ASSESSMENT TOOLS

BLOGS &
WIKIS

CATALOGS & STORES

CHAT & SOCIAL NETWORKS

COOL TECH TOOLS

GAME, PUZZLE, TEST & WORKSHEET MAKERS

MISCELLANEOUS

ON-LINE TUTORING

PODCASTS

SMARTBOARDS

TELEVISION

DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION

LANGUAGE LAB & VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS

aPPS

ASSESSMENT

Assessment Training Online (oral proficiency) free course

World Language Assessment: publications, videos & guides

Automated Oral Proficiency Test (Pearson/Versant)

Computer Adaptive Placement Test

BLOGS & WIKIS

Edublogs

Blogger

Wikispaces

Wiki Spot

Language Teachers Wiki - place where language teachers collaborate and share ideas

Creative Language Class

CATALOGS

www.teachersdiscovery.com: catalog of foreign language supplies 

www.DiversityStore.com: catalog of language/ethnic supplies

COOL TECH TOOLS

Audacity: opensource recorder and file converter 

Freecorder.com/: video download, audio recorder, media converter

Yakitome: convert text to speech

Skype: video chat

PollEverywhere.com

Wordle.net: generating word clouds

xtranormal.com: enter text to create animated movies

VoiceThread: A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

Sanako Speak! : language-learning activities outside clasroom or laboratory

Lingt Classroom: Create online assignments that make engaging and assessing
spoken performance as natural as giving out a worksheet; Make oral exams that take a fraction of the time to administer and assess. Perfect for IB and AP preparation; Offer targeted feedback to individual responses to maximize student improvement; Incorporate video and images to create media and culture-rich exercises; Archive all your assignments and students' responses to reuse next time and track individual improvement.

Hootsuite: update Facebook and Twitter simultaneously

Cheating translators: determine if a translation was machine-generated.

Speak Everywhere: "Speak Everywhere (SE), developed in the Center for Technology-Enhanced Language Learning in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Purdue University, is an online oral practice/instruction/assessment platform for foreign language teaching. It dramatically increases your students' oral practice opportunities by making it possible to give speaking homework."

Tech Tools for Teachers: create review games, etc.

GAME, PUZZLE, WORKSHEET & TEST MAKERS

http://l.georges.online.fr/tools/cloze.html : create your own CLOZE test

Creating Crosswords and Other Puzzles 

www.teachers-pet.org: An add-on for Microsoft Word. Text can be turned into educational games.

Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning from CLEAR

JeopardyLabs            jeopardylabs.com

Left to Right/Top to Bottom: Games and activities for language learning

MISCELLANEOUS

Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant Program
"The Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program brings teaching assistants in 33 languages from nearly 50 countries around the world to U.S. colleges and universities to study and to teach foreign languages, assist in language instruction and serve as cultural ambassadors on campus."

Fulbright Occasional Lecture Fund: The Occasional Lecturer Fund enables Fulbright Visiting Scholars who are currently in the U.S. to accept guest lecturing invitations at colleges and universities.

TeacherTube

EDsitement: Lesson plans in language, literature, history, art, culture tools (NEH)

Free Stuff for Teachers: printable graphic organizers, forms, awards and certificates

Free High School Recognition Certificates (by April 30)-SPANISH only

http://www.moretprs.net/: TPRS discussion and support forum

CultureQuest Project Toolkit           www.culturequest.us/pt_a1.htm

• CultureQuests are inquiry-based research projects, undertaken by teachers and students in k-12 or college classes, which result in educational web sites that may be shared with other students around the world.

Express Pathway to Educational Data: "This Web site will help you view some of the important data that the U.S. Department of Education collects from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico."

World in A.cademic T.echnology Ways: "explore the topic of online technologies in support of language learning and teaching, intercultural competencies and all things global."

Improv Encyclopedia: "Improv Encyclopedia is the largest collection or resources for improvisation theater on the web. Here you will find tons of stuff related to improvisation theatre." (icebreakers, warm-ups, group trust)

Free Clipart for students and teachers

ON-LINE TUTORING

· Smarthinking.com: company provides their own tutors

· AskOnline.net: software allows you to use your own tutors

SMARTBOARDS

· SMART educator resources

· SMART exchange

· SMART Board Revolution

DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION

Differentiated Instruction in the Foreign Language Classroom

Dare to Differentiate

Differentiation Central

Don't Give Up: motivating adult learners to complete language courses, best practices

LANGUAGE LAB, COMPUTER LAB, VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS

CourseSites: "CourseSites is a free, hosted online course creation and facilitation service that empowers individual K–12 teachers, college and university instructors and community educators to add a web–based component to their courses, or even host an entire course on the Internet. "

NetopSchool6: "Designed for educators who teach in networked classrooms or computer labs, Netop School6 incorporates powerful tools for preparation, instruction and evaluation in one complete solution. Share your computer screen with the class, supervise student computer work, lend a hand when needed, control application and internet use, distribute and collect documents, create tests and evaluate student progress"

Jigsaw Meeting: virtual classroom software

Technology training modules for language teachers

SKYPE for Education

TopHatMonocle: clicker system using mobile devices.