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Organize talkgroups for your students on a voice-based message board. Students can practice oral skills in asynchronous communication. Conversations can be private.

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Digital stories push students to become creators of content, rather than just consumers. Weaving together images, music, text, and voice, digital stories can be created in all content areas and at all grade levels while incorporating the 21st century skills of creating, communicating, and collaborating

Many free templates to create games, quizzes, activities and diagrams.

Especially interesting is the QR game that can be used in schools that allow mobile devices - check this out. Great active game for all subjects

Best online gradebooks to keep a record of students' progress and achievement.

Another gradebook you might be interested in is located at http://gradebookportal.com/ It is free and includes the following: --Free Online GradeBook for teachers to easily customize. Build customized weighted grading from anywhere at anytime 24/7. Grade anytime & anywhere with auto calculation term and final grades --Instant Progress Reports are intuitive and keep Students and Parents up to date --Track attendance and alert parents on absentees --Class Calendar keeps students, parents and teachers current on upcoming exams, meetings, events. Attach assignments, post homework and attach documents. --Build user logic to send email and text messages based on grades and attendance parameters --Communicate with all of your students and parents and build custom contact lists --100% secure and safe environment with several layers of encryption

What I like about it is the instant progress report! I use the gradebook of BlackBoard and I don't think that they have this feature.

This video introduces apps that help people communicate with others and learn language through pictures.

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.

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 collaborative site for creating comics in the second language

Highly engaging websites that teacher in form of song and games. Interest especially for middle and high school students.

This website allows students to share projects and comment on others' projects.

VoiceThread allows you to upload different media to create a project and then share it with others. Those that you share it with can collaborate with you on it by communicating through a type of discussion board.

Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

This site has thematic French vocabulary exercises that include authentic audio for topics such as the body, animals, the family, clothing, the train station, in the city, etc. It could be assigned for homework so that students can listen to the audio as many times as they like, or it could be projected on a screen for classroom use.

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.

This resource from el Centro Virtual Cervantes provides video interviews with individuals from a number of regions or cities in Latin America and Spain. Each interview is accompanied by a description of the linguistic characteristics of a particular way of speaking, a text transcript, and information on where the region is located geographically. I personally find this fascinating! I also think it could serve as a resource for students who might not be aware of how many variations there are when Spanish is spoken.

Please send your suggestions and ideas to Catherine Ousselin. This list will be updated often! Free - The SpanishDict app features a complete Spanish-English dictionary, talking phrasebook, interactive word game, and a word of the day. $ 0.99 With El Conjugador, you can conjugate all Spanish verb in one way without being connected to the Internet.

A created list of applications for mobile devices that can be used to help teach Spanish.