Tools for Teachers & Learners
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A collection of web and mobile based tools to help teachers and learners exploit digital resources
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Select & Speak: An Easy To Use Text To Speech Extension [Chrome]

Select & Speak: An Easy To Use Text To Speech Extension [Chrome] | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Select and Speak is a handy extension for Google Chrome that allows users to listen to text from almost any website. The extension has a list of voices (accents) to choose from; you can choose any of the voices that you recognize the clearest and the easiest.

Ove Christensen's comment February 10, 2012 8:08 AM
Works very fine in English - Useless in Danish and probably all other languages beside English
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February 7, 2012 2:54 AM
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Timeline Movie Maker

Timeline Movie Maker | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This free site enables you to create a ovie from your Facebook timeline. This is a great way to create a digital narrative of your life since you joined Facebook.

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February 3, 2012 3:02 AM
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Wording - bab.la

Wording - bab.la | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a great site to help you with prepositions and sentence structure. Just type in the beginning of the sentence and it will offer you options for the next word in the sentence.

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January 31, 2012 5:48 AM
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Random Words By POS

Random Words By POS | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a really useful tool for testing your own vocabulary. Just generate random word lists and then check to see how many of the words you know.

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January 26, 2012 4:05 PM
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Becoming an eTeacher

Becoming an eTeacher | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This course is in five parts, preceded by an introduction video (to the right). You can preview the modules to see which of them you want or need to complete on its own, or you can complete them all one-by-one in your own time, at your own pace. If you complete them all, we suggest you complete them in order, beginning with Module 1.

Ove Christensen's comment January 27, 2012 6:31 AM
There is no such thing as an eTeacher - only good and less good teachers. And some use more digital tools than others.
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January 17, 2012 9:04 AM
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Screen Draw :: Add-ons for Firefox

Screen Draw :: Add-ons for Firefox | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a useful plugin for Firefox that allows you to draw over web pages and then take and share screen shots of the page. Useful for creating and illustrating 'how to' type documents.

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January 13, 2012 11:45 AM
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Photo Effects - Online Artistic Free Photo effects

Photo Effects - Online Artistic Free Photo effects | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is an online photo editor for adding a range of different effects to your images. Integrates with Facebook for upload and save too.

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January 12, 2012 3:16 AM
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QR voice

QR voice | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a useful tool that allows you to 'embed' voice messages into QR Codes. This means that you can print up short message on paper or add them to websites for people to scan.

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January 3, 2012 4:41 AM
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Movie360:My Movies,My Life

This is a very impressive free app for iPhone etc which enhances any videos you create on your mobile device. It's a little like the Instagram of video. Really useful to enhance your videos.

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December 31, 2011 3:45 AM
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Skitch -Screen Grabbing and Annotation

Skitch -Screen Grabbing and Annotation | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Skitch is a fantastic tool for MAC users, now you can also use it on iPad / iPhone, Android etc. It's free to download and it enables you to take screenshots from iPad etc and annotate them for sharing online. Great tool.

Abilio 's comment December 31, 2011 10:44 AM
Unfortunately I haven´t got a Mac. It looks great, though.Tks anyway.My best wishes for 2012.
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December 29, 2011 2:13 PM
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mySchoolNotebook.com

mySchoolNotebook.com | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a free tool for taking notes either online or using a mobile app. There is a free and premium version, but you have to register through facebook.

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December 20, 2011 2:21 AM
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FrazeIt

FrazeIt | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Find phrases and see how they are used in context. This phrase search engine can access multiple languages and can also find words and phrases  in famous quotes.

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December 13, 2011 8:50 AM
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vReveal Video Enhancement Software

vReveal Video Enhancement Software | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Free video editing and enhancement software to download and instal.

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February 7, 2012 3:01 AM
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IDroo Whiteboard for Skype

IDroo Whiteboard for Skype | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a very useful free interactive whiteboard that works along side Skype for online teaching and tutoring.

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February 6, 2012 10:46 AM
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Create a printable summary of your video with Vidinotes!

Create a printable summary of your video with Vidinotes! | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This website enables you to upload a video and convert it into a series of images that you can print to make notes on. This is very useful for taking notes about video lectures or information rich documentary type programs.

Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s comment, February 7, 2012 12:16 PM
This looks great, but when I clicked "Get Started" I got an error message from PayPal saying that it couldn't process because of a problem with the website! I couldn't find costs anywhere on the website, either. Do you know any more?
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February 2, 2012 7:26 AM
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iPiccy.com - Online image editing

iPiccy.com - Online image editing | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

iPiccy is a very simple easy to use, feature rich online image editor. You can start using it without even registering. Very useful for simple cropping, adding effects or more complex edits.

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January 29, 2012 4:25 AM
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Free Online Grammar Checker, Proofreader, and Writing Coach

Free Online Grammar Checker, Proofreader, and Writing Coach | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a great way to improve your essay and assignment writing. This tool will check your grammar, show you any areas where you may have plagiarised content and make suggestions for improving your writing style.

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January 26, 2012 9:57 AM
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Free Video Converter for Windows and Mac | WonTube

Free Video Converter for Windows and Mac | WonTube | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a free software tool which runs on MAC or Windows and allows you to download and convert videos to a range of formats suitable to run on mobile or desktop devices.

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January 17, 2012 5:20 AM
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Make online & mobile flashcards & notes

Make online & mobile flashcards & notes | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a really useful tool for creating digital flashcards and study notes. You can also download the free app for use on iPad, iPhone etc.

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January 12, 2012 10:24 AM
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Conjugation English Verbs

Conjugation English Verbs | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a very easy to use tool for conjugating verbs. Just type in the base form of the verb and click to see the verb in all its various forms. It also works with a range of other languages.

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January 12, 2012 3:13 AM
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PDFescape - Free PDF Editor

PDFescape - Free PDF Editor | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a really useful tool that allows you to create and annotate on PDF documents. This is really useful if you want to fill in PDF forms without printing them up tc.

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December 31, 2011 7:35 AM
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WebVideoFetcher.com - Download and Convert videos directly from Youtube, Facebook, Google, Metacafe and more. Instant Online Video Converter.

WebVideoFetcher.com - Download and Convert videos directly from Youtube, Facebook, Google, Metacafe and more. Instant Online Video Converter. | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This is a very versatile video downloader. Very useful.

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December 29, 2011 2:31 PM
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Grammarly - world's most accurate grammar checker and automated proofreader

Grammarly - world's most accurate grammar checker and automated proofreader | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

This site has a very impressive grammar checker. It not only checks the accuracy of your grammar but also makes suggestions for possible improvements. It can really help to boost your confidence to use something like this before submitting papers etc. It also checks for plagiarism.

Abilio 's comment December 29, 2011 5:35 PM
It looks handy .
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December 22, 2011 3:53 AM
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NOWBOX for iPad

NOWBOX is a free iPad app that makes using YouTube on the iPad a much more userfriendly experience. It allows for much more customisation of user experience to. A handy free app.

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December 15, 2011 9:55 AM
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iPadian

iPadian | Tools for Teachers & Learners | Scoop.it

Want to try an iPad, but don't have one? Now you can download iPadian to your Windows PC and see what it's all about.

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