Create quizzes and surveys that students respond to simultaneously (during class) using their mobile devices. You can also add images, clues, and additional information. The app indicates the people who have the top 3 scores. Players can use help features similar to "Who wants to be a millionaire".
Limitations: 4-option multiple-choice questions only.
Simple online voice recorder. Share your recording via email or embed. Alternatively, you can upload a file. Recordings can be downloaded. No registration required.
Application that allows students to record an audio response to a written and/or audio prompt. No signup required for instructor or student.
Limitations: The exercise cannot be edited after it is created.
Speech Acts in Films is a site where students of Mandarin Chinese learn to examine, understand, and practice social language through the medium of film. The primary audience of the materials are low-advanced and advanced learners who completed approximately two years of language instruction. The materials have been developed for blended-learning environments, but can also be used for self-study, or as supplemental materials in traditional instructional settings.
Tool for searching for words or short phrases in a corpus. Provides the frequency of that word/phrase versus similar ones. Also provides alternatives based on learner errors.
Limitations: English only
Create multiple-choice quizzes that students can play against each other in real time. Use computers or mobile devices. Teacher has a dashboard view of students' results.
A Google+ Game for Hangouts. You and others (your Google+ contacts) race with each other to find famous works of art within Google maps (indoor street view). Currently, the Palace of Versailles is the only available game.
Games for Japanese children, including some language games. For example, one game shows what happens when you change the particles ni, wo, and ga in a sentence.
Watch videos in English with captions. Click any word to get pronunciation and a definition. There is another mode to use the videos as cloze exercises with immediate feedback. Includes social features for competing against other users.