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Write Reader - Let your pupils create multimedia E-books

Web Address: https://www.writereader.com/en

In their own words:  "For more than 200 years we have taught our children how to write and read in the same way. Still, every fifth child today is functional illiterate. Being both parents and passionate teachers, this made us think: Okay, if children can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. And by creating WriteReader we have done just that. Children learn by being motivated, and they are not motivated by putting A, B and C’ in different orders; they are being motivated by telling stories about dinosaurs, Christiano Ronaldo, skateboarding and pink, fluffy unicorns. So we let children write books about their big passions without letting correct spelling slow them down or kill the motivation. A teacher or parent then writes the correct spelling, so focus is on comparing, not correcting. Actually, this is pretty much the way we teach our children how to talk.

Our dream is to change lives by changing writing from being a potentially losing game into a rewarding experience where children share and become proud writers. Be a WriteReader – Just go ahead!"

Weather Lab - See what the weather is like in America

Web Address: https://ssec.si.edu/weather-lab

In their own words: "Weather Lab is a tool to help visualize how North America’s weather is formed. This lab is designed to model the complex interactions between air masses and ocean currents, but like all models, it represents probable outcomes. Each prediction you make is for possible outcomes during Spring."

Beautiful Audio Editor - Edit audio anywhere.

Web Address: https://beautifulaudioeditor.appspot.com/

About: "An experimental audio editor.
Copy. Snip. Pan. Record. Flexibly fade volume with envelopes. Apply and move effects (filters, compression, etc.) amongst tracks. And more.
Edit while playing for quick feedback.
Works online or offline.
Create and organize projects in Google Drive. Edit projects anywhere within Chrome or Firefox.
Store projects online or offline (in a local file to load later)."

Synth - Podcasting in byte-sized increments.

Web Address: https://gosynth.com/

In their own words: "256 second audio or video soundbytes that you can share anywhere, discover easily, interact with and listen to back-to-back. Free."

Cartoons Public Domain Movies - Feature Films in the Public Domain

Web Address: http://publicdomainmovie.net/

About: On this website, you can find hundreds of films which can be legally watched for free.

National Geographic 101 - A wide collection of videos focusing on nature and science

Web Address: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLivjPDlt6ApRpidjp1zjROOCKru-89Q1_

In their own words: Explore and experience some of nature's most intriguing phenomena in the 101 series, a science class unlike any other.

Pexels Videos - Find free stock footage for Chroma key (green screen) backgrounds

Web Address: https://videos.pexels.com/

In their own words: "Pexels Videos offers completely free videos. All videos are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This means you can edit or change the videos and use them free for personal and even for commercial projects. All without asking for permission or setting a link to the source. So that attribution is not required. With our swiftly growing database of videos, you are guaranteed to find the perfect footage for your website header, product promotion, or anything else. Every video we have available is free for any purpose - including commercial. This guarantees that you will be saving the hundreds of dollars better spent promoting your brand."

Patches - Create your own VR worlds

Web Address: https://patches.vizor.io/

About: Patches is a visual programming editor for building WebVR and WebGL experiences. With over 350 patches, ranging from low-level programming, loops, variables and arrays to colour pickers and interaction triggers, Patches is a powerful and flexible modular system for building complex webVR projects.

Google Tour Creator - Create your own VR tour.

Web Address: https://vr.google.com/tourcreator/

About: This allows anyone to create their own VR tour using imagery from Google's Street View or their own 360-degree photos. The new app is designed to work with Google Cardboard and Google's existing VR “field trips” app Expeditions

Scholastic Character Scrapbook - Analyze the characters in any book!

Web Address: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scrapbook/

In their own words: Use this reader's response activity to analyze the characters in any book. Print and collect your scrapbook pages.

TimeLine JS

Web Address: https://timeline.knightlab.com

In their own words: "TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet."

Mission MapQuest - A geography "map game" creation tool

Web Address: http://www.classtools.net/mapgame/game.php

About: This lets teachers set a series of clues that pupils need to follow to identify places around the world.

Google Arts & Culture

Web Address: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/

In thier own words: "EXPLORE COLLECTIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD WITH GOOGLE ARTS & CULTURE, CREATED BY GOOGLE CULTURAL INSTITUTE."

Go Noodle - Hundreds of videos that activate children's bodies & brains.

Web Address: https://www.gonoodle.com/

In thier own words: "GoNoodle helps teachers and parents get kids moving with short interactive activities. Desk-side movement helps kids achieve more by keeping them engaged and motivated throughout the day."

Open Shot Video Editor - A free, award winning, video editor.

Web Address: https://start.me/en/education

In their own words: "OpenShot™ was created in 2008, in an effort to build a free, simple, open-source video editor for Linux. It is now available on Linux, Mac, and Windows, has been downloaded millions of times, and continues to grow as a project!"

OBS Studio - Everything you need to live stream and record video using multiple sources

Web Address: https://obsproject.com/

About: "Using OBS Studio you can not only record directly from your webcam and microphone, you can also... add in existing videos and still images, capture a window or portion of your screen, and much more."

Nimbus Screenshot & Video Recorder

Web Address: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nimbus-screenshot-screen/bpconcjcammlapcogcnnelfmaeghhagj?hl=en

In thier own words: "Screen Capture FULL Web page or any part. Edit screenshots. Record screencasts - record video from your screen.Capture the web page, either part of it or the whole browser window, edit your screenshots in a very user-friendly interface. Record screencasts - record video from your screen."

Click to spin - Random pupil name picker

Web Address: https://www.classtools.net/random-name-picker/

About: This is a free service that lets you create a 'wheel of fortune' with pupils names on it.  You can then spin the wheel to pick a pupil at random.

How to make self marking tests and quizzes in Google Docs Forms

Web Address: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/7032287?hl=en

About: You can now create self marking tests using just Google Docs Forms with no extra add ons.

This page will guide you through the whole process.

iTALC - Lets educators view and control their learners computers.

Web Address: http://italc.sourceforge.net/

In their own words: "iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows XP, Vista and 7 and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!

In contrast to widely used commercial equivalent software, iTALC is free! This means you do not have to pay for expensive licenses or things like that. Furthermore the source-code is freely available and you're free in changing the software to fit your needs as long as you respect the terms of iTALC's license (GPL). Freedom in two ways!"

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