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Tapestry is a growing collection of short, wonderful stories made for reading on your phone.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is an impressive free app for reading or creating stories. Very simple to use and the stories are designed to be read on mobile devices. 
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Nik Peachey's insight:
Some useful tools to help prompt and improve story writing.
HJackson's curator insight,
July 3, 2013 8:55 PM
This is a great tool to have your students review their writing. 
rsplearning's comment,
August 6, 2013 11:14 AM
I glanced at that matlab site. How do students use that without relying on the consultants to do their work for them?
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The Flipboard Editor allows you to manage your magazines from a convenient dashboard. Rearrange and delete items, set covers and share your magazines with friends
Nik Peachey's insight:
As well as being a great mobile app reader, Flipboard now enables users to create and share their own magazines based around web based content that they simply bookmark in the browser and then edit. This is a great tool for creating e-books with content for students or getting students to use for projects. There's a good tutorial here to show you how it works: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-your-own-stylish-magazines-with-the-flipboard-browser-bookmarklet/
Helen Davies's curator insight,
June 25, 2013 5:34 AM
I'm hoping this will allow me to create magazines with my students online - fingers crossed. 
Sandrine Pac-Kenny's comment,
June 25, 2013 10:30 AM
I like flipboard. must try it out to make magazine.
designandtech's curator insight,
July 29, 2013 7:49 PM
I can't start my day without Flipboard. It's awesome.
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Matterhorn is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. Institutions will use Matterhorn to produce lecture recordings, manage existing video, serve designated distribution channels, and provide user interfaces to engage students with educational videos.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great free tool for schools. The server was don so i was able to try it out, but if it does what it says on the box it should be a great tool for creating flipped learning.
Andy Wasklewicz's comment,
June 22, 2013 10:33 AM
Hi all, the link is fixed. I hope to see some of you join the Opencast community
Fabrizio Bartoli's curator insight,
July 10, 2013 3:17 PM
It looks very useful for a school LMS, I wonder if it can be easily integrated.intefaced with Google Apps
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WeSpeke is a free and open global language platform and marketplace cultural exchange where users teach, learn and practice languages.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a well designed tool to partner people up for language exchange and peer leaning through video conferencing. Lots of language support and safety features.
Julia Clarke's comment,
June 17, 2013 12:51 PM
Thanks Nik this looks really useful for students planning to do study abroad
Nalya Ovshieva's curator insight,
June 27, 2013 5:33 AM
The global language platform is particularly useful for EFL students to overcome the psychological barrier and start using the language.
Nalya Ovshieva's comment,
June 27, 2013 5:33 AM
The global language platform is particularly useful for EFL students to overcome the psychological barrier and start using the language.
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Improve your brain health and performance with brain games designed by neuroscientists to exercise memory and attention. Customize your personalized brain training program today.
Nik Peachey's insight:
I'm not really sure that this works, but it is really well designed and you can get started for free and try it out.
Moricz Krisztina's curator insight,
August 1, 2013 4:14 AM
This is my absolute favourite. It works! And I love it! :) Try it!
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A habit building program which treats your life like a Role Playing Game. Level up as you succeed, lose HP as you fail, earn money to buy weapons and armor.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a really great tool to get students motivated and doing tasks more autonomously. They can configure tasks and try to change habits and add motivational rewards and gamification elements to keep themselves motivated. I'll be using this myself from now on.
Diego Gomez's curator insight,
October 8, 2013 12:55 AM
Convierte tus habitos de vida en un juego de rol!
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Get Split Pic 2.0 - Clone Yourself, + Photo Filters and FX ! on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Nice app to create some strange and fun effects. Put yourself in the same image multiple times.
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Create and play your own game show and quiz show templates free without Powerpoint!
Nik Peachey's insight:
Create online quizzes from templates and use them in class. Great to get students creating peer reviews of materials.
Ludmila Smirnova's curator insight,
June 8, 2013 7:14 AM
From @NikPeachey For a creative quiz design
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A compilation of people asking real questions and getting real replies from people all over the world. You simply ask a short ten-second video question, and everyone with the app sees it. Instantly, people begin to reply by sending in their answers in form of ten-second video replies.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Really nice idea to have a video Q&A app for crowdsourcing information from around the world, just a shame you have to register through facebook.
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The site promotes the innovative and creative use of film in language learning. All of the lesson plans revolve around the use of video and film to teach English. The site promotes cineliteracy, the ability to analyse moving images, and considers cineliteracy as a 21st century skill which our students need to learn.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great collection of ready made lessons here.
Graciela Flores's curator insight,
September 17, 2023 1:25 AM
This film making tool is a good source to teach in a very unique way. It provides innovative digital materials designed around short films and videos, and feature-length films. Its approach focuses in embeds empathy, compassion, diversity, justice, equity, and inclusion as core values of teaching and learning.
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A free resource that uses interactive video and games-based learning to teach students vocabulary. Educators can set school tournaments, and students can play fun learning games challenging classmates and other schools.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Wordia has certainly changed a lot over the last few years and now has much more of a focus on game based learning. One of the really nice things about the site is that teachers and students can now author their own games based around the vocabulary they want to revise.
Ness Crouch's curator insight,
July 3, 2013 4:58 PM
looks like fun... maybe I can create some of my own topics in this?
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Portfoliogen was developed by teachers for teachers to allow you to use todays technology to create a web based portfolio and display your skills beyond the conventional paper-based portfolio. This online service provides teachers with a way to create their own professional looking webpage in less than 5 minutes.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is more of a tool for teachers than for learners, but it is a good idea to have a web based portfolio and good to use to set an example for your students. I actually use Scoop.it for my portfolio http://www.scoop.it/t/nik-peachey but might give this a try.
Pablo Barrios's curator insight,
June 6, 2013 3:19 PM
Portafolios para docentes. Una herramienta para evaluar y analizar.
Ness Crouch's curator insight,
July 3, 2013 4:33 PM
Great way to organise yourself and your professional learning |
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Narrable is an online storytelling platform that combines your important photos with the voices that bring them to life. The Narrable iOS app includes a lightweight camera to capture memories as they happen and a built-in audio recorder to preserve the voices behind the memory. After you have uploaded your content, log in at narrable.com to view, edit and share your story.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Useful tool for creating photo presentations with audio and delivering them online. You can either use a computer or mobile app to capture and upload images and audio.
Morganne Ray, LCSW's curator insight,
June 27, 2013 12:39 PM
This seems like it might be a useful tool to integrate technology into Narrative Therapy. What a neat way to create a therapeutic document!
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An app in which you can take or add some photos, attached some audio or record some sounds, edit the audio to your liking then share it with your own network of followers!
Nik Peachey's insight:
Nice tool for creating a multimedia dictionary or just to get students speaking about images.
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Use ThingLink to instantly add video and text to images. Create unforgettable greetings, interactive travel photos, and capture best moments. Share images to your friends on Twitter or Facebook — and communicate in new ways.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a really useful app for mobile project work.
Tom Walton's comment,
June 24, 2013 11:20 AM
Like it a lot, but am worried that there's a lack of privacy, if we're talking about young learners.
Dan Ferreira's curator insight,
June 29, 2013 6:56 PM
I think it's great way to teach Ss the general-specific structure in writing, for example. 
John Rudkin's curator insight,
July 11, 2013 4:32 AM
Mighty useful App for all sorts of Educ exploration - and tourism.
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Nik Peachey's insight:
Really simple and useful tool for annotating videos and creating dialogue around them.
Susan Wegmann's curator insight,
June 19, 2013 11:14 AM
Video ANT - create your own ANT bed. Fantastic tool! 
EnglishWizards's curator insight,
June 19, 2013 7:45 PM
Look forward to working out how to make use of this tool.
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We builds tools for kids to code. We're working on a visual programming language for the iPad that uses modular drag-and-drop methods to let kids easily create their own computer programs and apps.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a great free iPad app to get kids interested in creating their own games and apps in a simple and entertaining way.
Stacey Py Flynn's comment,
June 16, 2013 11:28 AM
Why can't all coding be like this?? Visual learners unite! :)
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Nik Peachey's insight:
This is great tool for synchronous or asynchronous collaborative text creation and peer editing. Despite the warning it seems to be remarkably reliable.
Nik Peachey's comment,
July 18, 2013 2:09 PM
Hi Amadeu For me they are similar but different. EtherPads are useful to use for quick collaborative work and the ease of not having to get students to register etc is a real bonus (I've had nightmares with Google products, especially with international groups or while traveling abroad). I get student to use them like 'scrap paper' and then afterwards they can shift their text for final publishing. I also REALLY like the time slider as you can see how the students constructed the text.
rsplearning's comment,
July 19, 2013 8:14 AM
I just started using scoop it, and your comments demonstrate how helpful it can be! Thanks everyone! This is awesome!
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iDesktop.tv provides a really useful and user friendly service for anyone who wants to use video clips from sources like YouTube, but doesn't want their students looking around at anything unsuitable, or for anyone who has ever found a really useful clip, only to go back later and find it has moved or been removed.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a great tool for searching multiple video sharing sites and for downloading videos in various file formats.
Ken Tyler's curator insight,
August 9, 2013 8:50 AM
The future of learning requires us to have the tools and the skills of connectivity and collaboration whereby we maintain streaming sources of very relevant and rapidly processable information. This appears to be one of these tools... 
Martha Schade's curator insight,
August 13, 2013 6:20 AM
A great way to download videos from youtube... have a try with some of our training videos! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRqKz70lAgo
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Words can take your photos further. Typic is a simple and beautiful tool to write captions on your photos and turn them into great design pieces. Have fun creating cool images to share with your friends.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Nice mobile app for adding text over images. Great way to create flashcards on the move.
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The startpage that connects and organize all your favorite links, bookmarks, social networks, favorite online services, into one single beautiful interface.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is an interesting web based start page that allows you to access all of your online profiles and accounts from a single page.
Shirley Blowers's curator insight,
June 10, 2013 6:49 PM
Allows you to organize everything on one page!
Pablo Barrios's curator insight,
June 13, 2013 1:12 PM
Una opción a herramientas como Symbaloo para la creación de PLEs. Es bastante visual y tiene un para de caracteríticas que la hacen versátil. Interesante hacer una evaluación personal de la misma, para determinar su potencia, ventajas y oportunidades
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Browse pictures, and Say Something. SayRoom is an intuitive audio cloud that captures your raw emotional reactions while viewing media from various sources.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a handy tool to give students some quick listening and speaking practice. Be careful about using it with younger learners though as some reactions may be inappropriate.
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Videosci.com shares streaming science videos across the web. Play science! Under various categories videosci is a complete repository of scattered science videos
Nik Peachey's insight:
Great collection of science related videos.
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Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks like a useful website for setting up online debates and votes. There are also some interesting ones already there.
Jocelyn Gagnon's comment,
May 29, 2013 10:36 PM
Take a look to the map, very useful to find debates near you.
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Could be inspirational to reluctant readers and writers!
Could this be an unusual cool way to get your message across?
want to try this one