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Capture anything anywhere, access it from computer, phone, or mobile, find it fast with keywords, tags, text inside images, share with students. A great tool.

A great tool for developing quickly memorized vocabulary. The teacher (or students) can add pictures. The tool creates quizzes of various types--type in the answer, drag and drop, etc., after you have had a learning period. Many different uses and offers so much variety the student is dragged more practice than he expects!

"Engrade unifies all of the people, tools, data, and curriculum in your schools on one user-friendly platform. " And it's free. Includes gradebook, attendance/seating chart, admin reports, access by smartphone, messaging to parents, and security.

"The following are some of the best free tools available online that can help teachers create quizzes." This blog links to some 16 online quiz makers with very short descriptions of each. For college/adults and K-12 also. Some sites have pre-made tests in such subject areas as history, geography, and grammar. Most allow different types of quizzes and some have games as well.

Games, especially involving teams, are a good way to get in a lot of language practice, and can also teach some social skills. These games are family-friend and are categories for appropriateness for classrooms, ice-breakers, party, active games, etc.

You don't need to be an expert to use video effectively in a variety of ways. Thanks to R. Gesthuizen, Diigo in Education.

Songs/music videos with lyrics side-by-side. Should be great for teens and young adult learners. (Also great if you never could understand those words!)

Especially good for young learners- middle school. Has hundreds of games and resources, and subject videos are contributed by kids. You can also search for a word in one of their video, includes history, poetry and other literature, holiday stories, etc. From Carla Arena.

This picture dictionary has sound so students can see, read, and hear vocabulary elements. Each section also has little self-tests for students.

Good resource for children. Great short stories by children for children--audio and accompanying text. Great for early listening comprehension activities. New stories are not being added, but maybe in the future the site will open up again. Rec. by Russell Stannard.