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Вітає Українська is a resource for intermediate-level Ukrainian that integrates the features of a traditional textbook with the authentic language content and interactivity of the web. Activities include cultural readings with mouse-over glosses, audio recordings, embedded videos, structured activities using Ukrainian websites, and self-graded comprehension checks.  The materials are organized as thematic modules, which can be used in any order or as stand-alone supplements to more traditional classroom instruction.  The self-graded comprehension checks also make the materials ideal for those who wish to improve their Ukrainian through self-study.

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.

Tool for scaffolding, managing, organizing, and assessing student projects in Google Drive. Doctopus gives teachers the ability to mass-copy (from a starter template), share, and manage grading and feedback for student projects in Google Drive. The Goobric Chrome extension works alongside Doctopus to enable rubric-based grading of Google Docs right in a browser popup window using the rubric of your design.

Create an "AnswerGarden" using a question. Responses to the question appear in wordcloud format. Question and responses can be embedded in a website or blog.

Enter the URL of a webpage, then make edits to the text on it. This site produces a URL to link to your edited version. (No changes are made to the original website.)

Paste in text to get a variety of analyzes, including readability measures, word and sentence length distributions, and a word cloud.

This Introduction to Homeric Greek series was created by members of the Hour 25 Community in coordination with Professor Graeme Bird as a community-generated, open access educational resource. The series is designed as a gentle introduction for absolute beginners.

Create a gif with text on a colored background. You can control the frame delay, so this could be useful for psycholinguistic experiments.

Create a webpage with a series of photos with commentary.

Make a highlights reel from a YouTube video. Choose the segments you want. You can also annotate them with text.

Create a class homepage for homework uploads, announcements, course documents, and a calendar.

Create a free website and a free blog

Find a partner for a language exchange. Exchanges may be via video conference, email, or face-to-face.

Enter your class list, then click "go" to randomly pick a name. After picking, you have an option to remove that name from the next spin. You can also control how long it takes to choose a name and sound on/off.

Create a collaborate map. You can also upload an image and annotate it like you would a map. For more information, see http://dev.celta.msu.edu/technology-blog/2014/07/24/wikia-maps/

Four classrooms are connected in a "quad" and comment on each other's blogs. Limitations: To sign up, the instructor includes his/her name and email address in a public Google doc.

"The literary in the every day," is a textbook for a transdisiplinary approach to reading/writing at the first and second year levels of college French. The files that make up the textbook serve as foreign language templates in the form of an OER to bridge the well known divide between lower level language courses and upper level literature "content" courses. Language teachers, with the help of these templates, can develop their own reading and writing activities to highlight the metaphorical nature of language. In our continued commitment toward making our resources more open and remixable, the resource is published in a publicly accessible Google Drive. With a Google account, users can even make their own copy and remix the content.

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.

Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. Funded by New York University Abu Dhabi, this mass digitization project aims to expose up to 15,000 volumes from NYU and partner institutions over a period of five years. NYU and the partner institutions are contributing all types of material-literature, business, science, and more-from their Arabic language collections. ACO will provide digital access to printed books drawn from rich Arabic collections of prominent libraries.

This Argentinian educational website has a collection of recorded pieces of literature by Latin American authors. These could be used in class, assigned for homework or as part of a flipped classroom approach. Teacher's guide: http://www.educ.ar/sitios/educar/recursos/ver?id=125244&referente=docentes