Tools for Teachers & Learners

This is a useful tool to help you transcibe audio files / interviews. It opens a simple audio player with basic keyboard controls so that you can rewind as you type.

Useful site for studying idioms. It gives simple and accurate definitions to a good range of idioms.

Label 59 is an online browser based application that lets you label any image interactively. With its rich annotation toolset. The free version allows you to create upto 10 slides with interactive features. This is a nice tool for adding interactivity to images.

This is a very simple tool to quickly get images hosted online. Clipica lets you paste pictures to the web! Upload and host images for free by pasting them right into your browser.

Hackpad is a simple to use real time collaborative wiki creator. It allows you to create very simple medi rich web pages which can then be edited by groups of people in real time from various locations. Simply link te pages together to create more complex wiki structures. Also woks on iPad.

This is a really useful tool to help develop your digital study skills. You can take notes and highlight specific parts of a web based text as you browse. You can sort your notes and links into collections and share these socially. Great tool.

It is our role as teachers to help students develop the skills to problem solve independently and collaboratively use 21st-century skills while not relying on technology to do all of the thinking for them. Just because these students are digital natives, does not mean that they do not need guidance to navigate the digital world–both in terms of learning how to discern important and relevant information from a large swath of data, and also to be able to inquire and solve problems that take time, thought, and energy.

Download Youtube videos and save in formats suitable for a range of mobile devices and tablets.

This is a useful easy to use tool for creating online magazines with images and video embedded. Not for use by people under 13 years old and they do claim righte to use any images etc that you upload. Still handy for creating a visually pleasing online magazine.

MindMaple is a really useful mind mapping software for Windows PCs that you can download and use to brainstorm topics for assignments, create notes or make your own vocabulary charts. Great for organising and sharing your thoughts.

This is a really elegant tool for creating e-Portfolios. It can display web based materials as well as files from your computer. Really nice way to showcase your talents.

This is a useful app to help you read web pages. It pulls out the main content of the page and gets rid of the distractions and advertising around the content. It also enables you to save articles to read at a later date. A really handy free tool.