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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 

Account is free; find collaborative projects with students around the world. Has a limited number of free student epals account too.

ePals is a free web 2.0 resource that provides language classes the opportunity to connect with target language speakers around the globe. Communication can range from simple email messages to wiki and blog collaboration to multimedia presentations and even Skype video chat. Teachers can monitor all activity, for the sake of student security. A potential project would be for both groups - advanced level students in the local L2 group - to read the same story or poem and then use the ePals blog tool to share opinions (targeting writing skills) and later the Skype video chat to discuss (or perhaps debate) the text (targeting oral skills).

A huge resource of many types of data visualizations 

Now you can create interactive charts in Excel.  A MUST for the 615 class

Great tool for online projects/ presentations.

A cute, but effective, video presentation for novice French language learners explaining the difference between when to use "on" and "nous".

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

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!

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

Prezi is similar to PPT, but it's interactive. You can have several people collaborate on it. It's non-linear and is not in slide format, but rather in a big canvas and you control where the focus goes. The zoom and pan out feature is really cool as well.

Shared by Cindy Kendall on Twitter. Lots of examples of formative assessments that you might be able to use/modify for 610 projects.