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Free online tool for managing Q&A in classes. Students can submit questions; answers are given in wiki format (students can all edit 1 student-contributed answer, instructors can edit instructor-contributed answer). 

"Xerte Online Toolkits is an award winning suite of browser-based tools that allow anyone with a web browser to create interactive learning materials quickly and easily. "

"The UAM CorpusTool is a state-of-the-art environment for annotation of text corpora. So, whether you are annotating a corpus as part of a linguistic study, or building a training set for use in statistical language processing, this is the tool for you."

"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.

"WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing."

Tool to help with creating color palettes for design work. You enter first color, and it gives various options for palettes.

Tool to help with creating color palettes for design work. You upload a photo and it extracts colors from it and gives you a palette.

Tool to help with creating color palettes for design work.

A tool that lets you enter foreground/background color combinations to check if they meet accessibility standards for legibility.

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

Chinese Savvy is a website community where members can share tips and have access to different tools for Chinese language learning.

Concordance tool for Arabic. Has nice features in results, such as being able to sort by word before or word after the target.

A digital story combines text and images with narration in the student's own voice to form a short digital movie. Digital Storyteller is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students frictionless access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives. Digital Storyteller was developed as an initiative of Primary Access.

Kanji alive is a free, web-based tool to help beginning and intermediate level Japanese language learners to read and write kanji. It is cross-platform and will run in any browser that supports Adobe Flash and Apple Quicktime. Please Note: The current version of Kanji alive available on this site is an initial beta or pilot version. We are making it available now in order to solicit comments and suggestions from our users. It is not a dictionary: only searches for individual kanji, not words. Shows character in font and animation of handwriting, on/kunyomi, audio clips & translations of associated compound words, radicals, stroke count and breakdown, and grade level/reference numbers for kanji lists.

IPA Writer is a free online tool to transcribe phonetics using the IPA. It is powerful, yet simple. Clicking on an IPA character adds it to the end of the "IPA result" textbox at the top of the page. The IPA Writer is separated into four parts. Vowels, consonants, other consonants and diacritics/suprasegmentals.

Free online tools for photo-editing, logos, web templates, filters, color palettes, screen capture & more at Aviary.com.

Screenshot tool that captures the full webpage (not just the portion that's scrolled into view). Saves as jpg.

"Welcome to the online text analysis tool, the detailed statistics of your text, perfect for translators (quoting), for webmasters (ranking) or for normal users, to know the subject of a text. Now with new features as the anlysis of words groups, finding out the keyword density, analyse the prominence of word or expressions. "

"Share a great idea... Explain a tricky concept... Help kids with their homework... ScreenChomp for iPad helps you do it all. A simple doodling board, markers, and one-click sharing tools make spreading your ideas and know-how easy and fun! Just - Record It. Sketch It. Share It. - to create a sharable, replay-able video that tells your story clearly. 1. Touch RECORD to capture your touch interactions and audio instructions on a plain background, or an image from your iPad camera roll. 2. SKETCH out your ideas and talk the viewer through the "how" and "why" of it all. 3. Stop and SHARE your video snack to ScreenChomp.com to generate a simple web link you can paste anywhere - or - post it to Facebook with one-click! Why share to ScreenChomp.com? Because… … it serves up a short URL that's easy to share anywhere. … you can download your video as an MPEG-4 file. … there's a Twitter sharing button. … there's no account to manage. Just post and go (perfect for schools and teachers)!

Tools for Arabic study, including spell-checker, autocorrect, corpora, word tagger, morphological analyzers, dictionaries, games, etc.