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This French website created for native French speakers is full of dictées - dictations. This site is divided into grade levels based on the French school system. (For a brief run-down of the grade levels in France visit the blog from Transparent Language entitled À l'École!: French and American Grade Levels Compared at http://blogs.transparent.com/french/a-lecole/) Since the ladictee.fr website is targeted toward elementary aged children, the language level works well for beginner and intermediate French L2 learners. Even though a dictée isn't what people would call a "communicative" activity, it does serve the purpose of helping students make connections between spoken language and written language, especially since French spelling is not phonemic. The site includes various dictées for each level, along with a PDF of the written text so student's can check their work. Doing dictées can help students improve their spelling, recognize spelling patterns, and learn to listen for cues in spoken speech that indicate whether the person is speaking in the plural or singular (often tricky in the French language). Note: When doing a dictée, students are focused on writing down what is said word for word, and NOT on comprehension. It would NOT be effective to give a student a dictée and then immediately ask them specific comprehension questions about what they just heard.

A learning management system with social functions.

Create an online course that includes text, images, videos, and files.

Upload a PDF and add video, images, audio, comments, and quizzes. (You can also annotate using a pen, but only you will see those annotations.) You can also create classes and add the PDFs and students to them. Limitations: With the free account, you cannot make a document private.

Course management system available in English, French, Italian, Romanian, Turkish, and Arabic.

Formerly "FlaxReader" The system keeps tracks of words learners click during reading and uses data to provide learner with vocabulary review exercises. Also, helps learners find text in their target language at the right difficulty level. Limitations: Mainly for Spanish, some support available for other languages.

Create digital lessons for use in class or at home using web content, images, videos, documents, questions, etc. Add tags for Common Core standards. Students have opportunities to provide feedback.

Create multimedia books that include (YouTube) video, images, links, voiceover, and text. Share them with classes within the app. You can download the finished book as a Flash file, but it would not play on my PC.