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This is a simple trainer for learners of Japanese to improve their recognition speed of hiragana and katakana. The program is still under development and we welcome any feedback from users. 1. Choose ひらがな or カタカナ. 2. Set a speed for your flash card from a pulldown menu. (Available speeds range from three seconds to 0.1 second with 0.1 second increment. ) 3. Read each letter aloud. You must keep up with the speed you set. There is no feedback.

"Lingt Classroom helps teachers enable their students to speak. Create online assignments that make engaging and assessing spoken performance as natural as giving out a worksheet. Make oral exams that take a fraction of the time to administer and assess. Offer targeted feedback to individual responses to maximize student improvement. Incorporate video and images to create media and culture-rich exercises. Archive all your assignments and students' responses to reuse next time and track individual improvement."

"Visual storytelling for everyone: A platform for writers, readers, and artists of all ages. Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. We curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories." Has tools for teachers to set up student accounts, manage privacy and give feedback.

Site that allows students to post their thesis statements and give feedback to each other by rating thesis statements as "hot" or "not," and making comments.

Skritter is a study system for Chinese and Japanese characters. You draw a character stroke by stroke and it gives feedback and tracks your progress. Character lists from 99 textbooks built into the site.

"Sophie is software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. Sophie's goal is to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of people and institutions and in so doing, redefine the notion of a book or academic paper to include both rich media and mechanisms for reader feedback and conversation. Sophie 2.0 is being rewritten in Java, and the Sophie Reader will be browser-based, offering even easier access to - and sharing of - Sophie projects. Sophie 2.0 will also allow the embedding of Sophie Books as applets on any Web page, and the new version will support Adobe Flash. In addition, Sophie 2.0 will be accompanied by full-scale support for an emerging Sophie user community."

"A tool for gathering usability feedback from web users in a low-impact manner"

Welcome to the CITE -- a blog on Course materials, Innovation, and Technology in Education. CITE is a pun with multiple meanings - referring to cite as in citation, something people reference; site as in location, website, or place people go to; and sight as in foresight or looking ahead to what is coming. Comments, discussion, feedback and ideas are welcome.

UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger is intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world's linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level. The latest edition of the Atlas (2009) lists about 2,500 languages (among which 230 languages extinct since 1950), approaching the generally-accepted estimate of some 3,000 endangered languages worldwide. For each language, the Atlas provides its name, degree of endangerment (see below) and the country or countries where it is spoken. The online edition provides additional information on numbers of speakers, relevant policies and projects, sources, ISO codes and geographic coordinates. This free Internet-based version of the Atlas for the first time permits wide accessibility and allows for interactivity and timely updating of information, based on feedback provided by users.

The Student Assessment of their Learning Gains (SALG) website allows instructors to gather learning-focused feedback from students. The SALG survey asks students to rate how each component of a course (e.g., textbook, collaborative work, labs) helped them to learn, and to rate their gains toward achieving the course goals. The SALG survey can be customized to fit any college-level course, and can be administered multiple times per course. A baseline instrument allows faculty to compare gains relative to incoming student characteristics. Once registered on the SALG site, you can: * customize the SALG survey to fit your course goals and methods; * search for an existing SALG survey in your discipline; * have students complete the survey on-line; and, * download and review analyses of the students' responses.

"NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Providing feedback via synthetic speech and Braille, it enables blind or vision impaired people to access computers running Windows for no more cost than a sighted person. Major features include support for over 20 languages and the ability to run entirely from a USB drive with no installation."

The Pinyin tutor is an online tool that promotes Chinese learners in their phonological perception (including the perception of Chinese tones, initials, finals, etc.). Through a series of online Pinyin dictation tasks and corresponding feedback, the tutor helps students be conscious of their errors and thus improve their phonological perception in Chinese eventually.

VideoAnt is an online video annotation tool created by the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. It allows users to make time-line based textual comments in synchronization with online video. It's an ideal tool for providing feedback or facilitating peer reviews.

Praat Language Lab was developed to help students and language teachers learn to use the Praat software to improve spoken English. Many colleges and universities use Praat to provide visual feedback to spoken sound. However, support to use the tool outside the language lab has been limited. We hope that this site supports your use of Praat on your own to improve your spoken English.

Exercises developed by the CLA Language Center GlossMaker: Allows the creation of on-line texts with annotations or glosses. EvalMaker: Creates an exercise where students can evaluate their own answers by comparing them to the teacher's. Also allows incorporation of sound or image files. MatchMaker: Creates a classic two-column matching exercise. Good provision for feedback. Also allows incorporation of sound or image files.

The Text Machine is an application that allows instructors to correct, mark up, comment on, and grade electronic writing assignments. The TM generates rich, detailed, error-specific feedback on essays, compositions, term papers and other written work, all with the click of a mouse. At the same time, your software manages crucial data on students' writing abilities, making the Text Machine an indispensable tool for the assessment of learning objectives.

TAGARELA is an intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) system designed to be fully integrated into the Portuguese Individualized Instruction Program at The Ohio State University. It can be viewed as an intelligent automatic workbook that provides students with opportunities to practice their reading, listening, and writing skills. Because it is a web-based system, it can be used anywhere there is a computer with internet access. TAGARELA uses state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology to analyze students' input, and detect spelling, morphological, syntactic and semantic errors. Its NLP components allow the system to handle activities that go beyond the usual multiple choice or fill-in-the-blanks used by regular CALL systems. Its exercise types are similar to the ones typically found in current workbooks, such as: * listening and reading comprehension * picture description * vocabulary practice * phrasing and re-writing TAGARELA has a student model that keeps track of each student's individual performance, and an instructor model that carries information about activity and error types. Together the student and instructor models allow the system to choose the best feedback strategy to use with each individual learner based on the level of the activity, type of task, characteristics of error, and learner profile.

Benchmark your language evaluation skills with your colleagues across Europe! On this site, you as a language learner or language teacher will be able to create, upload and assess your own samples together with teachers and language learners across Europe. The assessments are based on the Common European Framework of Reference. Participating in the WebCEF community will enable you to use the CEF scales more in assessment situations and practice your skills in collaboration with others across Europe. You will have access to multiple assessments, which will also give you feedback on your own.

"GLOSS online language lessons are developed for independent learners to provide them with the learning/teaching tools for improving their foreign language skills. Reading and listening lessons are based on authentic materials (articles, TV reports, radio broadcasts, etc.) and consist of 4 to 6 activities. The motivating tasks are accompanied with in-depth feedback that provide learners with thorough explanations and tutoring just like an attentive and experienced teacher would do. With more than 5,600 instructional hours of materials, GLOSS is a valuable resource in maintaining and improving language ability of the learners."

Use gClassFolders Template to create a paperless classroom by automatically create shared folders for students. This script was created to accompany the Google Class Model that I recommend for teachers to help organize the classroom: Google Classroom Model Each Classroom set up a Class Edit, Class View, and Dropbox folder.  Make sure to include both the name of the student and the class so that multiple classrooms are not using the same naming convention.