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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

Write text adventure games and interactive stories.

Read and write interactive (like choose-your-own-adventure) stories. Intuitive interface and interactive tutorials make this app easy to learn to use.

Learn basic pronunciation of Italian alphabet, including vowels, consonants and diphthongs.

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.

Drill: write the phonetic pronunciations of the Japanese hiragana and/or katakana

Real Time Student Reponse System. Students use computers or mobile devices to respond to multiple-choice or constructed response questions posted by the teacher. Student responses can include text and the ability to draw or write by hand. Instant results can be displayed. Also allows the teacher to provide feedback and grades.

Create comics using images, backgrounds, and dialog. No registration required.

Comic strip generator

Free online survey software and questionnaire tool

Online pinboard/stickynotes.

Free Social Teaching and Learning Network focused solely on education Offers tutorials on a variety of subjects, including a few languages.

A browser add-on that lets you add clipart and links to YouTube videos. Limitations: Previously, this allowed you to annotate and add subtitles to YouTube videos, but now it is only clipart and links. It is now is a Facebook app instead of a stand-alone application.

Create a profile for your classroom and do a virtual exchange with classrooms around the world.

Upload presentations. Integrated text discussions on each slide.

Online Survey, Poll & Questionnaire Tool. Unlimited questions and responses for free.

Collection of graphic organizers in English.

Create a video that tells a story through a simulation of a Google Doc. (You have to see an example to understand what it does!)

Online Spelling and Grammar Checker for English as a Second Language

Online Spelling and Grammar Checker for French as a Second Language