Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Web Teacher Tools is offering a single Moodle site to any educator who would like one. It is a great way to become proficient with Moodle,

Elassroom resources, free web conferencing, online groups, online discussions and events for teachers, educators in K-12 and higher education. Unlimited, on-demand sessions with single-click access - Integrated VoIP, etc

It allows you to create your own video-conference and online meeting classroom for free.It also includes all sorts of online useful features for language teachers like whiteboard, one to one and group chat as well as other features like a shared desktop, Power Point and PDF file sharing

Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning Created by the Center for Language Education And Research at Michigan State University. Online programs for recording, uploading, mixing, and interacting. Free!

Webex helps you have your office from everywhere. You can attend meetings and conferences from wherever you are.

Dictionary.com CleverKeys allows you to look up definitions and synonyms instantly from almost every application, such as your email and word processing software. It's compatible on any 32-bit version of Windows, from Windows 95 / NT 4 up to Vista. Once CleverKeys is installed, simply highlight a word and hit the "CTRL" and "L" on your keyboard to search that word on Dictionary.com. Configuration options and help are available by right clicking on the Dictionary icon in your System Tray in the lower right corner of your screen.

Objectplanet is a free software used for 100% web-based survey. It covers all survey needs, it's time-saving, it gives us the chance to desing an onlien survery very quicky and then see the results at the same time.

Electa live is an online virtual classroom that can be used for schools, universities, companies and also home school. It helps you run online presentations, web conference rooms, personal virtual classrooms, online sessions and it also provides you with the chance to create a professional environment to teach live over the Internet.

Planbookedu.com is a free software for teachers, educators, administrators, and also home school learners who want to create a simple lesson plan easily and have the access to it from everywhere. It gives you the chace to share your lesson plan with your colleagues.

Silvia Tolisano's post contains links to all of her previous very detailed posts about blogging.  This is a great resource.

TILT stands for interactive Technologies In Language Teaching, and is a European project which aims to promote best practice in communicative language teaching using interactive whiteboards. interactive_whiteboard_sample.jpg Interactive whiteboards may look like normal whiteboards, but can significantly transform the language classroom. For this to happen, teachers need to be given adequate training and support in how to use the tool communicatively, to be aware of strategies and procedures for designing effective IWB materials, and to have the opportunity to reflect on their own practice.

Quibblo is a fun survey, poll and quiz site, where you can: Easily make your own quiz Take fun quizzes by other members Share quizzes with friends Embed quizzes on your MySpace, blog, Facebook or any other page on the internet.

PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing. PaperRater.com combines the power of natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, information retrieval (IR), computational linguistics, data mining, and advanced pattern matching (APM). We offer the most powerful writing tool available on the internet today. As part of the development process, we put together a team of computational linguists and subject matter experts to develop a core Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine using statistical and rules-based NLP to extract language features from essays and robustly translate that into statistical models. We hope to showcase some of our technology at a later date.

ExamWeb is a technology-based webiste provides different activities such as assessment, creating of tests, quizzes, practice exams and surveys.

OWL let instructors and test developers to create tests, simplify ane and rate/score them all online. It is used for all language skills, and assesses all educators' language knowledge.

Zoomerang is a free software used for creating surverys and polls online. It provides you with different options, appearance features of your surveys or polls. It's easy too use and gives you the chance of several times of edition in your surveys and polls.

SurveyPirates is a free software helps learners, teachers, and instructors to create and publish their survevy on the web.