A free online automatic text summarization tool. Simply select a percentage to keep, and the original text will be accordingly shortened to reveal a summary.

vozMe: From text to speech (speech synthesis). online tool that offers applications and services to convert text into speech. vozMe uses speech synthesis systems and technology to provide voice resources to any website or add speech synthesis to any web browser.

Text to speech with naturally sounding voices. Let your computer read most documents with naturally sounding voices and convert text to MP3, or text to WAV files, text to audio files, read text aloud, download free text to speech software now text readers, computer reader, Reader, online reader, talking text, voice text.

DocsTeach is a product of the National Archives education division. Our mission is to engage, educate, and inspire all learners to discover and explore the records of the American people preserved by the National Archives. The National Archives and Records Administration is the nation's record keeper.

The World Digital Library provides free access to manuscripts, rare books, maps, photographs, and other important cultural documents from all countries and cultures, in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

This website promotes and celebrates works that are in the public domain.

A wide variety of creative, fun, activities for Spanish classrooms!

Toolsuite for visualizing and exploring passages of text. Analyze any section of English text, including definitions, images, word frequency, etc.

Listen to foreign online radio news and information and practice a foreign language!

I don't teach Shakespeare, but this looks really cool for those who do! There is a cost for the ebooks, but it seems reasonable. Basically they have videos that pair Shakespeare's words and a filmed performance side by side. Professional Shakespearean actors help you understand the text, and the text helps you understand the performance.

Bookr is a tool to create illustrated books from Flickr photos.

The global guessing game that gets kids learning about geography, culture, and the similarities and differences of how children live all over the world.

From your hobby to your career, your class notes to your final exam, your mood board to your runway show, padlets help you organize your life.

Open a room for discussion. Extend the conversation beyond the classroom, or encourage back-channeling.

Students will enjoy inputting their own text and seeing the message appear in images of fortune cookies, movie marquees, etc.

Dozens of online tools that students can use to organize and summarize their thoughts. Venn diagrams, essay maps, and other "visualizations" are provided.

This educational video site has many Spanish resources (and tons of other topics). Though not as organized as Ver-taal or Zambombazo, there are many good grammar videos to benefit Spanish students.

The Spanish section of this language-learning site organizes a wide variety of authentic materials and activities (many interactive). Resources can be sorted by grammar or vocabulary themes: reportajes del telediario de TVE fragmentos de vídeos culturales trailers de película canciones anuncios y mensajes de campañas de información

This article provides links to many sources for free stock photos. Thanks for sharing this with our 541 class, Dr. Gernstein.

This is a great infographic to explain Creative Commons. Especially useful, I think, is the information on how to cite from CC.