Ed Tech Crew

Th9s is a list of useful tools if you are using Android devices with students in class. It is a collection of science apps curated specifically for elementary students. When using these apps, young learners will get to explore and learn about different science topics in fun, engaging and challenging ways.

"Every student in every school at every level should be taught how to code. They need this skill not because they'll all go into it as a career but because it impacts on every career in the 21st-century world. Any country recognizing that will benefit in the long term." There is an annotated list of resources that can be used to teach programming to every student at any age.

Formative wants to encourage students to learn from feedback and corrections. teachers can watch in real time as students answer questions and can go in to give assistance.This allows students to feel that they are receiving one-to-one attention. It also offers way for teachers to provide personalized comments outside the classroom. The tool with Maths and Science focused subjects..

"We are experimenting with visual ways in which we can enhance people's engagement with language. By fusing the information we can obtain from corpus searches, concordance outputs and word clouds we are aiming to enable and encourage people to notice and wander through the words they read, write and speak."

Text Adventure game based on a Wikipedia article on a geographical location that you choose.

create flipbook animations online!

"Through the Great 78 Project the Internet Archive has begun to digitize 78rpm discs for preservation, research, and discovery with the help of George Blood, L.P.."

"Wick is a free browser-based toolkit for creating small interactive things for the Internet. With Wick, you can create games, animations, and everything in between. Your creations can run on any device with a web browser - that means mobile too. And since Wick lives in the browser, you don't have to download any extra software to use it! "

"CREATE ZOOMABLE STORIES FROM YOUR BIG IMAGES Discover a new way to interact with high-resolution images and get your audiences engaged."

Explore the database, then "Design your own infographics with free JPL images and data! Click "Create" to get started, then share your creations."

Set of resources to assist in colour choice and use - RGBs, codes, palettes, picker, names etc

Education Research Reading Room podcast from Ollie Lovell

"With the InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder, you can create mind maps and flowcharts of almost unlimited size, which are displayed partially by the program. This allows you to organize all your ideas and knowledge in a browsable cross-linked chart and memorize them by the help of the flashcards method. You can even create complex process charts and decision trees just as well."

3D Mind-mapping App - Free to install on Windows Mac Linux Android and iPad

Interesting, trying to figure out if I would want to use it for a presentation that involves stakeholders.

Design your own colour schemes and palettes with the help of Paletton

"Create your own free website. Unlimited creativity, zero ads."

"This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1536 genres by Spotify. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.   Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like."

Totally cool share, showing it to my data visualizations students.

Ethical (?) url shortener

"Gravit Designer is a full featured free vector design app right at your fingertip."

"Professional-grade podcast hosting at a price you choose"