Oxford Podcasts is home to over 9000 public lectures, teaching material, interviews and a lot more. Content is regularly added to the site including public lectures covering the environmental and scientific challenges of the 21st century.
It’s not all audio though, they also have video and written content too. You can download the complete First Folio of William Shakespeare, with its original spelling from 1623, this includes The Tempest and A Midsommer Nights Dreame.
BBC Sounds is a streaming media app that hosts thousands of podcasts, live radio and archived radio shows. Podcasts range from comedy to educational to sport.
BBC Podcasts started back in 2004 and since then have gone from strength to strength. Each month around 63 million podcasts are downloaded from the BBC, with 26 million of those being just by the UK!
Previously you had to use either a BBC Podcasts app or BBC iPlayer Radio app but now everything is in one app, BBC Sounds. This includes live radio, catch-up radio and every BBC podcast available.
MyBib is a simple citation tool that allows you to store references for future.
MyBib is a one-stop shop for all your citation needs. It’s clean, simple and very intuitive to use. It stands for My Bibliography.
While Cite This For Me is one of the best-known citation tools, I found MyBib so much easier to use, it comes with some nice extra features and it’s not covered in ads.
The best bit? It’s 100% free!
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Cite This For Me allows you to automatically create website citations at the click of a button.
Cite This For Me is a citation tool to help you generate references for research in your writing.
The basic functions of this tool are free to use and doesn’t take too long to get used to.
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Oxford Dictionaries has over 350,000 words from the English language.
Oxford Dictionaries are generally considered the go-to resource for spelling, definitions and synonyms. Their website provides free access to the largest current English language dictionaries and thesaurus as well as a host of helpful tips on grammar, usage, spelling and more. It also includes audio pronunciations of words too.
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Evernote is a note-taking application that also allows you to create lists and jot down ideas.
Evernote, as its name suggests, is a note taking application, but that barely scratches the surface of what it can do. Not only does it synchronise across all of my devices – the desktop I’m writing this on, my Chromebook, mobile and tablet – but the notes can include images (imported or captured using the camera on my mobile) and documents in a variety of formats. Evernote indexes all of these notes for easy search, and it even indexes text inside images or PDFs.
You can read the Evernote website for a full list of all the features. I just wanted to go through and outline a few uses and how I use them to help organise my own time and work. Hopefully this will give you a few ideas to improve the way you organise your own wealth of information!
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Google Expeditions brings lessons to life using AR and VR straight from a mobile device.
Google Expeditions is an immersive education app that allows teachers and students to explore the world through over 1000 virtual-reality (VR) and 100 augmented-reality (AR) tours. You can swim with sharks, visit outer space, and more without leaving the classroom, with or without a VR device such as Google Cardboard.
Built for the classroom and small group use, Google Expeditions allows a teacher acting as a “guide” to lead classroom-sized groups of “explorers” through collections of 360° and 3D images while pointing out interesting sights along the way.
Expeditions can be installed to Android and iOS devices.
