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A browser extension that gives you an enhanced video player for YouTube videos. It allows you to slow the video and zoom in. Limitations: You will need a blog or webpage to embed the video.

Video lessons on a wide range of subjects, aligned to Common Core. Seem to currently (as of 5/12/2013) have no language lessons. However, you can use this as a repository to upload your own lessons and share them.

Create a digital book with 3D images and text. By printing the book and using a webcam with the webapp, you can view the books as augmented reality.

Quickly create a 1-page website or portfolio from a template.

Chrome browser extension and mobile app that allows you to view subtitles on a mobile device while watching a movie on Netflix or Amazon Video. You can interact with the subtitles to get translations.

TTBJ is a collection of tests developed by the International Student Center at the University of Tsukuba. TTBJ is available for use according to the following two methods: as an individual test taker, as a group test taker. Also known as the SPOT test.

View a map of world civilizations and manipulate the year. Watch a location change hands over time.

Play Shiritori against the computer. In this game, you have to type a word that begins with the character that the previous word ended with. If you type a word that ends with "ん", the game ends--because no words begin with ん.

Play Shiritori against the computer. In this game, you have to type a word that begins with the character that the previous word ended with. If you type a word that ends with "ん", the game ends--because no words begin with ん.

These "games" involve arranging objects in a room. For one idea of how to use these in the language classroom, see http://www.languagetechnologybootcamp.org/2014/02/07/a-small-game-for-teaching-two-way-prepositions/

A free study tool for reading and writing kanji. This is a Japanese kanji dictionary that includes animations of writing the characters.

Upload a video or select a YouTube video, then add comments, surveys, and questions about the video.

Free tool for online curation. Bundlr offers a bookmarklet which allows you to quickly 'clip' any web page into a themed bundle which you can then share easily.

Upload an audio file and transcribe in the browser. Keyboard commands so that you don't have to move your hands to pause, rewind, fast forward, and adjust playback speed. Also has a command to insert current timestamp. Learners could use this to check their detailed comprehension of a listening text. Also useful to researchers with audio recordings to transcribe.

Create and use interactive educational tutorials. A kind of programming is required to create them. They can be created to simulate a conversation and adapt to the input of the learner.

Record your voice and/or type a message. A QR code is generated to link to the message.

Visual English dictionary and thesaurus. Shows relationships between the word you search for and other words/phrases using a diagram. Hover the mouse over a word to see its definition.

Create a study group and share files and bookmarks. Also includes a collaborative whiteboard, video chat, and text chat.

Create a webpage. Designed for a personal homepage or resume.

Acceso is intended as a complete, interactive curriculum for intermediate-level learners of Spanish. The materials on this site are provided freely to the public and are intended as a replacement for commercial textbooks, which are generally ill-suited to the learning outcomes now considered crucial to successful language study. These materials are supplemented by an online workbook built on the MySpanishLab platform of Pearson Education, Inc., as well as detailed lesson plans, rubrics for the evaluation of student work, and reliable instruments for measuring student progress and learning outcomes.