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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.

Module on literature circles for ESL and foreign language teachers.

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.

Upload an ePUB file (including images, audio, and video). You and others of your choosing can add text comments at specific points. See also: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/using-video-annotation-tools-to-teach-film-analysis/57171?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

English literacy lessons. Interactive animations teach kids about spelling, pronunciation, and reading. Includes exercises.

Online Teaching Free account limited to 30 student profiles and 15 activities

A YouTube playlist of videos teaching Nepali.

I was surprised. I learned things from this article. It can be projected in class to teach students also.

Free Social Teaching and Learning Network focused solely on education Offers tutorials on a variety of subjects, including a few languages.

Common Core Standards Aligned Lesson Plan Organizer

Online books in English for extensive reading, including audio, quizzes, and teacher resources.

Teacher Community for Sharing Ideas, Advice, Strategies & More

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. 

An innovative approach to studying kanji that organizes kanji by usefulness, teaches radicals, explains nuances between synonyms, and employs mnemonics.

Create a presentation with images, video, and text. Invite others to edit.

The animated series Peep and the Big Wide World gives wings to the innovative idea of teaching science to preschoolers. Wry and distinctive visual humor, charming plotlines, and lovable characters combine with a comprehensive science program to attract and engage kids three to five years old.

Create a page with recordings of how to pronounce students' names.

このプロジェクトは、本校が作成した３１１関連の日本語教育教材をネット上に公開することで、日本語を学ぶ人々、日本について学ぼうとする人々に自由に使っていただき、日本語学習・日本文化理解に役立ててもらおうとするものです。 Site with Japanese teaching materials. For grammatical studies as well as Japanese culture and news.

The Latinum Electronicum is an interactive Latin course which teaches the basic knowledge of Latin. The course was developed within the framework of the "Virtual Campus Switzerland" in three languages - German, French, and Italian. In 23 lessons, students can learn Latin and also prepare for the qualification in Latin exam. Animated graphics facilitate the comprehension of those grammatical topics that are especially challenging: for example, the ablativus absolutus and six other syntactic phenomena are described through the use of example sentences which are analyzed and translated before the eyes of the learner.