Featuring vocabulary and grammar games, this websource makes vocabulary drills fun. Lessons are geared for beginning learners and intermediate learners.
Paste Japanese text and this tool will add furigana to it. This tool additionally will show you the meaning of the word if you mouse over it and can remember which kanji you already know
backchan.nl is tool for involving audiences in presentations by letting them suggest questions and vote on each other's questions. backchan.nl is intended for conference or event organizers who want a new way to solicit questions from the audience and make better use of question and answer time.
Text Message (SMS), Twitter, and web Polls and Voting, Audience Response System
Now includes presenter tools so that you can create polls on the fly (during a presentation).
Can embed live poll results in a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation.
Limitations: Free version allows up to 40 responses.
Google's social network. The "hangout" feature lets you do videochat, including some virtual classroom tools.
Limitations: Hangouts are limited to 10 participants.
Create collections of web resources to share with students. You can also add quiz questions and commentary on the resources.
Limitations: Does not support non-Latin fonts.
a free, open source toolkit for processing natural language text, based on machine learning. It includes common natural language processing functions such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity extraction, chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution.
Limitations: can be difficult to use unless you have programming background
Innovative 3-column writing application that allows you to outline on the left and add details in the middle and right columns.
Limitations: 3 "trees" for free