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ANVILL (A National Virtual Language Lab) is a speech-based toolbox for language teachers. Like the language lab console of old, it's focused on the practice of oral/aural language, but at its core are very modern web-based audio and video tools from duber dot com: Voiceboards (an asynchronous speech tool), LiveChat (a 4-way conversation tool), and Voicerecorder (a widget for instant recordings). Each really opens up the scope and sequence of spoken language tasks. Creating media-rich lessons in ANVILL is simple and straightforward. There are templates for audio, video, and image tasks; there are also tools for text-based discussions like blogs and forums. ANVILL's assessment tool,Quizzes and Surveys, gives teachers an easy way to assign and respond to spoken language tasks. In addition, ANVILL is a course management system. Teachers who are doing distance or hybrid courses have a simple means of managing their students as well as their curriculum. We think you'll find that ANVILL is quite flexible, and permits the kind of extra listening and speaking practice that language students need so much. ANVILL is a project of the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon. These tools are currently in use at UO and at a select number of K-12 sites around the Northwest. Thanks to our National Foreign Language Resource Center partners at CASLS, we are able to offer ANVILL to educators at no cost. Here is an overview of its features. If you think it would be helpful to you and your students, contact us to set up an account. Our two-year pilot study has just gotten underway and we're looking for language teachers at all levels to use it and tell us what they think.

A really complete tool description for Moodle 2 (including some tools we don't have). Has "ease of use" and assessment criteria including Bloom's Taxonomy.

This page offers information about some common corpus tools and links to resources on the web: * Online search in corpora * Online full-text search in books * Text and media archives * Online text/corpus analysis tools * Offline text/corpus analysis tools (concordancers) * Further resources * Corpus linguistics websites

There are a bunch of tools in this directory and elsewhere for making slides using standards: * Slidy, * B5, * Slidemaker/slideme. Slidy: The current recommendation (2005/5) is to use Dave Raggett's slideshow tool HTML Slidy, with its accompanying style sheet.

This wiki describes tools and formats for creating and managing linguistic annotations. `Linguistic annotation' covers any descriptive or analytic notations applied to raw language data. The basic data may be in the form of time functions -- audio, video and/or physiological recordings -- or it may be textual. The added notations may include transcriptions of all sorts (from phonetic features to discourse structures), part-of-speech and sense tagging, syntactic analysis, "named entity" identification, co-reference annotation, and so on. The focus is on tools which have been widely used for constructing annotated linguistic databases, and on the formats commonly adopted by such tools and databases.

Language, teaching & text software - TOOLS: * PhraseContext:Text analysis tool, writing tool, collocation analysis, concordancing, text and XML output, and much more. * Calculator Calculate T-score, Z-score and Mutual Information. (Free) * Simpel Grammatik - grammar teaching software (only in Danish) (Free) * Convert : Extract text from PDF-files (Free) * Tokeniser - a small freeware utility. (Free) * Some Object Pascal/Delphi string routines

These pages hope to provide tools to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language. From the novice Chinese language student to the advanced programmer, I hope there is something here for everyone. Rather than being a Chinese language course, it provides tools to people who are already studying and using Chinese. Please check out the DimSum Chinese Reading Assistant, Character Flashcards, the Chinese/English dictionary, the Chinese Namer, and the Western/Chinese Calendar Converter.

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.

"This platform is aimed at supporting university educators and mobility coordinators to organise and run online intercultural exchanges for their students. In these exchanges, students from universities in different countries collaborate together using online communication tools to carry out collaborative projects and to learn about each other's language and culture. By taking part in such projects, students can develop foreign language skills, intercultural awareness, electronic literacies as well as learning more about their particular subject area. If you are a teacher working at a university in Europe or elsewhere, this platform will help you to find partner teachers and classes in other countries, to read about tasks, successful projects and evaluation tools and to exchange questions and experiences with an experienced community of practitioners."

This profile tool will help you to compare your current instructional practices with a set of indicators for engaged learning and high-performance technology. This is not intended to be a rating of your skill or ability as a teacher, but rather as a tool to help you think through the kinds of activities you use to help your students learn. Use the graph to help clarify your thinking about what types of activities you would like to use more frequently in your classroom. This activity frequently takes about 30 minutes to complete.

Our mission is developing next generation office productivity tools that take full advantage of collaboration over the internet. The arrival of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) gives us the power and the moment to redesign the office experience. We can now combine the best of the old off-line desktop with the new possibilities of web-based software, where users work anywhere, any time, on any connected computer. This gives us an opportunity to fundamentally reshape the way office tools look and feel. We can adapt them to the modern way of working, where enterprise success depends on good collaboration in virtual teams that spread geographically and across organizational lines. Our first product TextFlow, already available in beta, embodies our vision: The office experience, redesigned for flow. Nordic River Software AB is a privately held company, located by the banks of the Umea river in northern Sweden.

Links to a video of a teacher training session on Web 2.0 Tools and a 53-page booklet with suggestions and step-by-step instructions for using them.

HotRecorder for VOIP is an advanced tool that allows you to easily record, play, store and convert voice communications held over the Internet. HotRecorder for VoIP is the perfect tool for podcasting, online journalism, conducting business, and much more! Works with Skype and other applications, such as Google Talk. Free trial allows 2 minutes of recording.

iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and collaboration tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of usage in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students.

"This customizable easy to use toolbar (See the toolbar in action in its video tour) seamlessly integrates with familiar applications including Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer, and Adobe Reader, allowing students to access the support tools they need from within mainstream software programs. It highlights and reads text aloud using natural sounding voices and also includes a comprehensive set of support tools for reading, writing, studying, research, and test taking. Read&Write GOLD allows teachers to provide the differentiated instruction that is necessary to meet the needs of diverse student populations and ensure that all students reach their potential and achieve success. "

OITP announces the release of two new online copyright education tools: the Fair Use Evaluator and the Exceptions for Instructors eTool. These great new resources-developed by Copyright Committee super member Michael Brewer-add to OITP's repertoire of copyright tools, including the Public Domain Slider and the Section 108 Spinner.

Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian Following the success of Evalita 2007, we are pleased to announce Evalita 2009, the second evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing tools for Italian, supported by the NLP working group of AI*IA. The general objective of Evalita is to promote the development of language and speech technologies for the Italian language, providing a shared framework where different systems and approaches can be evaluated in a consistent manner. This year in conjunction with AISV (the Italian Association of Speech Science), Evalita will also hold the first speech input technology evaluation for Italian.

Top 100 technology tools for learning, 2009.

Good collection of links to reading resources, such as open content textbooks, folk tales, children's stories, as well as links to tools to support reading, such as addng furigana to kanji.

iPad interactive whiteboard and screencast recorder with sophisticated tools for hand-drawn graphics and remote desktop control.