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This is the official site for Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that allows users to license their creative work (e.g., music, blogs, photographs, course materials, etc.) in online environments.

This is UMUC's definition of copyright laws and fair use procedures.

Collect media from across the web, publish on Storify, then share with others. This is a great conversation starter!

Teachers and students can creatively teach and/or show what they've learned with this 'recordable, interactive whiteboard'.

This site allows students to create their own blogs. (Recommended mainly for high school and college students.)

Through this website, teachers can have their students vote or submit short text answers or questions using computers or SMS messages from their cell phones without needing to purchase clickers.

Early language learning website offering fun activities to promote learning. Eight different languages on offer. Interactive activities and printable worksheets available.

An online classroom/ resource center where the students can retreived information, take tests/ quizzes and turn in assignments.

Great tool for online projects/ presentations.

Create, or have your students create, choose-your-own-adventure style stories. You can integrate cultural norms in the options for each step of the story.

There is no denying the fact that the type of students we teach today are completely different from last century. Today, we need to look at some of the skills we, as teachers, need to equip ourselves with to better live up to the challenge. Among all the challenges we have in education, we need to catch students' focus and get them engaged in the learning process. Here is a list of some important digital skills that you, as a teacher, need to seriously consider if you want to pave the way for the 21st century teaching.

My favorite one is the use of infographics to visually stimulate students! I am aware of the importance of such a skill and it is the only skill that I haven't tried to acquire yet! I hope that those abe will get me there. Thanks for sharing.

Van Nood explains that after spending years with paper portfolios, he transitioned this concept into digital form, and have started to implement Evernote as the primarily system for creating portfolios in his classroom. He was using portfolios with limited success and spending a lot of time on them, until Evernote came into the picture. When he first started researching options, he was coming across a lot of companies that were really expensive, charging a lot for each student's use. He also knew that he needed an app for mobile devices that would make it easy to capture and document paperwork and he wasn't finding that in most of the tools I was evaluating. Evernote was free, had an app for virtually every device, and he could get started right away.

A fee-based site that allows you to have your students blog in a secure setting. Create individual or group blogs, and keep track easily of students' participation

Start a WordPress blog or create a free website in seconds. Choose from over 200 free, customizable themes. Free support from awesome humans. I think language students - from beginner to advanced - can improve reading and writing skills through blog usage. Adding multimedia elements can help inspire creativity, encourage digital literacy, etc.

The easy way to create and share extraordinary videos of your life. Our online video maker turns your photos, video clips and music into video in minutes. I can envision using Animoto in an Intermediate Spanish course and having students document - in audio and video - part of their day, be it what they ate for dinner in campus dining hall or a trip to a local museum, etc.

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you can make and share on any device. I think the artwork might help inspire even the most tentative of L2 writers. I can envision using this in a beginning Spanish course, to get students thinking creatively.

A "hot/cold" interactive map game to find major cities in France. In French with audio and visual clues

A new application by Google that can be used by teachers and students. Students can create, upload, assemble, and present their work.

This is very similar to the Evernote e-Portfolio at https://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fblog.evernote.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F02%2F28%2Fhow-to-create-a-portfolio-with-evernote-education-series%2F?gname=umuc_edtc_wl Thanks for sharing!

This helpful summary of a recent #langchat Twitter discussion resonates with me personally, since I have taught primarily according to textbooks in the past. The concerns and responses described in the blog are very helpful for me, in changing up the paradigm I've grown used to.