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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.

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This is a multidisciplinary guide on evaluating research sources, especially resources found on the World Wide Web."
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a really useful set of guidelines for evaluating web-based content and checking it's authenticity and credibility.

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E-portfolios for lifelong learning. Provides a safe, private online space to share resources, record achievements and communicate"
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a useful tool if you want to create an eportfolio with your students. It seems to have quite thorough security.

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Quickly create digital documents for viewing on a computer, tablet, or smartphone. Free yourself from the bounds of the printed page with scrolling areas, and enchant your audience with videos, galleries, and interactivity.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a really useful tool for creating in teractive documents and worksheets with embedded multimedia elements and the ability for users to collaborate and interact around content.

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Story Me is the awesome new app that lets you design personalized comic strips from your own photos. Create beautiful framed collages with speech bubbles and captions — then apply a unique cartoon filter! Turn individual images into a story in seconds.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a fantastic app to get students creating digital narrative from their own photographs.

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Word Sense is a dictionary, thesaurus, and valuable tool for matching thoughts to words. Explore word meanings and relationships."
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a really nicely designed online thesaurus that helps users to explore and define word relationships.

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Get Stage: Interactive Whiteboard and Document Camera on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews."
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a really useful free way to turn your tablet into an IWB and document camera.

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Vialogues(Video+Dialogues) is an asynchronous Video discussion tool which can be used for leveraging digital videos for learning by adding group interaction as part of the online video experience."
Nik Peachey's insight:

Great tool for creating interaction around online video. I reviewed this on my blog some time ago: Engage Students with Flipped Video Tasks http://quickshout.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/engage-students-with-flipped-video.html

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SlideIdea’s innovative widgets make slide creation an absolute breeze. Add texts, images, shapes, diagrams, or charts with a single touch.

Nik Peachey's insight:

I haven't tried this yet, but it does look like a good potential alternative to PPT.

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You can video conference, screen share, and chat. People can dial in by phone, or use their computer camera and microphone. We even record your meetings for later playback!

You can video conference, screen share, and chat. People can dial in by phone, or use their computer camera and microphone. We even record your meetings for later playback! - See more at: http://emeet.me/#sthash.GdhRqPFI.dpufYou can video conference, screen share, and chat. People can dial in by phone, or use their computer camera and microphone. We even record your meetings for later playback! - See more at: http://emeet.me/#sthash.GdhRqPFI.dpufYou can video conference, screen share, and chat. People can dial in by phone, or use their computer camera and microphone. We even record your meetings for later playback! - See more at: http://emeet.me/#sthash.GdhRqPFI.dpuf
Nik Peachey's insight:

Another free web conferencing platform. Looks good and simple to use.

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Meetings.io enables effortless video meetings. You can launch a meeting room from our homepage with no login or download, or fees required. Sign up for additional features."
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a great platform for running virtual tutorials.

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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.

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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.

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Gooru is an education focused search engine which allows you to pull together collections of your results and share them.

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Events such as movement of clouds, the rising and setting of the sun, a party with your friends, even individual activities or anything else that you can imagine. You will see them in a new way and otherwise undetectable patterns will emerge.

 

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This looks like a great free mobile app for creating timelapse videos. Great project for students or a nice way to create engaging materials.

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Moovly is an online tool that allows you to create animated videos, tutorials, explainers, presentations, infographics, video clips, display ads or e-cards."
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like an impressive way to create instructional video for free.

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Free digital magazine creation platform. Add images, photos, videos, animations and audio. Customize and publish for desktop and mobile devices."
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a great platform to get students creating their own multimedia magazines. Great project.

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Learning Ace is a 100% student-focused web destination that leverages our proprietary adaptive search and recommendation technologies and our instructor/publisher relationships to develop an insanely valuable resource to students at each learning point of their coursework. Discover, Browse and Learn.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a student focused search engne for educational materials. Once you enter your keyword or question search, you can choose they types of materials or media you want to search.

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Classmint lets anyone create annotatable, audible, beautiful notes that can be folded like paper. It also maintains automated revision list to aid in timely revision.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a great tool for note taking. A very digitally literate approach.

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Download free videos from 50+ sitesConvert Most Video Formats: mp3, mp4, wmv, flv, mov, 3gp, aviWatch free videos later on other devices: iPad, iPhone, iPod, Samsung Galaxy, HTC, Kindle Fire, Blackberry and many othersIntegrated video player to watch your videos right awaySuper easy to use and fast
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a really useful video downloader and converter. Also available for Mac at: http://www.ytddownloader.com/mac/

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Language Cloud is a platform with management tools and analytics for language instructors"
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a really useful LMS for creating and managing language focused learning activities.

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Copy is a cloud for people, friends, and companies. Use it to keep your computers in sync and your files available from anywhere and from any device. Sign up and get 15 GB FREE."
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a great free alternative to DropBox for cloud storage.

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Transfer your photos from your smartphones to your PC in a cool way"
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a very useful app if you are working with groups of students making images on phones and you want a quick way to get them onto  PC.

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Fotopedia Reporter, we're all reporters.

Nik Peachey's insight:

Great site to get students creating their own photo news stories and digital narrative. Also a nice source of reading, viewing and inspiration. They also have a great free app for iPhone and iPad

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Transform your learning potential Improve your study with our specially designed software. Sign up now. It's Free!"
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like an impressive platform to help students revise for tests and exams and generally improve their study skills.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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lettrs is the cloud and mobile platform for powering the world’s meaningful communications. Featured in TIME, Wall Street Journal, and NPR, lettrs has become known as “the correspondence cloud" for reinventing a new digital to postal system of letter writing

Nik Peachey's insight:

This company seems to be trying to revive the art of letter writing with a digital twist.

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Ever tried sending a file from one device to another?

Stop sending yourself endless emails with links and attachments. With DeskConnect, it's easy to send anything and everything between your devices.

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 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.

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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.

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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.



Create additional value by juxtaposing contrasting videos, by turning onscreen reporter of your filmed experiences, by adding a teacher's talking head to a written blackboard, and much much more.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Get 1TapNote - Notes directly on the Home Screen on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews."
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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.

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Moldiv lets you combine and edit multiple photos to make amazing collages. Moldiv has fantastic frames and lots of professional editing options. Especially Moldiv offers awesome photo effects and great decoration features like text captions and numerous stamps.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a useful picture editor with a few more features than Instagram. Great for creating collages on displaying class projects. Works well on iPad too with good quality display. The free basic editor is good, but you have to buy premium packs for some of the more complex designs.

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With Quip, you can make your edits right in the shared document, comment on a specific section, and even chat with the other authors directly while you're all making tweaks. Tracked changes show exactly how the draft has evolved.

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Zotero is a powerful, easy-to-use research tool that

helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources and then

share the results of your research."
Nik Peachey's insight:

This looks like a handy tool for students to collect their research digitally.

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Great books give families something to talk about and keep kids engaged. Research shows that kids learn more when they use educational media with adults in their life. Children also learn more when they talk about a book while reading together. Kindoma combines the best of children's learning and family communication!

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a nice idea. It enables parents or teachers to read books to their students or children using video communication.

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A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly online whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a nice simple browser based whiteboard app that runs in the browser on most devices. Would be nice to have a few more features, such as import images etc, but there is also a lot to be said for simplicity.

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Debate map visualization of: 12,000+ maps and counting! Click on the bubbles to learn more – and log-in to create free public and private maps on any topic."
Nik Peachey's insight:

I think DebateGraph is one of the best interactive and collaborative mind-mapping tools I have seen in a long time. It's a great tool to get students really thinking about problems. It's well worth watching their short intro video to really understand the possibilities. Love it! See tutorial at: http://youtu.be/32InMNjO4tQ

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Picadilo is a 100% free online photo editor that's both easy to use and powerful. Transform your photos using eye catching effects, versatile editing tools and classy textures - plus the flexibility of multiple editing windows.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a very powerful but simple to use and intuitive image editor. Really useful for creating great flashcards and image based projects.

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Kidblog is designed for K-12 teachers who want to provide each student with an individual blog. Students publish posts and participate in academic discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs and user accounts.

Nik Peachey's insight:

I've been using this very successfully on my most recent course. It's a really useful platform to get students blogging and still maintain some security and control. I really like the mobile app for it too.

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Visualize your workload like never before with DropTask, a complete reimagining of task management on the web."
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great visual tool for organising and managing tasks. It's also free and mobile friendly.

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Your school or business can now extend the benefits of Kindle to its students, employees, or customers. Whether you’re looking to distribute literature for class or use Kindle for your corporate training or incentive program, Whispercast helps you reduce the administrative cost and complexity of sending Kindle content and managing your Kindles.

 

Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great tool if you are working with class sets of Kindles or want to start a Kindle based resource centre.

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Create your own practice. Chose the grammar you want to study, decide how many questions you want to answer, then create your own test.

Nik Peachey's insight:

This app is designed to go with a grammar course book, but is free to download and can be used on its own.

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VirtualWritingTutor is a grammar checker for ESL writing. Finds common ESL spelling mistakes and grammar errors for free."
Nik Peachey's insight:

This is a great tool to get students checking their own writing and building awareness of their own errors. I particularly like the part where they can practice correcting common ESL errors (http://www.virtualwritingtutor.com/correction.php). Well worth trying out.

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Advances in Technology Enhanced Learning’ presents a range of research projects which aim to explore how to make engagement in learning (and teaching) more passionate. This interactive and experimental resource discusses innovations which pave the way to open collaboration at scale. The book introduces methodological and technological breakthroughs via twelve chapters to learners, instructors, and decision-makers in schools, universities, and workplaces.

 

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An impressive iBook for free download through iTunes.

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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.

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Some useful tools to help prompt and improve story writing.

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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/

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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.

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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.

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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."
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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.

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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.

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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."
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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.

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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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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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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.

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Great collection of ready made lessons here.

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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.

 

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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.