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I’ve always believed that they could add a really valuable dimension to online learning and help students to overcome the sense of isolation that often leads students to lose motivation and drop out of online courses. 
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No more paying for worksheets. Enjoy exercises from over 200+ topics in Math and English, aligned with kindergarten to grade 8 curriculum standards.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Potentially interesting free mobile appfor kids.
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Daydream is a platform for high quality mobile virtual reality, coming in Fall 2016.
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Google is preparing the next generation of Cardboard. Looks exciting.
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From
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Our mission is to give you the finest tools to achieve career success. We believe in empowering savvy job seekers with the latest advances in AI and machine learning technology. Our free resume grader is trusted by millions of users.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Useful tool for you or your students to evaluate CVs.
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Movie Lesson Plans Based on Films that will Inspire and Motivate Students; 425+ Movie Lesson Plans for High School, Middle School, Elementary and Home School
Nik Peachey's insight:
Useful site for teaching CLIL or a wide range of subjects.
Ricard Garcia's curator insight,
May 25, 2016 2:18 AM
Extremely useful stuff! Do not miss it. Lots of things to engage our pupils!
Barbara Goebel's curator insight,
May 28, 2016 6:27 PM
Free, densely-packed lesson plans using video clips from popular Hollywood features and science documentaries.
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Roundme is a simple and beautiful online app that allows you to create, share and explore Spaces.
Nik Peachey's insight:
You can find some great 360 tours from place all over the world. There are also free apps to help you create your own. Bring the world into your classroom.
Emma McPherson's curator insight,
May 19, 2016 8:18 AM
This site provides interactive tours of a range of places and sites, from historical locations, national parks, beautiful buildings and museums, to the explorations of Curiosity on Mars. This could prove a phenomenal resource in a range of classes by enabling students to experience a remarkable variety of locations, virtually.
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Our mission is to develop the next generation model of education, revolutionizing the way we teach and learn. The GameDesk approach is founded upon the principle that kids should be empowered to learn both cognitively and interpersonally by interacting, playing, and making. A defining principle, that all of our work shares, is that learning and fun are not mutually exclusive.
Nik Peachey's insight:
A really nice and growing collection of educational games that look genuinely engaging. Mixture of free and paid.
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Adaptive web & mobile learning for students, teachers, and businesses
Nik Peachey's insight:
Personally I've never put much faith in flashcards and associate them more with rote learning, but this site makes a lot of claims for its product so ...
Ruby Rennie Panter's curator insight,
May 12, 2016 4:09 AM
Flashcards are very popular, although our current understanding of how learning happens shows that they have limited use. However, they could be helpful as part of a larger learning experience. Many learners have a lot of faith in being able to memorise things by using flashcards, so if it builds their confidence in some way there could also be value in that
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Kinems is a game-based pesonalised learning method for children with multiple learning disabilities. Children interact with the learning games naturally with hand and body gestures (without mouse and keyboard). This natural way of interaction in a computer-based gaming environment increases children’s attention, motivation, pleasure and skills’ level.
Nik Peachey's insight:
A really interesting use of game based learning.
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Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and Web sites.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Lots of great interactive content here for your students.
elearning at eCampus ULg's curator insight,
April 26, 2016 8:03 AM
Anything with Prince on the cover is worth sharing ;-)
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Wonder is for everyone. It can happen anywhere and at anytime. Connecting the learning we do in our schools, our homes, and our communities, Wonderopolis walks the line between formal and informal education. Each day, we pose an intriguing question and explore it in a variety of ways. Our approach both informs and encourages new questions, sparking new paths of wonder and discovery in family and classroom settings.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Wonderful site full of interesting content with lots of built-in language support.
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Let’s be honest—flashy, colorful, unique apps will hook your students, but not usually for long. Is this emphasis (or overemphasis) on apps the right way for students to experience learning? Will their attention hold in the long-term?
Nik Peachey's insight:
Interesting checklist.
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Watchkin lets you watch youtube videos without all the distractions of related videos and comments, and creates a safer viewing environment for families.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Good tool for showing YouTube videos in kids classes.
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Tons of awesome courses in one awesome channel: Hank Green teaches you Anatomy & Physiology; Phil Plait teaches you Astronomy; Craig Benzine teaches you U.S. Government and Politics; Adriene Hill and Jacob Clifford teach you Economics.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a great video channel on YouTube that has loads of short animated and entertaining videos about a wide range of topics. Great for exploiting as learning content in online courses.
elearning at eCampus ULg's curator insight,
May 31, 2016 4:26 AM
Nice resources for any one who needs crash courses :-)
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Turn your ideas into impactful social graphics, web stories, and animated videos - in minutes.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great collection of free apps and tools for creating web content. Great for student projects.
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Share, watch, and talk about videos that are synced to the second. What are you waiting for? Get started watching perfectly synced videos with your friends!
Nik Peachey's insight:
A handy tool for online teachers. This enables you to watch a video that is synced with your students.
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More than a million free vectors, PSD, photos and free icons. Exclusive freebies and all graphic resources that you need for your projects
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great images for learning materials or student projects.
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theLearnia helps teachers to flip their classroom by creating awesome video lessons within minutes and share with their students
Nik Peachey's insight:
A free tool for creating animated presentation videos. A bit annoting that you have to sign in using Google, Twitter or Facebook accounts.
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Knowledge Guru® uses game-based learning, learning science and micro-learning to increase knowledge retention and improve performance. Learners play Knowledge Guru games on a smartphone, tablet or desktop while trainers use analytics to track results and find performance gaps.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Another gamified flashcard app.
Viljenka Savli (http://www2.arnes.si/~sopvsavl/)'s curator insight,
May 18, 2016 3:42 AM
Well structured and userfriendly approach. This kind of learing would be great also for language learning Well structured and userfriendly approach. Would be great to have something similar also for language learning.. 2
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The First ever Online Gaming Platform for Education in the World!
Nik Peachey's insight:
They are making some pretty big claims and don't say how much it will cost after the free trail, but this may be worth checking out.
Ramon Pavia's curator insight,
May 12, 2016 2:15 AM
Plataforma per treballar a través de la gamificació Plataforma per treballar a través de la gamificació
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Worlds largest collection of Geo located Drone videos. See Amazing sights & sounds from intresting places all over the world. Drone Pilots all over the world are welcome to share thier creations
Nik Peachey's insight:
A great collection of drone videos from all over the world. Great materials for discussion classes.
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inklewriter is a free tool designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories. It’s perfect for writers who want to try out interactivity, but also for teachers and students looking to mix computer skills and creative writing.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great idea for collaborative writing. People can add branches to other people's main narrative and develop stories in different directions.
elearning at eCampus ULg's curator insight,
May 2, 2016 3:35 AM
A nice application to try in a stand-alone mode
Richard Whiteside's curator insight,
May 30, 2016 6:01 AM
Looks like a useful tool for collaborative writing.
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Pathbrite is the easiest way for people to showcase their abilities and achievements via beautiful and compelling Portfolios. Show your body of work. Show what you know with Pathbrite.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Beautiful eportfolio tool. Great for showcasing students work and digital projects.
Ricard Garcia's curator insight,
April 26, 2016 2:09 AM
Nice layout... easy to use and extremely useful for university students... or teachers. A showcase for our ideas, abilities and reflections
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Ezvid is exceptional because of the power of its cutting-edge effects and features. With voice recording, facecam, voice synthesis, screen drawing, and speed control, Ezvid the world's single best solution for making videos which entertain, inform, and enchant your viewers.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Looks worth a free download if you need a versatile screen recorder.
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight,
April 27, 2016 7:08 PM
L Looks like a pretty versatile program. It's free! 
vgpascal's curator insight,
April 28, 2016 4:09 AM
Testé et approuvé si vous avez un compte Youtube ! La solution propose de multiples avantages :
Les + + capture d'écran animés + banc de montage facile à prendre en main + ajouts de textes + ajout d'un filigrane de personnalisation + accès à une banque de musique de fond (issue de la bibliothèque ou la vôtre) + synchronisation de la voix + incrustation de la webcam possible + mixage d'images et de vidéos existantes + durée jusqu'à 45 minutes + ajout d'éléments pour le guidage d'attention (dessin, flèches...) Les - - exports Youtube seulement - compatible uniquement avec Windows - le système stocke les fichiers qui composent votre vidéo (différentes séquences) dans le dossier username/my documents/ezvid/projects - seule la version montée sera exportable sur Youtube... il ne manque plus qu'à la récupérer par des moyens tiers depuis Youtube ;-)
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Our lesson plans refresh themselves with new stories, questions and quizzes posted everyday. Each also includes links to the Common Core standards
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a great resource for teaching teens and includes quizzes and lesson plans.
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A great tool for creating your own 3D classroom.