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These are great tools to edit and create videos. A great way for students to make professional videos

Hello Lori, How are these better from movie maker?

This LiveBinder is dedicated to helping teachers find the right web tool for the task at hand. This LiveBinder by Tim Wilhemus has resources for items like video editing, audio editing, URL management, file management, online publishing, digital storytelling, curation tools, social networking, media sharing, drawing tools, blogging, iApps, time management, etc

Collaborative note taking and sharing at ACTFL

audio editor, does have advertising on website

Student friendly rubrics to use in the classroom for all levels.

These rubrics are especially helpful! Thanks! I like the fact that you can edit the rubrics as necessary for what you are doing in your classroom. I used some of them for my students' final presentations in June. Great resource! Not to mention there are other wonderful resources on the site as well

Cute and creative voice recording program available on iTunes or online. Allows you to edit the sound of a 30 second voice recording by raising pitch of the voice, lowering it, changing accents, etc. Embeddable in your website, creates a URL and can be emailed to teachers, tweet, and more. Fun! Could be used for any voice recording needs, oral assessments, etc. Any age group, any lesson topic.

HistoryPin is a free Web 2.0 tool that allows users to "pin" photos, audio, or video to a particular world map location, much like the Google Earth program. The main idea is that, with enough participation, users will be able to get a sense of the history a location - both the visual and narrative aspects of it - as photos or videos from various time periods are pinned to that location. I can envision my students using it in partnership with another class of L1 students to share the concept of how people and places can change. For instance, both groups might focus on how a major city in their own country has changed, in order to demonstrate that to the other class via HistoryPin. Students would collect and upload photos or videos that show how the respective cities grew, how building or even fashion styles changed. They would use the HistoryPin audio option to describe the changes, my L2 students in Spanish, the L1 students in English. Once the L2 learners had "pinned" their photos on the map, L1 students could review and e-mail corrections so that L2 students could return to HistoryPin and edit their contribution. My students would do the same in return in English for the L1 students (assuming they are learning English, possibly). In this way, through collaboration, all students can gain a new perspective on how people and places look and change in another culture, while honing "technical" language skills.

Compiliation of cloze transcripts for foreign language commercials. Can be used for lesson plans to enhance listening skills

Google doc of authentic resources for Spanish language teachers. Can be used for lesson planning needing some authentic links.

Linguafolio training modules - Walks through understanding and implementing Linguafolio

Thanks for sharing this, Stephanie. I worked with our State Department of Education in the development and training on eLinguafolio in North Carolina. Glad to see this shared here!

A online, peer-reviewed journal on language teaching and learning vis-a-vis technology. Sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawai'i and the Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) at Michigan State University Edited by Dorothy Chun and Mark Warschauer

Jing, together with Camtasia Studio and Screencast are an amazing product. You record with Jing, save it into an MP4 with Camtasia and publish it to others with Screencast. These are by far my favorite tools, but I have never used them with students. WIth jing you can share your screen and talk over what you are seeing on the screen. Camtasia gives you the ability to edit what you created, add in call outs, zoom and pan, pixilate images, use tools like circles, arrows, dialog bubbles, etc. and then publish them with a URL to share with others. I would love to use this tool with students.