This platform is aimed at supporting university educators and mobility coordinators to organise and run online intercultural exchanges for their students.
Annotate texts online using colored highlighters, text comments, and tags. Collaborate with other users and groups. Requires creating a free account to share the texts.
Interactive timeline creator. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.
Create interactive digital documents or print documents. Collaborate simultaneously with others, and communicate via text chat.
All features are free as of 10/2/2013.
An evolving resource for web tools and other resources for language learning and teaching that includes a wide range of free and freemium tools that can be easily searched and browsed by skill, type of collaboration possible, and cognitive level (based on Bloom's taxonomy, terms from www.usi.edu/distance/bdt.htm). Limitations are listed in the comments.
Langademy is a language learning social network. Students can learn with language exchanges or pay native speakers to have conversations with them. Teachers and tutors or native speakers can earn some money from home by teaching languages at Langademy. Language exchanges are based on a time bank system, with the aim of building a collaborative language community.