Words, Images, and Sounds to tell interactive stories : all in Ren'py

Teachers and educators are all the time looking for ways and means to improve the delivery of their lessons. Today we are presenting a different answer. It’s Pen’Py.

Pen'Py is a visual novel engine – used by thousands of creators from around the world – that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories that run on computers and mobile devices. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games!

It should brighten up our language lessons! Students could be part and parcel of the story writing where they can show their talents and skills. If students were to take part, it won’t be boring, but quite interesting!

If one wants to go for documentation or to download it, one should go here;

You tube videos;

Examples of how it was used;

Anki : Helping you to remember things!

We would like to help anybody who wants to memorise any type of content: students, parents and teachers.

Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it's a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.

Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless.

For example:

• Learning a language
• Studying for medical and law exams
• Memorizing people's names and faces
• Brushing up on geography
• Mastering long poems
• Even practising guitar chords!

Besides, one can have several other features such as synchronization, flexibility, Media-Rich, Fully extensible and can handle decks of more than 100,000 cards!!

It is and open source and it can be used on any operating system!

If you want to download the program, please go here.

YouTube tutorials, please go here.

More tutorials are found here.

Forum where you can write about your challenges etc….go here.

Zotero

How many times it happens that we're reading, listening or watching a video on the internet and we wish to save it for later use? Others do collect all these kind of media but then they'll forget where they had put them!

We need something free, open source and easy to use. Well, zotero is a great friend with everybody especially teachers and students. Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.

Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content in your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. Whether you're searching for a preprint on arXiv.org, a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times, or a book from your university library catalog, Zotero has you covered with support for thousands of sites.

Zotero collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of your library, enabling you to find exactly what you're looking for with just a few keystrokes. It is available for windows, mac and linux.

For downloads click here. For help click here.