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Между нами is a free, web-based textbook that provides a comprehensive introduction to Russian language and culture. It is organized around the experiences of four American students, each spending the academic year in a different Russian city. Their interactions with host families, roommates, fellow students and teachers create a universe of contextualized information that motivates the use of the target language in the classroom. Добро пожаловать! Между нами is a free, web-based textbook that provides a comprehensive introduction to Russian language and culture. It is organized around the experiences of four American students, each spending the academic year in a different Russian city. Their interactions with host families, roommates, fellow students and teachers create a universe of contextualized information that motivates the use of the target language in the classroom.

This French website created for native French speakers is full of dictées - dictations. This site is divided into grade levels based on the French school system. (For a brief run-down of the grade levels in France visit the blog from Transparent Language entitled À l'École!: French and American Grade Levels Compared at http://blogs.transparent.com/french/a-lecole/) Since the ladictee.fr website is targeted toward elementary aged children, the language level works well for beginner and intermediate French L2 learners. Even though a dictée isn't what people would call a "communicative" activity, it does serve the purpose of helping students make connections between spoken language and written language, especially since French spelling is not phonemic. The site includes various dictées for each level, along with a PDF of the written text so student's can check their work. Doing dictées can help students improve their spelling, recognize spelling patterns, and learn to listen for cues in spoken speech that indicate whether the person is speaking in the plural or singular (often tricky in the French language). Note: When doing a dictée, students are focused on writing down what is said word for word, and NOT on comprehension. It would NOT be effective to give a student a dictée and then immediately ask them specific comprehension questions about what they just heard.

The teacher creates an account, and the students can create movies using animated clips. Students change the text to change the clips. Limitations: The free version allows 5 students and 12 movies.

Create flipped classroom lessons by linking to YouTube videos. Students respond to your assignment before they can see other students' responses.

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.

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.

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.

Backchannel application that allows students to answer multiple choice questions and rate their confidence that they've understood. Teachers get access to all information in realtime. Limitations: Students have to sign up for an account.

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.

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.

Ask multiple-choice questions to the audience/students in real time. Students can use laptops or mobile devices to respond.

Simplified news stories that students can read and listen to in English. Also includes related vocabulary practice, scrambled sentences, and voice recording. An additional tool lets students create their own books for download or printing.

Create timelines with text, video, audio, and multiple-choice questions. You can also create classes that students enroll in, and students can create their own timelines.

Video clips of students from the Arabic Flagship Program at University of Texas at Austin share their experiences while studying abroad in Alexandria, Egypt. Students give interviews in various levels of Arabic proficiency.

Real Time Student Reponse System. Students use computers or iPads to respond to multiple-choice, true/false, or short answer questions posted by the teacher. Instant results can be displayed.

Classroom Salon is a document and video annotation system. All your course documents and videos can be annotated by students using salon's annotation tools. They can comment on specific words, sentences and paragraphs and also comment on video frames. Salon aggregates all these annotations to provide amazing insights into student thinking.

Learning management system that gives students quizzes on grammar and easily confused words. Teachers can track student progress. Grammar questions include content based on students' indicated interests. Intended for native speakers, but may also be useful for ESL.

Create an alphabet book with one page for each letter. Students write the text and upload images. Books can be exported as PDF.

AVIS DES ARTISTES was developed to help intermediate and advanced students improve their oral comprehension skills. A sequence of audio and video selections provides the basis for comprehension exercises of increasing difficulty. Students using the AVIS DES ARTISTES series are exposed to a broad range of vocabulary and delightful aspects of French culture in the context of challenging oral comprehension exercises. The online format of the AVIS DES ARTISTES exercises allows students individual control of their listening and viewing experience. For immediate reinforcement, answers sets for each exercise may be viewed by clicking a button. The first few exercises require no more than recognition of key words. As the exercises increase in complexity, they require more extended and subtle listening skills, paraphrasing and summarizing of information presented in the source documents.

Students at the Arabic Flagship Program in the University of Texas in Austin offer details about their experiences in the program.