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Free classroom space on the Second Life English (Virtlantis) SIM is now available!

This is a creative site - users can make a card, make a story or make a movie with cute animations, scene choices, and personalized elements. Available in multiple languages. Excellent for differentiation.

Quizlet is a lightning fast way to memorize vocabulary lists. It's like flashcards, but much more fun and interactive.

A link sent to me by the wonderful Jaclyn C. "The above activity (webpage) is in English, but I think it could be useful to label in German. Ich habe Fluegel und Pfoten. Mein Fluegel sind schwarz und orange. Ich habe Horner. Ich bin schoen aber gefahrlich. Ich habe kein…… Viel Spass Jaclyn"

Many language students like to use electronic translators. I teach English and over the years I have watched them grow in popularity. Students love them, there is no doubt about that. Teachers are not so united. Some think they are great, and others hate them. For me, it has taken some time to befriend them, and work out how to take advantage of them in the classroom.

eLanguages is a global online community of teachers sharing ideas and working together with their students on curriculum-relevant projects.

The Government of Quebec has created a series of French exercises at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. There is an entry test and then students access exercises at an appropriate level. The sample I tried included an audio track and questions.

Hollur is a new social networking site that focuses on you using your own voice

Here is a great way to learn English Verbs on your iPod. Apps are also now available.

Would you believe this is a beef jerky advertisement? Lots of potential for school!

LangChat Resources includes a variety of pages promoting materials and ideas for language educators. This is an offspring of the weekly twitter chat stream for the group.

This site is a visual dictionary (arranged by themes: fruits, clothing, pets, plants, housing, school, etc) - when you scroll over each image, a French voice says the word. A wonderful resource for teachers who are not fully proficient and an opportunity to provide a different French language model for students. Ideal for elementary grades.

"Learn a Language - or Learn 8 of Them! Learn a language here with Visual Link® Languages. You can learn over 1,400 words for free here! There are interactive audio/visual flash cards to help you learn a foreign language. There's also an addictive Lingo Dingo game to help you on your online language learning journey. As seen above, you can learn any language of your choice. You can also learn important phrases like greetings, survival expressions and slang words in the language of your choice. If you want verbs, there are over 350 verbs to help you with your language study. To our knowledge, this is the most extensive, free website dedicated to online language learning. Be sure to use it and pass it on to others. "

LiteType.com is a Free Online Virtual Multilingual & Interactive Keyboard Tool. You can type, search and translate in more than 50 foreign languages,with no need to install any additional software.

Here is a huge list of language teachers on twitter. Sort through and find people teaching the same language as you!

http://t.co/U6aaCkNo @ShellTerrell is going to retweet the hell out of this. (if she hasn't seen it already) #esl #efl #eltchat

Online training has earned global popularity. Although both students and professionals are joining online training programs, it has been observed that working professionals are keener to join these...