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Paste your own text here and click the 'Check Text' button. Click the colored phrases for details on potential errors.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Really easy to use grammar and spell checker. There is also a plugin for websites. 
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BEhereBEthere offers fun and free courses which improve your business english. Select your study level Watch videos, take tests and complete activities.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This site has some great interactive materials for teachers and students of Business English.
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Transform your classroom into an immersive game, played with your students throughout the semester or school year.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great tool to gamify your classroom.
flea palmer's curator insight,
October 23, 2014 4:43 AM
This seems to be aimed at children rather than HE students but looks interesting...
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Learn marketing, fast. Primer is a free app that gives you insider tips and case studies, and shows you how to avoid mistakes and get more customers.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Interesting app for business English students. Has 5 min marketing lessons.
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Thought Plan: A minimalistic tool for planning projects, organizing your thoughts and storing simple documents. Powered by markdown.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a powerful tool for planning essays and assignments.
Aguilar Dominique's curator insight,
October 11, 2014 6:27 AM
Plusieurs voies pour s'organiser amène de la créativité 
Lindsay Sprague's curator insight,
January 29, 2015 4:22 PM
This looks like a powerful tool for organizing and planning writing assignments. It could also be useful for planning units, events, or helping students get more organized. It's simple, so there are no fancy bells and whistles to confuse my students. I might consider using this!
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Free, minimalistic, distraction-free, highly customizable cloud text editor for writers. TypWrittr featuring unique concept of inspirational presets. Write your book from any device with pleasure, for free, forever.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a good way to make sure your students don't get distracted by facebook while they are supposed to be doing writing tasks.
kathymcdonough's curator insight,
October 7, 2014 7:58 AM
Imagine students writing without playing with the fonts and colors...
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A wordless picturebook app for iPad that inspires your child to become the storyteller.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great free tool to encourage kids to speak and create stories.
Ness Crouch's curator insight,
May 25, 2015 2:57 AM
This looks like an interesting app. I'm wondering how it would work for assessment? 
Rebekah Crouch's curator insight,
August 4, 2015 10:21 PM
This looks like an interesting app. I'm wondering how it would work for assessment?
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Selfie is the fun new way to have face-to-face video Conversations with people you know and people you’ll meet -- from friends and family to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great free video communication tool which students will love.
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Richard Whiteside's curator insight,
October 6, 2014 11:44 AM
More DIY publishing and this time it's gone MOOC. 
Akhtar Hameed Khan's curator insight,
October 20, 2014 1:05 AM
Teaching young boys and girls to understand the principles of accounting in easy steps is my goal. 
Miguel Paul Trijaud Calderón's curator insight,
December 23, 2014 4:39 PM
Mas tecnologia para una experiencia de aprendizaje cada vez mas global...
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Isabel García's curator insight,
September 20, 2014 6:25 AM
el profesor crea una cuenta para la clase a la que acceden los alumnos con un código. No se necesita registro del alumno. Facilidad de compartir recursos con cualquiera dentro de la clase.
Miguel Paul Trijaud Calderón's curator insight,
September 20, 2014 9:11 AM
Nkwiry is a free social bookmarking site that allows a teacher and a group of students to share and curate content.
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HomeTube transforms your Android device into a safe, child-friendly haven where kids have instant access to watch whatever YouTube content they want from a list of content you deem suitable.
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Donna shoesmith's curator insight,
September 14, 2014 3:39 AM
Whilst there may be links for Media here, these films are also very useful for PSE and discussion in form period. Worth a look! |
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Pyne is the most engaging way to crowd source your everyday questions and curiosities. Information is power. Poll the world.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a nice tool for creating mobile polls and quizzes for students.
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Use WalkMe to Make Moodle Easier to Use with Onscreen Guidance
Nik Peachey's insight:
Moodle is a great tool for creating online courses if you know how to use it. Here you can use it to set up a course for free.
Anna-Liisa Hayward's curator insight,
November 1, 2014 7:00 AM
Anything that can help with Moodle is appreciated! 
ManufacturingStories's curator insight,
November 1, 2014 2:42 PM
For more resources on STEM Education visit http://bit.ly/1640Tbl 
Audrey's curator insight,
November 3, 2014 2:24 PM
Moodle is a great resource to help learning. Have a look at http://www.hotmoodle.com where students of psychology are able to download AQA A lesson "bibles" written for students to gain top grades.
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Teach languages? Try our Virtual Classroom or Blended School, live online
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a really nice tool for delivering online learning and building community among learners.
Jose Pietri's curator insight,
October 16, 2014 4:19 AM
Update the Venn diagram image for BL projects. 
Suzanne's curator insight,
October 16, 2014 8:42 AM
I have yet to encounter a virtual language learning environment that is worthwhile but this one looks good and one can try it out for free. 
Magalona Szt's curator insight,
November 3, 2014 1:34 PM
Une nouvelle plateforme de e-learning pour l'apprentissage en ligne des langues. Elle met en avant le concept de "blended learning" .
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Reading to children has been repeatedly shown to improve their reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking, concentration and general academic aptitude… as well as inspire a love of reading. The Screen Actors Guild Foundation records well-known actors reading children’s books and makes graphically dynamic videos so that children around the world can be read to with just the click of a Storyline Online video book image.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Really nice resource for younger learners. Nice stories told on video by professional actors.
Sue Ward's curator insight,
October 17, 2014 5:03 AM
A classic reference for the benefits of reading aloud - THE READ ALOUD HANDBOOK by Jim Trelease
Aguilar Dominique's curator insight,
January 24, 2015 3:42 AM
La connaissance ? c'est très jeune qu'il faut commencer à apprendre pour développer la curiosité et la mémoire.
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Nik Peachey's insight:
Pretty much what it says on the box.
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Every YouTube video that is embedded in your site will automatically be replaced with your new player.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This should be useful if you are embedding video from YouTube into a course. It allows you to use a custom player and add your own logo.
Lara N. Madden's curator insight,
October 7, 2014 6:26 PM
This is cool, will test and let you know how it works...
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Easy and efficient way to organize, structure and keep track of notes the way you want. Keep it simple or take it to the next level - advanced data management with unique type, tagging, templating and filtering features.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great digital study tool and one that can integrate with the rest of your life and help to keep things organised.
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
October 1, 2014 5:51 PM
Boards and lists
More natural way for managing related notes like to-do lists or project tasks. Lists are set of tags that act as filters. By drag notes across lists notes will change their tags accordingly. 
emilioet's curator insight,
October 7, 2014 5:03 AM
Interessante ma non ci sono metodi di condivisione.
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Infinit lets you easily transfer unlimited files of any size, and to anyone through a free application for Mac OS X and Windows.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a useful service for quickly sharing files and media.
Marshall Gass's curator insight,
October 3, 2014 2:22 PM
This app seems the best way to manage those bulky manuscripts without it getting lost in transit. Perhaps, you add a copyright digital signature to each document ( which covers the entire Ms) and you are away. Its a much better way to organise the volume of work that piles up on a writers hard drive and clutters your thinking. Check it out.
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A.K.Andrew's curator insight,
September 25, 2014 5:59 PM
Looks like a great tool for young and not so young!
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Nick van Breda's curator insight,
September 26, 2014 2:41 AM
Seems like a nice #tool to #brainstorm with 
Kim Flintoff's comment,
October 1, 2014 5:22 AM
GroupMap is a terrific tool- was lucky enough to be involved as a tester very early in development and its been a delight watching it grow.
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Darleana McHenry's curator insight,
September 18, 2014 11:27 PM
I am learning this new program and I thought that I would share it.
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From advanced image filters to professional local adjustments, Polarr is the most versatile and powerful photo editing tool in the web.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Very nice browser based imaging tool for student to use on photographic projects.
Evelyn Izquierdo's curator insight,
September 12, 2014 11:27 AM
Great tool, indeed. It looks very versatile. Let's try it this new school year. ;) 
Tim Brook's curator insight,
September 13, 2014 7:52 AM
I like the look of this. Adjustable filtering nice UI |
Just what the doctor ordered!
Help language learners improve their writing skill.
Interessante strumento di controllo grammaticale online