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Tools for Teachers & Learners
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A collection of web and mobile based tools to help teachers and learners exploit digital resources
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Nik Peachey
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Nik Peachey's insight:
Great tool for creating interactive worksheets with embeded multimedia. 
Craig Van Ham's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 8:31 PM
Great tool for creating interactive worksheets with embeded multimedia. 
Jeroen Rougoor's curator insight,
March 29, 2016 2:10 AM
Great tool for creating interactive worksheets with embeded multimedia. 
Tessa van Zadelhoff's curator insight,
March 31, 2016 3:21 AM
Great tool for creating interactive worksheets with embeded multimedia.
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Beautiful, free videos for your homepage background
Nik Peachey's insight:
Some great free video clips. Lots of ways to use these in the classroom.
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
March 3, 2016 10:43 AM
Some great free video clips. Lots of ways to use these in the classroom.
Craig Van Ham's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 8:31 PM
Some great free video clips. Lots of ways to use these in the classroom.
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GrammarFlip is an interactive, online resource aimed at helping students of all abilities learn, practice, and master English grammar concepts.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a flipped classroom tool for teaching English grammar, with short video explainers followed by interactive exercises. All student activity is tracked back to an LMS. Great tool for making students responsible for their own learning.
Giancarlo Ganapini's curator insight,
March 3, 2016 3:14 PM
This is a flipped classroom tool for teaching English grammar, with short video explainers followed by interactive exercises. All student activity is tracked back to an LMS. Great tool for making students responsible for their own learning. 
Polina Kuznetsova's curator insight,
March 8, 2016 12:46 PM
This is a flipped classroom tool for teaching English grammar, with short video explainers followed by interactive exercises. All student activity is tracked back to an LMS. Great tool for making students responsible for their own learning.
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 10:07 AM
This is a flipped classroom tool for teaching English grammar, with short video explainers followed by interactive exercises. All student activity is tracked back to an LMS. Great tool for making students responsible for their own learning.
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Retell your life in one second from every day.
María Dolores Díaz Noguera's curator insight,
February 22, 2016 5:23 AM
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Rita C. Haire's curator insight,
February 23, 2016 7:50 AM
This is cool. I don't know if I could keep it up every day, but I'd like to try. Just one second!
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Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy, and intuitive to use.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great timeline creation tool with lots of guidance and templates to help you create an effective timeline narrative.
Stephanie Torczon-Essien's curator insight,
March 3, 2016 9:23 AM
Intuitive timeline creation tool with lots of guidance and templates to help students create a narrative. This one is awesome!
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 10:09 AM
Great timeline creation tool with lots of guidance and templates to help you create an effective timeline narrative.
Craig Van Ham's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 8:33 PM
Great timeline creation tool with lots of guidance and templates to help you create an effective timeline narrative.
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Easily Create online Presentations, animations, animated HTML5 banners, infographics and other rich visual content free in your browser. Visme is the perfect
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great tool for creating infographics and presentations.
PICTS Adliswil's curator insight,
March 8, 2016 5:34 AM
This looks like a great tool for creating infographics and presentations.
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 10:09 AM
This looks like a great tool for creating infographics and presentations. 
Isabel García's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 5:04 AM
This looks like a great tool for creating infographics and presentations.
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Our resident mobile-auteur guides us through ten film-making apps, including iMovie, Hyperlapse and Kinemaster, revealing some of their cleverest features.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great collection of tips and links to apps.
Tina Jameson's curator insight,
February 18, 2016 5:38 PM
I've used some of these already, and look forward to testing the others. VideoFX is certainly a favourite.
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
March 3, 2016 11:09 AM
Great collection of tips and links to apps.
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 10:09 AM
Great collection of tips and links to apps.
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Skoolbo is a great new site to help with reading and maths. Children are immersed in an incredible learning world and are highly motivated by the inbuilt rewards. Parents and teachers are equipped with an array of tools to help achieve wonderful educational outcomes for their children. And best of all – it’s free!
Nik Peachey's insight:
Interesting 3D world full of educational games.
PICTS Adliswil's curator insight,
March 8, 2016 5:16 AM
Interesting 3D world full of educational games.
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Clip items from the web, upload your own work, or find and re-clip content from others to customize and maximize your learning.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great way to create learning repositories and eportfolios.
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 10:10 AM
This looks like a great way to create learning repositories and eportfolios.
Isabel García's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 5:09 AM
This looks like a great way to create learning repositories and eportfolios.
Isabel García's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 5:09 AM
This looks like a great way to create learning repositories and eportfolios.
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The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, and flyers. Teachers and students can choose from several templates to publish class newspapers, informational brochures, and flyers announcing class events.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a nice free tool to get students creating newspapers, etc. There are also some links to ideas and lesson suggestions.
Odile Dupont's curator insight,
February 10, 2016 3:28 AM
Un outil simple pour présenter une brochure ou un journal 
Janet Chenoweth's curator insight,
March 2, 2016 6:50 PM
This is a nice free tool to get students creating newspapers, etc. There are also some links to ideas and lesson suggestions.
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 10:11 AM
This is a nice free tool to get students creating newspapers, etc. There are also some links to ideas and lesson suggestions.
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Easily capture children's thoughts and stories using visual prompts and voice.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great tool to get students speaking.
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Clips is the simplest video editor in the world. Easily add music and dissolve transitions in this award-winning iPhone app. Also works great on iPad.
Marinhos's curator insight,
February 6, 2016 5:52 AM
Professor. Que tal criar cineastas para revelarem o mundo da escola e em volta dela? 
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight,
February 12, 2016 8:15 PM
Another great app for the iPhone. Also works on the iPad. |
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Mo is about action shots & slow motion. Make slowmo GIFs & video loops with the ease of taking simple photos.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great tool for making slow motion video on your phone.
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
March 3, 2016 10:43 AM
Great tool for making slow motion video on your phone. 
Kimberly M. San Pedro's curator insight,
March 14, 2016 11:15 AM
Great tool for making slow motion video on your phone.
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 10:05 AM
Great tool for making slow motion video on your phone.
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Audio books have become increasingly popular in recent years (see Google Tends), but some people believe that listening to a good book is not as legitimate as reading one. In fact many authors, such as Dickens, wrote their books to be read out aloud. You can make the case that listening to Dickens’ books is more authentic than reading them.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Nice collection of stories with text and audio.
Malachy Scullion's curator insight,
February 24, 2016 3:10 AM
Great free site with a variety of stories suiting a variety of students. The stories are read in a variery of accents depending in the reader. For me, this makes it quite useful.
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Pindex is a pinboard for learning. Collect and discover the best material. Love teaching. Love learning.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a kind of Pinterest for learning. Enable you to curate courses from online materials of various kinds and award badges once students have completed the materials.
Polina Kuznetsova's curator insight,
March 8, 2016 12:44 PM
This is a kind of Pinterest for learning. Enable you to curate courses from online materials of various kinds and award badges once students have completed the materials. 
Character Minutes's curator insight,
March 10, 2016 4:34 PM
This is a kind of Pinterest for learning. Enable you to curate courses from online materials of various kinds and award badges once students have completed the materials. 
Sergei Polovin's curator insight,
March 14, 2016 6:53 AM
This is a kind of Pinterest for learning. Enable you to curate courses from online materials of various kinds and award badges once students have completed the materials.
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AirPano is a not-for-profit project focused on high-resolution virtual tours from a bird’s eye view. AirPano has already photographed over 300 most interesting locations on our planet and it is the largest resource for 360° aerial panoramas in the world. There are about 3000 spherical panoramas on our website at the moment.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great way for students to see the world.
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Quick Rubric – FREE, fast and simple rubric creator
Nik Peachey's insight:
A useful template for creating rubrics.
Curatorially Yours's curator insight,
April 4, 2016 4:54 AM
This rubric generator looks like a good tool to create rubrics in a hurry. Definitely one to explore: This rubric generator looks like a good tool to create rubrics in a hurry. Definitely one to explore!
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Teachers have told us they need a place to access safe images that are available to be used in the classroom and for educational purposes. Plus, they want accurate image citations. We’ve heard you and created “Photos For Class” to meet your needs for images!
Nik Peachey's insight:
A useful tool if you want to use images in your classroom.
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 10:08 AM
A useful tool if you want to use images in your classroom.
Isabel García's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 5:04 AM
A useful tool if you want to use images in your classroom.
Craig Van Ham's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 8:33 PM
A useful tool if you want to use images in your classroom.
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Pixel Press is a technology company focused on building engaging mobile gaming experiences for both sides of the brain: the analytical left side and the creative right side. Our products are fun for all ages, and flexible enough for many applications.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great site that has an app called Floors which enables students to design their own playable video games.
Janet Chenoweth's curator insight,
March 2, 2016 6:49 PM
Great site that has an app called Floors which enables students to design their own playable video games. 
Ivonne Tinoco's curator insight,
March 23, 2016 3:50 PM
Great site that has an app called Floors which enables students to design their own playable video games.
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Create and embed live video streams from your Phone.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Interesting tool for braodcasting lessons at low cost.
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Cloudschool is a free teaching platform. It's the easiest way for teachers to create and deliver lessons.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Another online teaching platform for creating blended and online learning.
Norman René Trujillo Zapata's curator insight,
April 4, 2016 11:32 AM
Another online teaching platform for creating blended and online learning. 
JOHN DSOUZA's curator insight,
April 5, 2016 2:45 AM
Another online teaching platform for creating blended and online learning. 
Celeste Foley's curator insight,
April 5, 2016 8:48 AM
Another online teaching platform for creating blended and online learning.
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For schools/companies we provide a set of tools for managing mic note users in your domain, you can pre-define app settings, such as syncing database, disable spell-checking, etc.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a really useful digital note taking tool which allows user to also record lectures, add images and create time linked transcriptions. Great way to make note taking a more effective.
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight,
February 16, 2016 6:10 PM
I love that this time stamps. Such a useful feature when doing interviews for research purposes!
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 10:10 AM
This looks like a really useful digital note taking tool which allows user to also record lectures, add images and create time linked transcriptions. Great way to make note taking a more effective.
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TinyTap is a social platform which empowers families, teachers and students to learn from each other by creating their own personalized interactive lessons and games and playing thousands of new ones shared daily by a worldwide community of educators and learners worldwide.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Interesting site that allows you and your students to create simple interactive apps that work across platforms.
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Splice has all the effects you need to create a great looking video: trim, crop, effects, titles, speed, Ken Burns, transitions, music, sound effects, and more.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Another free video editor for the iPhone.
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight,
February 12, 2016 7:04 PM
For the iPhone. It doesn't appear to have an Android app. |
This is a great site if you have a lot of old computers around that are too slow to use. Just convert them into Chromebooks and they can be used again.