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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.

Use your mouse or trackpad to input text in Gmail and Google Docs. Useful for practicing handwriting, especially in languages that do not use the Latin alphabet.

TheTiny is one of the leading free URL shortener tools available online, help to create the shortest URLs from your long & ugly URLs in just a few simple mouse clicks. To create a short URL, visit http://thetiny.in/ now!

Sync presentations to all devices, add comments and discussion on slides. Useful in live classroom. Limitations: Presentation only saved for 4 hours in free version.

Take notes (saved in Google Drive) as you watch a YouTube video. Video on left, notes on right. Use keyboard commands to pause & play video. (Keyboard commands do not work in Firefox.)

Input tools that can be enabled in Gmail to communicate in many languages.

The Coptic Dictionary Online aims to make it easy to look up Coptic words in all dialects and supply freely accessible translations in English, French and German, via human and machine readable interfaces.

Tutorial on how to type in Japanese.

Multimedia story in 5 episodes. Available in six languages.

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/

In this game, you select items from the nabe (hot pot) according to what you are told, in order.

Reading Russian Short Stories is an open resource by Filip Zachoval that contains stories written in Russian by different authors in the 20th and 21st centuries, each accompanied by questions and assignments. The collection is designed for learners of Russian, including heritage learners. There are numerous texts that are suitable for novice-high or intermediate-low learners. However, the majority of these texts are more suitable for learners who have reached or are about to enter higher levels of language competence, i.e. students at intermediate and advanced levels.

Morpheem teaches you new Russian words by showing you how they are used. By repeating them in different contexts they are safely stored in your long-term memory.

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

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.

Video chat in the web browser. Limitations: Up to 8 people.

Interesting and useful cultural information for travelling in Europe and Asia. Available in many European languages.

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.

Corpora in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, and Swedish. Limitations: Must be in academia to access.

Used the online editor to crop videos from YouTube, KhanAcademy, and other sites. Then record audio directly in the browser, and add multiple-choice and open-ended questions at any points in the video. You can also add audio notes. Useful for flipping the classroom. Limitations: You can't upload your own videos to the site. However, you could upload them to YouTube, then access them through EDpuzzle.