UMUC-EDTC-WL

This is an audio book tool that would work well with the younger students or novice level learners.

A slew of resources to help learners of all ages learn how to read and report on charts and graphs.

For all those learners/teachers interested in getting real material

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.

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

Great tool for online projects/ presentations.

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

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.

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

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

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

This is a nice site for the beginning language learner. The students have the opportunity to explore the states, politics, sports and more. A great component of the site is that the students can read the information and can have the info read to him/her

This is a website provided through Deutsche Welle. Two teams of German learners from all over the world compete with each other. A very fun and interactive learning adventure. It reminds me a little of the Amazing Race. An advantage - everything is free, videos, activities, worksheets.

Site provides a template to complete to cite in APA format.

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.

Audio resources for French by level A1, A2 etc.

A way of learning language while on the go.

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.