Tools for Teachers & Learners
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Tools for Teachers & Learners
A collection of web and mobile based tools to help teachers and learners exploit digital resources
Curated by Nik Peachey
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My Facecard

This is a handy app for creating a digital business card. The app allows you to instantly transfer your contact detail and information to another phone.

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June 11, 2012 11:23 AM
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Socialgimme.com | Create amazing pages at lightning speed!

Socialgimme.com | Create amazing pages at lightning speed! | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a handy tool for creating webpages, eZines, eNewsletters or simple blogs. Very easy to use and has good social nework integration. Create upto 5 projects for free.

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June 11, 2012 5:23 AM
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SeeMail - Multimedia Messaging App

SeeMail - Multimedia Messaging App | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a great messaging tool if you like to send people pictures. You can also add audio to the pictures to go with your message.

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June 9, 2012 3:50 AM
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Create Animated "Photo Story Books" and Publish them!

Create Animated "Photo Story Books" and Publish them! | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a nice free app for creating animated photo albums on your iPhone or iPad. 

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June 7, 2012 5:12 AM
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The Social Timeline - Intoloop

The Social Timeline - Intoloop | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This looks like a great tool to use over the summer holidays to create a digital record of your summer and to keep your English active. It could also be a useful tool to use as an ePortfolio of your learning.

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June 5, 2012 3:58 AM
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croak.it! - Create and Share Audio

croak.it! - Create and Share Audio | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a great tool for creating short audio files which can be posted to Facebook, Twitter or shared by email. The tool runs in the browser but there are also apps for iPhone and Android. In the settings you can also change the speed and pitch of the wudio file. Very Useful.

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May 31, 2012 7:12 AM
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Video Annotation Tool [Academic Technology Services, UMN]

Video Annotation Tool [Academic Technology Services, UMN] | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is an online tool for adding time line based text annotations to online video. The tool then converts these to and FLV file and sends them to you. Great for instructional video projects.

Glenn Weidner's comment, June 1, 2012 8:33 AM
Too confusing. Not much written on the website. 14 minute instructional video in the application itself is too long. Tried it with 2 YouTube videos. Nice idea, but maybe a bit premature for teaching in a practical setting.
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May 28, 2012 4:12 AM
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Create professional resumes online for free - CV creator - CV Maker

Create professional resumes online for free - CV creator - CV Maker | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Most of us need a CV at some point in our lives, so hy not start creating one online now. CVMaker is a really handy tool that takes you through the process of gathering all the information you need for your CV.

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May 23, 2012 2:58 AM
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inClass - The last school app you'll ever need

inClass - The last school app you'll ever need | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a great free app for managing your courses. You can keep track of schedules and classes, but best of all you can take notes using text, voice, images or video.

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May 21, 2012 3:59 AM
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TalkMiner

TalkMiner | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Search and find specific words and phrases within a video. Great tool for finding examples of pronunciation or finding videos for quotes.

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May 15, 2012 3:02 AM
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Many Eyes

Many Eyes | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a useful site for creating graphic visualisations of data. It's very useful for creating things like infographics by just importing your own data and selecting a type of graph.

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May 11, 2012 4:16 AM
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Foreign Languages - how to video tutorials

Foreign Languages - how to video tutorials | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This site has a wide range of videos which can help you learn a variety of languages from English to Vietnamese.

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May 9, 2012 6:40 AM
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PDFVue: Online Tool For Editing PDF Files Online

PDFVue: Online Tool For Editing PDF Files Online | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

PDFVue is a useful tool for editing and commenting on PDF documents. You can annotate them and add sticky note comments etc.

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June 14, 2012 2:57 AM
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Easy File Transfer

Easy File Transfer | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a really easy to use quick tool for transferring a file from one person to another. Just drag the file (up to 2GB) onto the page and it creates a unique URL for the file.

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June 11, 2012 11:18 AM
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Subtitling: caption, translate, subtitle and transcribe video.

Subtitling: caption, translate, subtitle and transcribe video. | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Add subtiles, transcriptions and captions to videos.

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June 11, 2012 4:14 AM
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Tinychat Video Conferencing for iPhone and iPad

This is a great free download for anyone who wants to do group video conferencing on iPad or iPhone. Great way to manage a distance study group.

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June 8, 2012 3:33 AM
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Speaking Spelling Bee

This is a great free app for improving your spelling and pronunciation. Unlike most spelling apps it also has sound.

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June 6, 2012 5:41 AM
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Plagiarism checking tool

Plagiarism checking tool | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a useful free plagiarism checker. It's always good to check your assignments, just in case you missed referencing a quote.

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June 4, 2012 5:29 AM
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Micro podcasting

Micro podcasting | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a great tool for integrating voice into your social networks or for finding small audio recordings of different languages.

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May 29, 2012 7:05 AM
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SomNote - Friendly Cloud Note

SomNote - Friendly Cloud Note | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a really useful free note taking app which synchornises across devices. You can also add atachments to notes and organise them. Very useful.

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May 24, 2012 6:55 AM
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Meetings.io

Meetings.io | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a great browser based tool for creating instant video conferencing rooms. Just create a room then share the URL. Looks like it works on Android phones and iPhone support is coming. Great free communication and tutoring tool.

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May 22, 2012 11:45 AM
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An App That Will Read Newsfeeds

An App That Will Read Newsfeeds | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

SpokenLayer is a very handy app if you don't like trying to read from a mobile screen. The app will read to you from a rage of newsfeeds. Very useful for listening pracyice.

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May 15, 2012 6:38 AM
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Create a Quick Video Poll

Create a Quick Video Poll | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This simple tool enables you to create a quick poll with a single question based around two or more video clips. You can then share the poll online and see which answer is most popular.

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May 12, 2012 6:03 AM
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Nik's QuickShout: A collocation thesaurus concordancer that produces word clouds!

Nik's QuickShout: A collocation thesaurus concordancer that produces word clouds! | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

The word combinations option produces a great list of collocations for the word, and what's better, if you click on the collocates, you get the kind of list that a concordancer will produce, with the expressions highlighted in context.

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May 10, 2012 6:57 AM
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Telecommuting and Remote Collaboration Platform

Telecommuting and Remote Collaboration Platform | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

VersaHub is a platform for remote work teams and telecommuters. It provides remote collaboration, task management, telepresence and performance tracking features. It is potentially a very useful tool for creating study groups. Using the free plan you can create groups of up to 3 students.

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