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Copy offers a simple cloud solution to manage business and personal storage.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks useful and the basic free plan comes with 15GB storage. 
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Discover a world of animal adventures with Virry through wild animal live cameras, interactive videos, and countless hours of captivating entertainment and learning
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks ike a great free app to use with young learners.
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The Post-it® Plus App takes the momentum from your collaboration sessions and keeps it rolling. Simply capture your notes, organize and then share with everyone. It’s that easy.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great tool to use if you like brainstorming with Post-it notes.
Viljenka Savli (http://www2.arnes.si/~sopvsavl/)'s curator insight,
May 12, 2015 3:09 AM
useful app for brainstorming and collaboration
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Just what is a self-organised learning environment, and how can it help teachers? School In The Cloud’s Sally Rix explains how the idea changed her career tremendously.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Interesting article about how SOLE was approached in one school.
Julie Cumming-Debrot's curator insight,
May 8, 2015 6:19 AM
Students learn far more when fully engaged in passionate subjects and user friendly environments, these and thankfully coming to the fore now. It's been a long long wait.
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Buffer makes it super easy to share any page you're reading. Keep your Buffer topped up and we automagically share them for you through the day.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a great simple tool for mixing text with images. Create flash cards or get students to create example sentences or illustrate quotes.
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WeVideo is the leading online video creation platform for video editing, collaboration, and sharing across iPhone, iPad, Android, Chromebook, MAC, PC.
Nik Peachey's insight:
A really useful tool for video based projects.
emilioet's curator insight,
April 21, 2015 5:27 AM
WeVideo is the leading online video creation platform for video editing, collaboration, and sharing across iPhone, iPad, Android, Chromebook, MAC, PC.
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Photo proof is required to receive points for a mission. Luckily, our smartphone apps make completing a mission incredibly easy.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a great tool for creating situated learning that gets students out and about exploring the environment.
Filomena Gomes's curator insight,
April 21, 2015 1:53 AM
Good for treasure hunt or chasse au trésor?
Ricard Garcia's curator insight,
May 27, 2015 10:15 AM
Scavenger Hunts 2.0!!!! Image turned into quest! 
Craig Van Ham's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 9:20 PM
This is a great tool for creating situated learning that gets students out and about exploring the environment.
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Foldpass is a creative game where you write haikus with your friends. Write a line, invite friends to finish it. Make a nifty poster out of the completed work.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a nice free app for the collaborative creation of haikus. Just write a line and then pass it on.
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We help kids develop their writing, reading and creative thinking. Discover our educational games, apps and resources.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great tool to get younger kids creating narrative.
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GifGrabber is a free mac app that helps you generate animated gifs from video. Convert from any video source or format on your screen, including Youtube, VLC, Quicktime, etc.
Nik Peachey's insight:
A tool like this can be really handy for creating online instructional materials that show things like tool tips and which buttons to select on a user interface. Gifs also produce much smaller files than video and so download more quickly.
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Prodigy is a free math game for Grades 1 - 8 that kids absolutely love! Learn over 300 critical math skills in our self-paced math game.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks great.
Filomena Gomes's curator insight,
March 16, 2015 10:53 PM
Pokemon style game only available on Firefox or Chrome browsers. There are premium features for the characters if parents of students wish to purchase but the game, levels and teacher features are free. Accounts are required to play.
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Nurph is The Twitter Chat Platform. Free-flowing group chats, chat planning, statistics, replays, and more for buzzing Twitter Chat Communities.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a great tool for controlling Twitter chats. It even records them for playback and delivers a whole load of statistics. This is a really useful tool for anyone running Twitter discusions.
Ressources pour les cours d'anglais's curator insight,
March 12, 2015 11:53 PM
Il semblerait que ce soit un outil très intéressant pour contrôler les chats et travailler en différé.
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Is your writing academic or conversational? Is it related to your field of study? Paste it into the textarea here, hit "Analyze it now," and FieldRelated.com will check your text for academic vocabulary and field-relatedness. After extracting field of study vocabulary and scoring your text against a range of possible fields of study, the system will provide links to glossaries and vocabulary learning activities to help you further your English Second Language learning.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a very useful tool for helping students to develop their vocabulary. Should be particularly useful for EAP students.
Verity Cole's curator insight,
March 9, 2015 6:23 AM
Could be very useful for EAP materials writers too. 
Ruby Rennie Panter's curator insight,
March 9, 2015 6:55 AM
Fascinating! Is this the beginning of a computer-assisted stylstics analysis? |
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Estipaper gives you a time estimate on when you'll finish your paper, as well as other helpful facts.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great tool for helping students manage their time realistically.
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Put a unique twist on anything you want to communicate — a book report, weekly customer newsletter or your latest travel adventure. Slate automatically adapts to any device, creating a delightful read on tablets, phones or computers.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like an awsome free tool for anyone who wants to do some project work with their students.
flea palmer's curator insight,
June 1, 2015 7:29 AM
This could be a stylish alternative to PowerPoint-based Pitch Presentations...
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nicely designed whiteboardDeekit is a shared whiteboard that enables online editing using any kind of content, be it drawing, text, image, anything. A whiteboard that is available anytime, anywhere on any device.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a really nicely designed whiteboard that runs across a range of devices.
Suzanne's curator insight,
May 10, 2015 4:48 AM
Looks good to try out for free. Don't like that sign in options are only through Facebook, Google or Microsoft, though. 
Liz Horrocks's curator insight,
May 10, 2015 11:26 AM
Adult and Teenage students would love this - also good for out of the classroom learning, or virtual one-to-ones.
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Learning Bird is an affordable, online alternative to private tutoring. We match content from real teachers to students based on their geographic location, their grade level and their learning profile.
Nik Peachey's curator insight,
May 6, 2015 1:30 AM
This looks like a good potential way for teachers to share their lessons and make some extra money.
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Make beautiful videos, online, easily! How to make travel movies, wedding videos, promo ads, property virtual tours: just add photos, clips, music and watch your video!
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a great free tool for creating videos online. Great for student projetcs.
emilioet's curator insight,
April 21, 2015 5:29 AM
Make amazing videos in secondsMake beautiful movies using your photos and videos. Tell your story with text, maps. It's very easy, and super fun!
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Noisli is a fantastic background noise and color generator for working and relaxing. Plus Text Editor for distraction-free writing and Markdown support.
Nik Peachey's insight:
A nice way of creating atmosphere in your classroom.
Ressources pour les cours d'anglais's curator insight,
April 18, 2015 6:28 PM
J'ai bien envie de tester cette ambiance sonore dans mes classes. 
Andrew Sparks's curator insight,
April 24, 2015 12:00 AM
I never like studying in absolute silence. I always gravitate towards having sound whenever I am trying to concentrate. This is perfect for students and teachers alike who are sometimes stuck reading those big boring textbooks and would like to give themselves a concentration boost
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Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a great image editing application for Macs. Lots of features and great for students to use on their image based projects.
Andrew Sparks's curator insight,
April 24, 2015 12:01 AM
good for the history student who wants to use a photo for their paper but have to touch it up in order for their project to look more visually appealing
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We asked ourselves why podcasting is a medium reserved for tech geeks and media corporations. Our answer is Opinion, audio recording and editing made human.
Nik Peachey's insight:
An easy to use podcasting tool for creating short audios and getting them online quickly.
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Loop lets you easily create short hand-drawn animations on your iPad and share them via email, Tumblr and in the Loop gallery.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a useful free tool for creating short hand drawn animations on the iPad. A great way to illustrate or get students to illustrate meaning and concepts.
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School in the Cloud allows learning to happen anywhere by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and ability to work together in Self Organised Learning Envrionments.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a great resource to generate student research and discussion.
Ruby Rennie Panter's curator insight,
March 19, 2015 10:25 AM
This is a really interesting development, following on from the "Granny Cloud" experiment. The idea of self-directed learning is obviously not new, but the way of using technology to bring together groups of learners for different purposes is extremely thought-provoking. Thanks, Nik Peachey, for the link. 
Raj Shekhar Mishra's curator insight,
March 20, 2015 2:01 AM
A great resource. Self-organized learning propelled by the sense of wonder, curiosity and collaborative social learning.
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Nik Peachey's insight:
Nice word cloud generator. I know! But can you really ever have too many??
A.K.Andrew's curator insight,
March 16, 2015 11:14 AM
Word clouds are useful in all kinds of ways for writers to look at repetition, as well as for use in the classroom. 
SMARTERTEACHER's curator insight,
March 16, 2015 6:52 PM
Word Generators are great ways to get students to think about the associations between words and concepts. 
GLASGOW ESOL FORUM's curator insight,
September 5, 2016 3:49 AM
Good morning everyone. Here is a fantastic tool for teachers useful when doing new vocabulary.
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UNESCO’s radio toolkit – Linking Generations through Radio – is an open access document, which is inspired by children and youth who make up one-third of the world’s population. The majority may listen to radio but the likelihood they are invited to regularly produce interviews and programmes, express their information needs or their opinions about productions made for them is very low.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a useful resource for anyone interested in doing a project on radio.
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I'm all for online storage. It amazing how soon the minimal free limits on various services get filled up.
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This looks useful and the basic free plan comes with 15GB storage.