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Online Brainstorming and Planning. Add a sticky note and post it online with voting.

Marcelo Andrade's English Phonetics wiki. Includes resources for learning and teaching English phonetics.

Explains etymologies of Spanish words, in English. Includes relationships between Spanish and English words.

Counts word frequency in a text. Limitations: Designed to work with English only.

Create mindmaps or multiple outlines/task lists.

Create presentations online. Present from any web browser on your computer, tablet or smartphone.

MSU's Center for Language Teaching Advancement's learner training modules for students learning a second language.  Module 1: Understanding proficiency What proficiency is, how it is measured. Module 2: Language learning basics How second languages are learned and taught. Module 3: Language learning strategies Strategies to make you a better language learner.

Tool for scaffolding, managing, organizing, and assessing student projects in Google Drive. Doctopus gives teachers the ability to mass-copy (from a starter template), share, and manage grading and feedback for student projects in Google Drive. The Goobric Chrome extension works alongside Doctopus to enable rubric-based grading of Google Docs right in a browser popup window using the rubric of your design.

Select YouTube videos and add text comments to the timeline. Multiple people can comment on the same video. The commented video can be embedded.

Collaborative online text editor. What makes this different from Google Docs is that you can edit as though you were using pen and paper. You can export your work as .txt.

Module on literature circles for ESL and foreign language teachers.

Simple Web Polls

100-million-word Spanish corpus of text from 1200-1900s

Corpus Diacrónico del Español  Spanish corpus including texts from many countries.

Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual Spanish corpus including texts from many countries.

Peer Feedback/Evaluation System for Student Team Projects

Enter the URL of a webpage, then make edits to the text on it. This site produces a URL to link to your edited version. (No changes are made to the original website.)

An extension of AlJazeera news, AlJazeera Learning features news articles and reports geared at the student level. Texts include a vocabulary list of words relevant to understanding each article. There are also news videos and other stories. 

Course by Lovisa Berg, Dalarna University visit www.du.se/arabic for more information. Watch more on youtube.com/dalarnauniversity or download for free on itunes.du.se On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:· recognize, write and correctly pronounce the Arabic alphabet as well as understand the diacritic marks (al-harakaat) that affect the pronunciation of certain vowels and consonants · acquire a basic vocabulary · understand and ask simple questions · communicate in Arabic about simple familiar subjects · use greetings· introduce themselves: family and background, interests · read short texts and write simple texts about familiar topics · recognize simple grammatical constructions and use them.

Practice your French understanding by reading online!