Tools for Teachers & Learners

Use it to express ideas and projects on line in real time

For art & social studies :)

Awesome tool

A very useful resource.

It's a must

Great online dictionary.

While much of this can be done in Google docs, there are several features which can extend the conversation.  Teachers do need to share documents via email.  

Intéressant outil pour faire du commentaire social (débat électronique) sur un document, avec des possibilités de tri et de tracking ... Parfait pour l'hybridation de cours

Le pendant de VoiceThread à l'écrit. NowComment permet de commenter / débattre par écrit sur des documents du web en mode privé ou public. Le mode public ne propose pas de filtre de langue, difficile donc pour le moment de proposer des activités FLE de contributions à des débtas ouverts essentiellement en anglais. 

Looks fun

Es fundamental en este tiempo, como diría el sociólogo Richard Rorty "mantener las convesaciones en movimiento, como forma de investigación implícita". Estas herramientas ayudan.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a really nice tool to get students creating presentations and using their own voice to narrate. Great way to get students speaking.

This could really make a difference for those of us who move from location to location. Thx Nik Peachey!

Useful one for anyone doing a lot of academic reading.

Marfinnote- for making notes on PDF readings

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Worth looking into

Email seguro para niños.

Useful for those staff and students who wish to create blogs from their Evernote posts.

@Amy Vitala

Blogging platform powered by Evernote.

Sign up with your Evernote account, blog directly from your Evernote application (PC, Mac, mobile, etc.).

Une alternative à PowerPoint, qui est de plus compatible avec les smartphones et les tablettes.

Strut é uma nova ferramenta grátis para criação de apresentações online capaz de o surpreender com a simplicidade de utilização e os resultados que gera.

Tudo o que precisa é de um browser, uma ligação à rede e alguma criatividade. Um dos seus pontos fortes e onde se destaca da concorrência é a manipulação das transições entre slides mas permite igualmente o uso de coleções nativas de efeitos.

Strut funciona perfeitamente em todos os suportes - PCs, Tablets e Smartphones - e não carece de registo. Pode gravar as apresentações no seu computador, importar e voltar a editá-las.

Trata-se ainda da versão Beta mas merece, desde já, a nossa maior atenção.

This looks like a great tool for creating presentations and storing them online. It works in the web browser using html 5 and so will also work on most mobile devices. An excellent alternative to PPT.

Literacy helper

Fear to speak in the target language in non-native speakers' classroom has been a long topic of debate among the educationist, teachers and planners alike. Most children in Nepalese context either feel humiliated before they make mistakes in their utterance. Others fear to share their thoughts due to lack of proper knowledge of target language. While a large group of students, in the school where I teach, do not want to hear the negative feed backs from their teachers. There is always one or other reasons, which may not work together in every students, for excuses to students when it comes to speaking in the targeted language.

Great to double check your writing.

Excellent for all levels of English. 

If you want to improve your grammar, this is the tool you need!!!

Great for student projects!

Not sure why they call it a video?!? http://goo.gl/J3opMK

Kids like this, would like to add graphics.

Amazing! A new Google tool allowing creating stories and converting them into videos.

Another great site for a photo essay

A lovely tool, but the free version is really just a trial. Not too expensive, though, at only $5 a month for anyone who has need of it. 

This looks a really good way to create a photo story - nice layout too...

This app has been a plaything of mine for the last couple of weeks, and I am going to play over the holidays to see how it works. It is very easy to use: upload a video, write some notes/activities and there is the lesson. Seems a simple way to make flipped content for those starting to flip. 

This is essentially like edmodo but has some other interesting features to monitor discussions from each person.

Need for  one on one device capability

Am keen to try it out. It could be the answer to my prayers

Many of the students use OneNote on their iPads, so this may be a valuable tool for staff to learn about, as well.  It is now available as a free Mac program.

HOW long have we been waiting for this?

An interesting twist on varying your writing. But the comment was correct - there is a bit of a disruption to the writing process and they students need to be reminded that google is not without spelling mistakes!

The application helps to check your writing (in English) not only regarding spelling and grammer but adds tools to check examples of the use of a certain phrase, context and synonyms, too.

can't wait to use this. Short tutorial pretty much explains it all

A really simple curation tool which could be really useful for students collecting content from a range of sources which can be filed in an easy-to-find folder structure.

Interesante herramienta para guardar: fotos, vídeos, textos, URLs de forma sencilla, fácil y rápida. 

Se integra con Firefox, Chrome y Safari. 

Puedes crear carpetas para organizar el contenido.

Se puede compartir con Facebook, Twitter y Google+.

Definitely worth trying!

Amazingly easy to use. A good way to turn reading comprehension into something catchy!

Appears to be geared mostly toward secondary at this time.  Would love to see upper elementary text added.

another video conferencing option

FaceTime on the iPad is great but this could be better in that its multiplatform.

This sounds perfect for video conferencing. It's good for groups of up to 8 people and is  free too!

Slideidea, uma nova ferramenta online de criação de slides, permite-lhe criar excelentes apresentações a partir de uma coleção de templates moderna e muito completa.

Mas onde Slideidea se distingue verdadeiramente da concorrência é nas suas possibilidades de interação com a audiência: cada apresentação recebe um url único, para partilha, que permite, ao público acompanhar a apresentação slide a slide, fazer comentários, votações, questões, etc.

Slideideia permite ainda importar (e melhorar) apresentações Powerpoint e ficheiros Pdf.

Não chega? Muito bem: com Slideideia pode ainda gravar as suas falas durante a apresentação. Excelente!

Otra forma de hacer presentaciones....

This is an excellent idea for letting kids work through your presentations at their own pace. I wonder how it integrates with Keynote for importing existing work?

I am definitely going to have a play with this one.