Take notes (saved in Google Drive) as you watch a YouTube video. Video on left, notes on right. Use keyboard commands to pause & play video. (Keyboard commands do not work in Firefox.)
Study, Share, Connect with Your Classmates.
Allows students to collaboratively take notes and share notes on classes.
Limitations: Currently in beta. Requires a .edu email address.
Upload presentation with notes, and final presentation has text-to-speech of notes accompanying slides.
Limitations: English and German only. The English voice does not sound great.
Formerly called Wallwisher. Online sticky notes/notice board.
Limitations: Privacy settings are limited. You can allow everyone or no one to add notes to your notice board.
Create collaborate workspaces that include a wiki-like shared note space, screen sharing, and video chat.
Limitations: 10 people can video chat at the same time. Another 20 people can participate in the conference without video.
Used the online editor to crop videos from YouTube, KhanAcademy, and other sites. Then record audio directly in the browser, and add multiple-choice and open-ended questions at any points in the video. You can also add audio notes. Useful for flipping the classroom.
Limitations: You can't upload your own videos to the site. However, you could upload them to YouTube, then access them through EDpuzzle.
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.
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