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My 10 Favorite Free Online-Tools for Teaching

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The free online-tools I often use in my classes as a language & communication teacher and trainer.

EclipseCrossword. LearningApps. Pearltrees. Save bookmarks, documents, files, ebooks, photos, videos, notes and more. Organize them into meaningful collections. Discover and share millions of contents on your favorite topics. With Pearltrees, organize all your interests anywhere, anytime! Dedicated versions of Pearltrees also exist for schools and entreprises. Media says:"The most elegant and visual way of collecting and sharing online content". Pearltrees can be useful in many situations: Personal life: Tech enthusiast? Work: On Pearltrees you can collaborate with your colleagues to manage knowledge efficiently, mutualize best practices, and share notes across your entire company.

Education: Pearltrees is now one of the most used tools by teachers and students. Socrative. Story Dice - a creative storytelling tool from Dave Birss. As you can see above, you get five story dice (or nine dice, if you prefer), each with a random image on it. Your job is quite simply to turn these prompts into a story.

I recommend you try to work with the order they appear on the screen but if you’re finding it tough, you can do some swapsies. You also don’t need to take the image literally. You can use the dice metaphorically or as representations of other concepts. For example, a slice of pizza could represent food in general, cutting a slice out of something, Italy, gooiness, a chef and a heap of other more obscure things. The job of the dice is not necessarily to provide you with literal objects to work with but concepts to nudge your thinking in fresh directions. You may just want to dive in as soon as you see them, working from left to right as you try to incorporate each image into your yarn. But let me give you an example. Tagxedo. Wooclap - An interactive platform that makes learning awesome.