PBS Learning Media Home Page. An ENORMOUS resource for authentic materials for all age groups.

This is the YouTube channel for Intelligence Squared Debates (also available as an NPR podcast)

An extensive list of topics for impromptu speaking activities

A link to the Language Acquisition Resource Center's (LARC) assessment webinars (past and present). You can access other resources provided by this page by navigating away from this page.

A good source of current, controversial topics. May be useful for a variety of upper-intermediate to advanced level projects/assignments.

Free online notecard/flashcard site. Mobile version is also available.

"Mahara is a fully featured web application to build your electronic portfolio. You can create journals, upload files, embed social media resources from the web and collaborate with other users in groups."

This site can be used to record and download short videos. Effects can also be added. Files are saved in .flv format.

Create your own cartoons with fully posable characters & animals! Upload pictures, create freestyle panel layouts, add sound & voice-over, and much more! Join our growing vibrant community. Pixton is awesome!

Another "inforgraph" site. Templates are pretty nice and allow students/teachers to create aesthetically pleasing visual texts easily.

Piktochart is an Infographic creation site. It allows you (and students) to make a variety of different visual texts, as well as slideshows and other multimedia texts. It can serve as a nice alternative to PowerPoint.

This is a tool that allows you to watch youtube clips without ads/comments/etc.

I thought I just shared this on here but I don't see it below! haha this teacher in my program just gave a workshop on this. it's a pretty cool tool with a lot of different applications. I actually did a write up on the workshop for the UM's current events feed, check it: http://um2.umac.mo/apps/com/bulletin.nsf/nrsview/2184F90458D580DA48257BDB00116A5F

This is a MOOC run by PUC-SP (The Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) for learning Portuguese.

Well, this is the description that was automatically populated: "Easy online video recording, video email, and video sharing. Embed a webcam recorder on your site for video testimonials. Run a video contest on your site with customized form and video upload tool. A Video API is available to developers who want to add video messaging to their app."

This is Berkeley's youtube channel. It has a ton of videos of lectures from various disciplines. It would be a great resource for advanced listening comprehension/extensive listening practice, and EAP listening.

This looks like a really interesting new blog from NPR which examines the intersection between language, culture, and identity in everyday life (topics that often arise in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology). This could be an excellent source of authentic reading material for L2 learners, a source of culture learning, and also a model source of the blog genre.

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this already (so forgive me if this is a repeat!), but basically Tumblr is like a blog hybrid that allows you post just about anything (as the site states: "Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme's HTML."). The site is very creativity-oriented, and seems like a potentially very useful online resource for students to express themselves creatively, to write and publish for a real audience, to gain exposure to cultural dimensions of the target speech community, and to enhance their digital literacy.

This is a corpus of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). The texts come from spoken interactions between nonnative speakers of English in ELF contexts (i.e., when speakers from different L1 backgrounds must use English in order to communicate).