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This tool helps to improve your students speaking by assigning speaking activities for homework. It is $ 20 a year for instructors and a minimum of $ 5 fee for a student to use it.

This article details various ways to assess student speaking skills quickly in class; aligns with recent ACTFL conference presentations.

This webinar take you throught the process iof creating a rubric using a speaking class as an example.

A free Windows text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes. It contains a talking dictionary and a text-to-mp3 converter. WordTalk: A CALL Scotland website.  Can be used with languages other than English

This is an excellent resource for finding target language newspapers from around the world.  I would give my students a country and a topic and have them research that topic (ie, the environment).  Or, we could focus on a global topic and compare/contrast how it is being presented in different target-language speaking countries (ie.  North Korea crisis)

LanguageGuide.org is an online language learning resource available in numerous languages ranging from English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, to Korean. This illustrated vocabulary guide contains sound-integrated exercises at three levels -- beginner, intermediate, and advanced, and allows for independent practice at the learner's own pace. These practice exercises are appropriate for elementary and middle school students and this resource would be well suited on a teacher webpage. Thematic topics vary by language but generally include numbers, parts of the body, clothing, food, animals, weather, home, and school. There is an option menu on each screen for listening, speaking, and reading practice, as well as a quiz for students to check their comprehension. Some languages also feature a Grammar and Readings section for more advanced learners.

I am interested in using this in exchange with a Spanish-speaking country

This is a great website for all types of graphic organizers to help students with their speaking, writing, or just general ideas.

Video email; records an audio and video presentation. Free.

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.

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.

The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Italian and Italian culture. Start speaking Italian in minutes with audio and video lessons, audio dictionary, and learning community!

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.