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Create a monster and take it on an adventure through a magical world. Travel to exciting places, meet fun characters, play games and win prizes as your monster learns the first steps of reading.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a nice game-based site to help get kids started with reading.
Shaneka Lopez's curator insight,
September 19, 2013 4:43 AM
Free tool for parents to support reading instruction for their child!
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A plain text writing environment lets you focus on the words, not the presentation.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a really useful tool for developing writing skills and marking student homework without having to exchange lots of attachments.
flea palmer's curator insight,
September 18, 2013 7:11 AM
I'm not sure how this differs from using Google docs but, as this has been developed by writers specifically for collaborative writing I think this will be of interest to Learning Developers 
Dean Mantz's curator insight,
September 22, 2013 11:05 PM
This looks to be another collaboration site that follows the footsteps of Titan Pad, Type With Me, Zoho, and Google Docs.
Resource shared by Nik Peachey on Scoop It.
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The easiest way to caption and translate any video, with crowdsourcing, volunteers, and professional services.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a very useful but simple to use tool for adding subtitles and translations to online videos.
Louise Robinson-Lay's curator insight,
October 11, 2013 6:17 PM
Adding captions to video is simple using this tool. 
Training in Business's curator insight,
November 15, 2013 5:33 AM
Amara - Caption, translate, subtitle and transcribe video.
#presentationtips http://goo.gl/BRqvr0
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Ever tried sending a file from one device to another?
Nik Peachey's insight:
Once it is set up, this app is a really a very quick and handy way of moving almost anything between your laptop, desktop or mobile devices. Excellent time saver if you work with media on different devices. For Apple only I'm afraid.
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zeega
Zeega is a new form of interactive media, enabling anyone to express themselves by easily combining media from the cloud. Make the web you want.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Zeega is a great tool for creating digital narrative. Users can add their own media as well as using found media from around the internet and media supplied by Zeega. They drag media onto digital pages and can edit them and add their own text commentary and sound track. Here's a great example http://zeega.com/152325 which celebrates 50 years since martin Luther King's 'I had a dream' speech.
Terry Yelmene's curator insight,
August 29, 2013 11:35 AM
Zeega is yet another curator offering, but with some interesting, more potent, multi-sourcing capabilites. Check it out!
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Create your own animated story, share your story on the web, remix to learn new skills, and learn to program!
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a great tool for getting students to produce 3D animated movies which they can share online. They also get a sneak peak into the world of programming. You need to download the software and watch the tutorials, but this is a great project for kids.
LundTechIntegration's curator insight,
August 30, 2013 11:07 AM
Awesome Tool. I am going to try this. 
Alexis Tzormpatzakis's curator insight,
September 4, 2013 10:02 AM
I am going to try this for school!!! 
Rebecca Stern's curator insight,
September 4, 2013 1:29 PM
Looks interesting, I wonder if it can be downloaded?
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Start conversations. Tell stories.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Six3 is similar to MailVu and also compatible with most platforms, but it gives you the choice of recording private or public message and has an additional filter feature which can help to improve your appearance on the video. It's called Six3 because you have 63 seconds of recording time in each message. Like Mailvu, the messages are also sent via links through your email, but they can also be posted directly to Twitter or Facebook from within the app.
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Like treasure hunting, geocaching, or scavenger hunts? Here's a quick, fun way to create and play outdoor finding games using your phone's camera and GPS!
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great tool for creating visual treasure hunts, just click photos of things you want students to find and then send the the treasure hunt. They have to find and match up their own pictures.
's comment August 20, 2013 7:17 AM
Could this be used in a library setting? I think so but could do with some ideas.
Casey Anley's curator insight,
August 21, 2013 6:06 AM
This could be a really fun thing to try on a class camp!
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Dictanote is a mini Word Editor with Speech Recognition built-in and runs on your browser
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a nice simple browser based word processor. The dictation facility only works in Chrome, but it works pretty well. I tried it with a few tongue twisters and it got most of them right first time.
Casey Anley's curator insight,
August 21, 2013 6:04 AM
Yay! A dictation service that actually works well!
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Here’s a little something many of us dread – webcam meetings. It’s one thing to chat with friends and family using Skype or Google Hangouts, but it’s another thing completely to try to look good and maintain a professional image for a webcam meeting.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Well worth helping students work on this as it will become increasingly important as more and more work is done this way.
Juan Fernández's curator insight,
August 1, 2014 3:56 PM
Nik Peachey's insight: Well worth helping students work on this as it will become increasingly important as more and more work is done this way.
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Get 1TapNote - Notes directly on the Home Screen on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Who doesn't use sticky notes? I know I do. Now we can use thme on the homescreen of the iPad.
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Write better with Draft. Easy version control and collaboration to improve your writing.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a really nicely designed collaborative text editor which makes tracking and marking up changes much more transparent and easier to handle than tools like Google Docs or Word.
Fabiola Hermosilla Alegria's curator insight,
August 14, 2013 8:37 PM
Excelente para profes de lenguaje 
Bart van Maanen's curator insight,
August 28, 2013 6:16 AM
Dit is een mooie manier om je met schrijven te helpen, want je kan iemand uitnodigen je tekst te bekijken. Je kunt hem ook annoteren en versie vergelijken. |
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Kids’ Things to Think About provides 100 prompts to spark thinking for written responses and encourage conversations about ideas and issues for kids. Created by students and teachers in Michigan, it can be used in classrooms or with families by allowing children to explore the prompts and by using them to guide a discussion
Nik Peachey's insight:
Nice app to find things to get kids talking.
Ariana Amorim's curator insight,
September 19, 2013 5:42 AM
-12 categories of questions including Friends, Family, School, Fun and Feelings.
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Create a Gooru collection to engage your students and tier instruction either with different levels or learning styles. Collection narration allows you to provide teacher instruction so that students are well supported while away from the teacher.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Gooru is an education focused search engine which allows you to pull together collections of your results and share them.
Lauren Furgason's comment,
September 17, 2013 4:21 PM
This might develop into something interesting...
Patti Griffiths Bryant's curator insight,
September 18, 2013 12:04 PM
I think this has potential in corrections education. 
Steph's Journalism Group 2013's curator insight,
October 7, 2013 7:22 PM
Chwayita Ceejay January's insight:
An interesting search engine directly used for educational purposes. It creates a mediated yet reciprocial intimacy between students and teachers outside the classroom environment. I'm quite fascinated with how students can engage in different lessons or levels according to the different teaching they would prefer.:) But alas! It would take quite a while before it kicks off here.
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Openmeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a really useful piece of open source software for building into online courses.
A/Prof Jon Willis's curator insight,
September 10, 2013 9:23 PM
An opensource alternative to Adobe's virtual classroom software
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Since Gingko is tree-based, one person can work on the overall organization, while a second is writing the main points of a particular section, and a third is taking those points and fleshing them out in a subsection.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a great app if you have a long document that you need to write, such as a dissertation, book or project of some kind. It allows you to see the structure of the document at three different levels and you can even get people collaborating and reorganising the structure of the text at those different levels. Very useful.
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
September 22, 2013 6:32 PM
Very good app for long documents. You could work in a 3 tree level, allowing you to conect between levels, add links, pics, etc... quite user-friendly. 
Anne-Christin Tannhäuser's curator insight,
February 25, 2014 5:52 AM
Need to try out this tool, looks exciting! 
Asif Mehedi's curator insight,
June 11, 2014 12:56 PM
Now that I've discovered the wonderful Gingko App, my writing (and pre-writing) is not going to be the same again.
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Rewordify.com helps you understand more of what you read, faster. It translates hard English into easier English.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like it might be a helpful tool for EFL / ESL students and teachers. Just copy and paste a text into the filed and it will replace harder words with simpler ones.
Gabi Witthaus's curator insight,
September 3, 2013 4:47 AM
Interesting idea - this could be useful in EFL teaching or just for people who are reading in English as a second language and need a bit of help.
I tried it on the Adobe Connect website to see if it would demystify some of the 'Marketese' though, and it didn't help much! A sentence such as 'Powering mission-critical web conferencing solutions, end-to-end, on virtually any device' is full of everyday words which are being used in an unnecessarily obscure way. Which is why I'm in favour of simply writing in plain English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_english).
On that subject, I recently discovered the absolutely wonderful Simple English Wikipedia (http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page), which does just that.
ytchquelia cargill's curator insight,
September 7, 2013 9:37 PM
This website is made for children that have a hard time understanding a word or sentence in the English language. By breaking down a word or difficult sentence into word that the child will be able to know.
Info: Rewordify.com
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TouchCast makes the language of TV come alive. On playback, touch a graphic to browse a related article, image, or content from the web. The video will keep playing while your audience engages with the vApp
Nik Peachey's insight:
Touchcast is an app for creating video content which links to various web based and embedded resources and media. It enables the user to create a video commentary which guides the viewer through various websites and study resources and gives a commentary of what these resources contain. At the same time the user can add supporting images to their video to support understanding of what they are saying. Great for creating flipped learning.
Terry Yelmene's curator insight,
August 29, 2013 11:47 AM
Knowledge is equal parts contructivism (conceptual) and connectivism (social) and to the degree that communication can be broadened and enhanced to affect both at the same time, knowledge devlopment becomes more enabled. Touchcast is the kind of tech development that could have just such an effect in this arena. Ya.. this could be... fantastic! 
Alison Marsh's curator insight,
September 11, 2013 12:14 PM
This looks very useful but for learning&teaching or production? Not sure - further investigation required. Also: anyone know how much this costs?
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Enhance your sharing experience. Add your personal touch to your iPhone's videos by actually reacting on screen to what your iPhone captures, and then share them by mail, or upload them to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Eyereport puts an interesting twist on the video communication genre by adding the ability to record video on video. By this I mean that you can upload or record a video on your mobile device and then add a video commentary over the top explaining or commenting on what you see on the original video. Once you have completed the recording these can be shared to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or emailed directly from within the app. See http://nikpeachey.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/video-communication-apps-and-mobile.html for ore video communication apps.
Paulo Moekotte's curator insight,
August 26, 2013 9:10 AM
Deze app biedt ideale mogelijkheden om iets te delen door middel van video in een onderwijssetting (zoals bijvoorbeeld een praktijkmoment in de BPV) en daar vervolgens persoonlijk als stagiair(e) op te reageren of reflecteren door middel van een overlay. 
Dico Krommenhoek's curator insight,
August 26, 2013 10:14 AM
Zou interressant kunnen zijn voor verhalen vertellen in M.V.T. 
M W Jones's curator insight,
August 26, 2013 4:55 PM
allows you to add your own voice-over comments to video clips (reactions to personal videos/explanations for teaching)
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Turn your vision into reality by creating your own version of an existing PDF or textbook. Give it a dynamic touch, jot down notes, add video/audio clips, and discuss materials with your readers within your interactive content. Use Active Textbook to learn, teach or simply share your documents online – it's easy!
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great tool for creating interaction and adding multimedia to PDF content. Free for materials up to 500 page.
Renuka de Silva's curator insight,
August 30, 2013 2:26 PM
A fun and a meaningful way to engage students in their learning.
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An open collection of Tutorials,Lectures and training Courses from top universities and colleges.10000+ free training courses.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This site collects together video tutorials and lectures from all over the internet and puts them into a browsable index. Useful for some autonomous student development.
Katja Kranjec's curator insight,
September 1, 2013 11:04 AM
A great site, it covers a range of different topics and could be very useful when teaching English for Specific Purposes.
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Just click the button above to start recording. We will give you an mp3 you can save, and a link you can share with anyone.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a really simple way to create and share mp3 recordings without having to download any specific software. I tried it using Firefox on Mac and recorded well with good sound clarity, but hasn't yet uploaded. Would be interested to see if anyone else has more success.
Tony Gough's comment,
August 26, 2013 7:05 AM
I think the best audio recorder is 'Audacity'. Yes, there's a learning curve, not much of one, and the options it gives pretty amazing to say that it's free!
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Viz is the first iOS App that lets you create simple graph charts instantly
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a handy tool for creating graphs and visualising data.
Dean J. Fusto's comment,
August 31, 2013 10:18 PM
Thanks for the scoop. I am eager to test Viz. -Dean
موسى ابو عوكل's curator insight,
November 28, 2013 5:14 AM
שלומי הוא מקום שאני לא יודע איפה הוא לכן אני רוצה עזרה ממכם
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Create videos together! Record, edit and publish videos right from your mobile device, then collaborate and remix videos uploaded by the MixBit community.
Nik Peachey's insight:
With all the power of Google behind it, it's hard to see how this won't be a success. Great tool for getting students to collaborate on video based projects together.
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This looks like an impressive platform to help students revise for tests and exams and generally improve their study skills.