your students’ digital literacies and their abilities to use video to study online. It enables students to take time stamped notes while they watch video content and save them alongside the video file.
Nik Peachey's insight:

Download the ebooklet and tutorial video for free.

António Leça Domingues's curator insight, August 11, 2016 5:11 AM
Um potenciador da digitalização da sala de aula.
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Find opposite or similar words at WordHippo!

Find opposite or similar words at WordHippo! | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Find opposite or similar words and a whole lot more at WordHippo!

Nik Peachey's insight:

Great tool for developing vocabulary. Can also find pronunciations, word families and lots more.

Lilydale High School's curator insight, August 8, 2016 5:26 PM
More than an online dictionary - pronunciations too.
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Comparing Texts to Aid Noticing

Comparing Texts to Aid Noticing | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it
QuickDiff is an interesting tool that analyses differences in two very similar texts. It was actually developed for examining programming code, but could be a really useful tool to use with students to get them to look more closely at the texts they write and notice the mistakes and corrections and differences in the text.
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great tool to encourage students to pay more attention to written corrections.