Online oral practice/instruction/assessment platform for foreign language teaching. Increases students' oral practice opportunities by making it possible to give speaking homework.
A nice alternative to Voicethread and a great option for starting a discussion. Discussions can start with text and/or a link to a video or other media. Then students can add their oral responses.
This is a simple list of English to Chinese names which I've build up over the years when my students have been looking at Chinese New Year. You can contact me to add more names to the list.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Mandarin+%26+Chinese+culture