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A check list and some good tips for designing a web page.  

This post by Silvia Tolisano offers a series of activities and a checklist to assist you in re-designing your curricula to support student empowerment and 21st century literacies.

Easy way to make infographics for showing your data. Create the infographic and add photos, text, shapes, data and once you save it download your finished product or share it in social media.

You must create an account in order to use their free (but limited) themes.  Create your own infographics 

Explain Everything is a screencasting app for the iPad. It costs $2.99 in the App Store and no account is needed to use it. This iPad app is designed for educational professionals and students alike, to create projects and record them as screencasts. It is a powerful tool and flexible app that is easy to use. Students use Explain Everything to make collaborative projects using multiple mediums. The recording feature allows foreign language students to create speaking samples with their projects, which can be used to measure progress with language proficiency in a digital portfolio. Teachers can use the recording feature to create a lecture capture. Projects can be designed directly in Explain Everything or files such as presentations, photos, notes, and videos can be imported into the app to create a project that can be annotated with pencil or text, narrated, recorded, and shared in a variety of ways, uploading to Photo Roll, You Tube, Email, Drop Box, and Evernote. Explain Everything can be used by both teachers and students as an interactive whiteboard tool for presentational purposes, when connected to an Apple TV or projector.

A tutorial on language testing specifically designed for language educators.

The website Facts about Germany invites you to get to know Germany. It offers profound basic knowledge and guidance - especially designed for readers abroad whose interest in the course of time in Germany extends beyond the casual flood of the daily news.

Links to sources that allow you to create free infographics.

This "Social Media Citation Guide" is from the Educational Technology and Mobile Learning Website and shows a easy display of how to site blog posts, YouTube videos, Twitter tweets, Facebook posts, and email in both MLA and APA styles. It's formatted as a neatly designed table which can be enlarged for viewing.

Stay Up to Date with a "Reader's Digest" of Newsletters Between planning lessons, grading students' work, meeting with parents and administrators, organizing after-school activities, and attending teacher in-service days, who has time to stay apprised of recent developments in the field? Let CASLS help! Our staff subscribes to numerous listservs and taps our national network to create InterCom, a customizable weekly newsletter designed for the time-pressed educator. Members receive a collection of short descriptions with links to resources that match their interests such as curriculum, workshops, assessment, funding opportunities, and more. Join the over 1,700 InterCom members who are already in the know! Or use our search feature without joining.

The site offers step-by step video courses and training exercises on different technology skills that will help you build a web site, start a blog, and more.  I would use this for the 605 and 610 course.  

Duolingo is a free language-learning website and crowd-sourced text translation platform. The service is designed so that, as users progress through the lessons, they simultaneously help to translate websites and other documents. It is a way that teachers can provide an additional language learning source to their students, and once each lesson is completed, students read authentic sources and complete activities on the Internet from authentic web-based sources.

Another site to create an infographic.  This one allows you to create charts and add pictures and video 

Are you inspired to create amazing interactive courses, but don't know how to code? Versal is a simple publishing platform with everything you need. Add text, videos, images, quizzes and interactive learning gadgets and bring your expertise to life.  I could see using this as a means for differentiating instruction within my class, as a means to support learning, and more. 

Smore is an online Web 2.0 tool used to create online brochures which are interactive and easy to make.

A website designed for Spanish language teachers. Teaching resources for Spanish class, lesson plans, worksheets, Powerpoint presentations and more free Spanish teaching resources.