Memrise

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Memrise helps you learn languages with real conversations from native speakers and a variety of fun and engaging techniques.


Memrise put the fun in to learning because they know that everyone learns more when they’re having fun and engaging with the lesson.

They do this in the form of mini videos, quirky games, useful phrases and quick, toilet-break length sessions.

We’ve added a few of their videos below for you to check out, underneath the videos is the full current list of languages you can learn with Memrise.

  • French
  • Arabic
  • Spanish (Spain
  • Spanish (Mexico)
  • Mongolian
  • Slovenian
  • German
  • Dutch
  • Turkish
  • Swedish
  • Icelandic

  • Korean
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese (Portugal)
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Russian
  • Italian
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Danish

IFTTT / If This Then That

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If This Then That is unique app that allows you to link your apps and devices in new ways. For example, you can get it to automatically log all phone calls to a Google Sheet or upload any photo you put on Instagram as a native photo on Twitter.


IFTTT calls the tasks ‘recipes’, as in you put a load of different bits in to get a final outcome.

Examples of what you can do with IFTTT:

  • Get a daily text with the weather report for the day
  • Automatically log time and telephone number to Google Sheets each time you get a phone call
  • Set your phone to silent when you get to work or college
  • Upload all screenshots you take on your phone straight to Google Drive

Personally, i have a habit of putting my phone down at home in odd places then not being able to find it, or because it’s a sturdy Android device I throw it somewhere and have no idea where it’s landed. I have a recipe set up so when I ask my Google Home device ‘Where’s my phone?’, IFTTT will turn my phone on to the maximum volume and sends a call through so I can find it easily.

There are so many different possibilities with this, have a look at the video below for just 10 of them.

Duolingo

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Duolingo let’s you learn a new language, for free.


We wanted to quickly demonstrate how easy it is to get started learning a new language with Duolingo. The video to the right shows how quick it is, once the app is installed we were learning German in no time!

You can even learn Klingon and High Valyrian if you desire.

Below is a list of all the languages you can learn on Duolingo:

  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Italian
  • Korean
  • Chinese
  • Russian
  • Portuguese (Brazillian)
  • Turkish
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Hindi
  • Greek
  • High Valyrian
  • Irish
  • Latin
  • Polish
  • Hebrew
  • Norwegian (Bokmal)
  • Arabic
  • Vietnamese
  • Hawaiian
  • Danish
  • Romanian
  • Klingon
  • Czech
  • Indonesian
  • Welsh
  • Swahili
  • Najo
  • Hungarian
  • Ukranian
  • Esperanto

Desmos

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Desmos is an online, free, graph tool that allows you to plot functions, create tables and much more..


Explore math with Desmos. Graph functions, plot data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and much more – for free!

It’s not just serious stuff over at Desmos, you can plot mathematical functions to make all sorts of images.

TLPhysics

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TLPhysics is the sibling to TLMaths. With over 200 videos, Sarah Varley will take you through AQA A-Level Physics in bite size chunks.

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TLMaths

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If you’re a maths student at Barton, TLMaths probably doesn’t need any introduction.

If you don’t know what TLMaths is though, it is 3,000 videos created by our very own Jack Brown to help everyone teach themselves Maths.

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Google Scholar

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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Put simply, it’s a Google Search just for scholarly articles.

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Mentimeter

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Mentimeter allows presenters to interact with their audience with real-time voting.


Mentimeter is an interactive presentation app that allows you to receive real-time feedback whilst you are giving your presentation. The best use of this is that you can ask questions in the presentation and get results straight away.

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YourHour

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YourHour is a mobile addiction tracker and controller that gives useage reports and challenges to help combat mobile addiction.


YourHour is another one of our wellbeing apps, designed to help you curb smartphone addiction.

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HabitBull

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HabitBull is a companion app that helps you keep track of your day, break habits and set yourself routines.


HabitBull isn’t strictly ‘Digital Learning’ but it’s important to look after your wellbeing and this is a simple yet powerful tool to keep track of your day to day routines and help you break your unwanted habits.

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