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Marketed at "Word Clouds for Kids," but is similar to any word cloud. Limitations: No options for embedding.

Social network for education. For teachers, students, parents, and administrators. Limitations: English only.

Tools for learners, teachers, and researchers. Learners can take tests, use concordance tools for reading, writing, and grammar. Researchers and teachers can determine the number of words at different frequency bands, etc. Limitations: English and French only

Learning management system with a very visual user interface for the teacher. Teachers can create sequenced lessons. Limitations: Free for up to 30 students per teacher.

Arch Chinese is a premier Chinese learning system crafted by Chinese teachers in the United States for Mandarin Chinese language learners at K-12 schools and universities. Designed from the start specifically for English speakers who have no or little knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, it offers a rich set of features with a slick and easy-to-use user interface.

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

Bonjour de France is an « educational website » containing free exercises tests and games to learn French. Teaching aides and materials are also available for those teaching French as a Foreign Language (FLE). Through its various pages, this website serves as a tool for promoting the Francophonie. New interactive sections will appear regularly to ensure this site becomes a place full of resources and a place to share.

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/

App for mobile device and plugin for Google Forms/Canvas that allows you to generate tests and bubble sheets to print, then grade automatically using mobile app.

Make a collection of links. Useful for sharing a list of links with students for a particular purpose.

30hands Cloud is a platform for online and blended learning that merges personalized, structured content with social media and student publishing for better, student-centric learning.

Sample chapters of textbooks focused on case marking are available for Czech and Russian. Exercises are available for both languages with feedback. The book and exercises on Polish are forthcoming.

Formerly "FlaxReader" The system keeps tracks of words learners click during reading and uses data to provide learner with vocabulary review exercises. Also, helps learners find text in their target language at the right difficulty level. Limitations: Mainly for Spanish, some support available for other languages.

Create phrase lists in multiple languages, including links back to where you found the phrases on the web. For ideas for using this in the classroom: http://nikpeachey.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/creating-social-phrasebooks-with.html

A list of tools for learners, curated by Nik Peachey.

Create digital lessons for use in class or at home using web content, images, videos, documents, questions, etc. Add tags for Common Core standards. Students have opportunities to provide feedback.

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.

Supplementary materials for beginning Spanish that focus on issues of cultural identity of Spanish speakers in the United States. They are intended as a bridge between paper-based textbooks and Acceso, the online curriculum for second year Spanish developed at the University of Kansas. The modules are designed to be covered in two class periods each and include glossed readings, extensive multimedia content, flash-based comprehension questions and activities that leverage Web 2.0 tools.