Product Reviews

ThingLink. 

ThingLink allows teachers and learners to easily create, collect and share interactive images and videos. Start with a base image or video and easily add links to other web resources – information pages, audio recordings or videos.

Zoom. 

Zoom has many innovative features that can help you to deliver engaging online lessons. You can use the chat feature, use video, share your screen and record lessons. You can also annotate your screen using the whiteboard feature.

ChatterPix. 

Use ChatterPix to give a voice to your pictures and bring them to life. Even reluctant speakers will have fun creating the audio to make their images talk with this engaging and easy-to-use tool.

VEO. 

Record, watch and tag videos of your lessons. Use VEO to identify and share what works in your classroom and to learn from what other teachers are doing. VEO’s adaptive tagging system helps you take control of classroom observations and make them work for you.

Newspaper Club: ARTHR. 

Produce professional-looking newspapers with your class.

An attractive layout tool for learners to make a free, professional-looking newspaper. Learners can practise writing and digital skills in a creative way and teachers can print or publish their work and put it on display.

Socrative. 

Flexible, free, easy-to-use assessment tool.

Socrative is a formative assessment tool that helps teachers and learners to assess learning and progress.

Ruby Rei. 

Brilliant adventure game for language learners.

Ruby Rei feels exciting and different — because it is! It’s an adventure game for language learners, which feels like a step...

Storybird. 

An innovative, inspiring tool to create stories individually or in groups.

Storybird is easy to use and can transform learners’ experiences of reading and creative writing.

Binumi. 

A cool video-creation tool.

Binumi gives you a chance to bring video creation into the classroom. You’ll probably have to pay to get the most out of it, but it provides a motivating, worthwhile experience.

Padlet. 

An excellent collaboration tool for teachers and learners.

Padlet is an extremely easy-to-use tool that allows learners to collaborate online, share images, links, documents, videos and voice recordings. And it’s free!

LyricsTraining. 

Ideal for music-loving learners.

If your learners spend a lot of time listening to music, then this is an ideal site to send them to. LyricsTraining is easy to use, and good for self-study – mainly for older learners.

LearningApps.org. 

Use, adapt or create interactive activities for any stage of a lesson.

LearningApps.org is a versatile tool for learners, teachers and teacher trainers who want a variety of activities to teach, learn and practise the full range of language systems (grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation) and language skills (reading listening, speaking and writing).

Wordwall. 

A fun and easy way to extend and consolidate vocabulary.

Wordwall offers teachers a quick and easy way to extend and consolidate vocabulary with fun practice.

Quizlet. 

An efficient, engaging flashcard tool.

Create flashcards to learn and review vocabulary or topic content; match language to text, images, sounds and video; promote learner independence and autonomy...

Memrise. 

A fun, efficient memorisation tool for the classroom and beyond.

Fun exercises to learn and practise languages and lots more. Choose or create a course, or let your learners pick one to work on at their own pace, on a topic of their choice!