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Teachers can create private social networks for classes, including discussion forums.

Create a discussion forum that you can embed into your site.

Create lessons based on TED talks and YouTube videos. Add multiple-choice and fill-in questions, discussion. The instructor can review student responses and send feedback. See also http://dev.celta.msu.edu/technology-blog/?p=289 Make sure to disable your ad blocker to use this site!

Upload presentations. Integrated text discussions on each slide.

Sync presentations to all devices, add comments and discussion on slides. Useful in live classroom. Limitations: Presentation only saved for 4 hours in free version.

Collection of online resources for learning Japanese from the Japan Foundation. Includes online courses in basic Japanese, learning hiragana and katakana scripts, discussion forums, and games.

Learning management system that includes discussion forums and a gradebook. Can also be used to grade assignments in Google Drive using a rubric.

Cultural Interviews with Japanese-Speaking Executives is a compilation of brief video clips in which Japanese and Japanese-speaking executives discuss cultural issues that are of interest to North Americans. The objective of the interviews is three-fold: First, provide practical cultural information about business topics. The opinions represent those of real people. At times they are even contradictory, but they are designed to be a catalyst for discussion, not a definitive answer about some stereotype. Second, the interviews provide vocabulary in areas within a professional setting. The interviews present diverse vocabulary within the context of each individual's comments. Third, these materials provide non-native speakers of Japanese with multiple examples of natural speech, illustrating the way that speakers really talk.

Create multiple-choice quizzes, discussions, and surveys including images and videos. The intention is that students would use these in the classroom. Limitations: Because of the focus on the synchronous classroom and interactivity, a single student alone cannot take the quizzes.

A learning management system with social functions.

Simple image/PDF collaboration and markup tool. Share, annotate and discuss images.

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

Online study groups for many subjects, including languages.

Create a shared message board where you can post files, pictures, videos, check lists, etc.

Create boards, privately or in collaboration with others. You can add text, images, links, videos, and documents to the board.

A sequence of audio and video selections to help intermediate and advanced students improve their oral comprehension skills. It provides the basis for comprehension exercises of increasing difficulty. The topics are extremely varied: the creation of Lalique crystal; winemaking, Van Gogh's genius; the production of sound effects for cinema; Sartre discussing Huis Clos in 1946; cinematographers Pialat and Karmitz describing their work; the history of the Louvre; Alphonse Daudet in a 1927 recording of his famous Provençal story, La Chèvre de Monsieur Seguin.

Arlecchino, Pulcinella and other masks of the Italian Commedia dell'arte will help you learn the subtleties of Italian grammar, one zany episode at a time. Podcasts are built around dialogs that explain the Italian grammar behind communicative language functions - functions like describing and comparing, recommending and expressing opinions, recounting the past, expressing likes and dislikes, hypothesizing, and talking about the future. You can download pdf files to read dialog transcripts and learn more from additional grammar and cultural notes. You can even ask questions on the discussion blog.