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"Text2Phonetics is a very handy site if you like to use phonemic script with your students. It can take a lot of the hard work out of transcribing text to phonetic symbols. You just paste in a short piece of text, click a button, and it does it for you."

Free site which allows teachers to create interactive drag-and-drop activities for their students.

The Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency (STAMP), a criterion-referenced, Web-based assessment tool, measures students' language proficiency at levels ranging from Novice-low to Intermediate-mid. STAMP currently measures reading, writing, and speaking proficiencies in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. CASLS strives to continually improve STAMP's test design while adding new languages and new levels. STAMP is available through CASLS' partner company, Avant Assessment.

Somos una profesora y 10 estudiantes en un colegio público en Ohio. Estudiamos el idioma español, y usamos el español para aprender de las culturas hispanohablantes y todo el mundo. ¡Nos gustaría que Ud. comunique con nosotros! ************** We're one teacher & 10 students at a public school in Ohio. We study Spanish and use it to learn about Spanish-speaking cultures and the world. We would love to hear from you!

The REALIA Project publishes faculty-reviewed media for the teaching and study of modern languages and cultures. Faculty and students at all levels are encouraged to contribute materials to our searchable, online database. The focus of the REALIA Project is realia: Materials which convey the everyday life of different cultures.

ScreenSite facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students.

This slideshow illustrates how Professor Caulkins uses Skype to bring authentic voices into the classroom, provide students with opportunities to apply their skills, and bring course content to life with compelling and challenging cross-cultural experiences.

Students often expect their teacher to correct their written errors, but students can also learn a lot from looking for and correcting errors in written work. This activity gives you the chance to test your correction skills and find errors in short texts using a site called BookOven and a tool called SpellChecker

This is a good way to get students using contrasting time structures and tenses in a reasonably creative and imaginative way.

Great site on how to use wikis to get students to collaborate

Samples of projects made by students. Ideas on how to use voicetread.

"Educators seem to be constantly searching for new activities and ways to use Twitter with their Students. At the same time developers seem to be constantly looking for ways to build on the success of Twitter and develop apps and sites that will extend its functionality and increase its usefulness and usability."

GoingOn provides a fast and cost effective way to build vibrant online communities. Leveraging the best of today's social web, GoingOn Community Platform enables academic institutions to deliver new, more engaging models of knowledge management and social collaboration across their campuses, and to their broad network of constitu ents. The results include increased student engagement, improved faculty productivity, enhanced online learning and broader marketing outreach.

Read all about the new Headway Pre-Intermediate students book and iTools to help you to learn English

eLanguages is a global online community of teachers sharing ideas and working together with their students on curriculum-relevant projects.

The first step is to grab a text you want to use with your students. I just grabbed the first couple of paragraphs of a BBC News Report. Paste the text into the field and select which type of words you want to remove. Then select the type of activity you want it to be. At present there are 3 choices:

A easy way to have students record themselves and send it via email.

Being able to cut-and-paste a Wikipedia answer about Social Darwinism into an online activity for credit suggests to me the need for more inspired activities, rather than a different technology. There are ways to stimulate thinking, rather than copying, about Social Darwinism -- thinking that you couldn't fake, whether that student is thinking in a classroom or at home. Part of what I take from this article is that schools are using online for the wrong reasons and in the wrong way. This shouldn't be an indictment of the medium, but of the way in which it has been integrated into the K12 system.