Tech+Tools

toc //Post links to helpful technology-related tools for teaching and learning languages here.//

=Assessment Tools= //This link will take you to a different wiki//

=Creativity Tools=

Annotation Creation
- Similar to Kahoot & Zaption--upload media and create interactive questions based on the media

- Upload a text, determine categories for highlight, publish and allow others to highlight, pie charts summarizing percentage of highlights are designed to provoke further discussion

- "Annotate" an online article with relevant videos, insert polls, etc., that students can touch and watch without losing the article on their iPads or smartphones.

- Search for images in the TL, then "annotate" them with audio, links, text, or videos

- Annotate various segments of video (great for having students make interpretive claims and provide evidence/interpretation for them

 - Annotate videos

Audio Creation
- Text-to-speech: type your text in the box, select from m/f native speaker voices in many languages (including LCTLs), adjust speech rate and voice shaping, then download your file

- Excellent, free audio recording & editing software

- Create 3-min. audio files from your browser or mobile, publish, Tweet, etc.

- Take any image, add a mouth to it, record something for it to say, and watch it become a moving conversationalist!
 * [|Gargoyle with a headache (French)]
 * [|La fatigue de la migration (a crow and a mouse converse)] (French)
 * [|La casa inteligente]
 * [|El sacapuntas del futuro]
 * [|Spoke German Story (Einstein)]
 * [|German 3 Architect]
 * [|Chinese (Guy)]
 * [|Chinese 12.2.11 (Giraffe)]

- Upload photos, record a message, and share


 * [|Adolescents Americans vs. Adolescents][|Francais] - Example in French comparing teenage life in the U.S. and France
 * [|Adopt-a-Pet for Spanish 101] - Example in Spanish
 * [|Apprendre le francais (Tips for learning French, written in French)]
 * [|Chinese Oral] - Example of an oral exam in Chinese
 * [|Chinese Picture Description] - Example in Chinese of a student describing a photo from a play
 * [|Delia (Mi monstruo tiene)]
 * [|Deutsch 1 LMS (Talks about culturally authentic report card in German)]
 * [|Final Francais Oral - Parte 4]
 * [|Fingers for Spanish (Emotions)]
 * [|Francais 95's fotobabble] - Example in beginning French about a visit to an art museum
 * [|Japanese City/Town/Village] - Description of a Japanese community
 * [|Japanese City Park] - Description of a Japanese park
 * [|Meine Famille (German)]
 * [|Monkey King] - Example in fluent Chinese of storytelling
 * [|My Fotobabble (Gustar + Foods)]
 * [|Nachito (Mi monstruo tiene)]
 * [|Nicole's Casa]
 * [|Plan Parte 1 (La salud)]
 * [|Qual é o seu nome?] - Example in Portuguese of two people introducing themselves
 * [|Un peu de phonétique]
 * [|Was isst du Mittag?]

- Record your speech, it turns it into music and even alters your voice in some cases

- Give audio assignments, make audio quizzes, etc.



- Students can upload an image (such as artwork), create an avatar, and record their own voices telling their stories using their cell phones or iPads

- Create your own sound files, enhance your voice with effects, turn your voice into an instrument, save, and share

- Click, record, share

- Easy way to connect photos and voices--particularly useful for emphasizing language without ignoring visual (in FL classes, for example). Would also be great for capturing family history


 * [|Chinese Radicals]
 * [|Voicethread Project Sample in Spanish]

- Speaking avatars


 * [|Edgehill College Spanish Blog (Ben describe el medioambiente)]
 * [|German Voki]
 * [|Japanese Voki]
 * [|Voki poèmes]
 * [|Voki Project] - Helpful example of project directions for Spanish
 * [|Voki Project Samples] - In Spanish

Backchannel Chat
- Very robust, free chat tool that can be embedded, lots of administrative controls (including blacklisting and privacy tools), saves chat transcripts.



- A great tool for professional networking and keeping up with the latest developments in your chosen fieldin 140 characters or less!

- Great place for students to share their writing with authentic audiences. Display allows readers to follow individual student work, or to see all work from a particular teacher's class.
 * [|Animal Reports]
 * [|4th Grade Kidblog]

Book Creation
- Create free photobooks from copyright-safe Flickr images and a template

- Create e-books that can be read by any e-reader

- Create and share photo scrapbooks online (you can also print them)


 * [|Linguafolio Español]
 * [|Comida española deliciosa]
 * [|Las comidas de España]
 * [|Bienvenida a la ciudad de Memphis]
 * [|Mi viaje a Utah]

Brainstorming & Problem-solving
// (See also: Concept Map Creation, Graphic Organizer Creation) //

- Make a "to do" list, it helps you prioritize your tasks through a series of forced choices

- Allows threaded brainstorming

- Allows teacher to pose a question, students can post arguments (labeled pro or con) and can comment and vote on one another's responses

- Tool that you could use to support collaborative brainstorming, questioning, etc.

Brochures
[|My Brochure Maker] - Brochures

- Very intuitive interface for creating booklets and brochures (similar to Issuu)

Coding Tools
- Pre-existing project templates for comic, generator, meme, and website creation in code that students can modify in order to learn to code

Comics & Cartoon Creation
- Students can create their own Peewee comics by mixing and matching backgrounds, characters, props, adding text, and printing their creations user:chericem1


 * [[image:MakeBeliefsComix.png link="http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/"]]- Comic generator site lets you select from a number of different characters, change their emotions, overlap elements, rescale things, etc.

- Comic strip creation site that will take Chinese characters (and translate them) - courtesy of Aaron Bray

- A phenomenal site with stock characters that will appeal to students and allows them to create truly original work user:chericem1

- Step-by-step interactive comic creation template from //ReadWriteThink//

- A really nice site that lets you drag and drop characters, props, and even speed lines, etc. into comic frames. You can position things in front of or behind other things using the buttons at the bottom. Very intuitive and kid friendly. Be sure to click on all the buttons (Suggested by [|vidgan1])


 * [|Deutsch II]
 * [|Francais bande dessine]
 * [|Francais HW]
 * [|Mayan Civilization (in Spanish)]
 * [|Me gusta escuela]
 * [|Wir lernen deutsch]

Concept Map Creation
//(See also: Brainstorming & Problem-solving, Graphic Organizer Creation)//

- Simple concept mapping tool (Heavily used in the edtech community w/ K-12 students - easy to use - limited formatting - esp. good for elementary, special flash effects are fun at first)

- Free social concept mapping tools that allow you to collaborate, attach documents and images, etc. (requires registration)

[|Concept Mapping Tools]

- Generate graphic organizers that are embeddable

[|Exploratree] (Templates)

[|Freemind] (Free from Sourceforge, but requires download)

- (Heavily used in the edtech community w/ K-12 students - very robust (but ugly) interface. Allows you to upload your own images, includes many libraries of images, shapes, etc.; also allows you to do floor plans)

- (Real-time, collaborative mind-mapping with chat; Beautiful interface, not quite as intuitive as some of the others, but can handle attachments of multimedia, documents, etc., and produces a more professional product)

- [Collaborative, online, real-time mind-mapping with wiki-like features (i.e., history, etc.)]

- Collaborative concept-mapping, accepts character-based languages, allows linking to multimedia

- Use this generator to create a target diagram, then save and share

**Digital Storytelling**
- Very simple, easy-to-use interface allows you to upload or draw images, add text, record your voice, then play and even embed your story


 * [|El partido de fútbol] (Spanish with drawings)
 * [|Enhörningen och den magiska regnbågen]
 * [|La belgique] (French with sound effects and one photo)
 * [|La familia Rose] (Spanish with photos - class recording in background)
 * [|La leyenda de el armadillo] (Spanish with photos - no sound)
 * [|La viva de animales] (Simple Spanish with photos - no sound)
 * [|Les vacances en Holland] (French with culturally authentic photos and a native speaker)
 * [|Mi persona favorita] (Spanish with photos)
 * [|Sagan om det lilla hjärtat]

- Students can read myths and legends, or create their own in multiple languages using these cool tools. Does require registration.

- Electronic template for creating stories--allows linking to social media

- Students can select illustrations from real children's picture book illustrators, then use them to illustrate their own, original stories. Diacritical marks must be cut and pasted in (via Word, for example)


 * French Examples
 * German Examples
 * Italian Examples
 * Spanish Examples

- Allows students to create and illustrate stories, save them, embed them, and share them. Student-created stories can be viewed in other languages such as French, Polish, and Spanish by clicking on the library link.

[|Kathy Schrock's Guide to Digital Storytelling]

[|Storytelling]

Flyer Creation
- Extremely simple drag-and-drop templates that allow online, embeddable, multimedia newsletter creation for different purposes. Would be very useful for elementary students.

Form Creation
[|Copia] - Choose language (Catalán, English, French, Gallego, Spanish), input title, footer, and text, set parameters, and it will generate a writing practice worksheet for children (cuadros or not, tracing or not, etc.)

- Build your own forms and generate reports

Game Creation
- Create jeopardy-like games

- Create interactive games

- Create games with virtual reality components by modifying existing game templates. Explore the support tools for scaffolding worksheets.

Generators
- Create crazy zoo animal avatars (See also: )

- A blog that attempts to provide ideas of things you can create using free, web 2.0 tools. Many would be excellent ways to tell stories

- Wanted poster generator

- Generate fake Facebook profiles

- Create fake conversations with Siri

- Create fake text messages from the carrier of your choice (don't put spaces between the lines) - Select (or upload) a photo, insert text and subtext, reposition it, and generate an image/meme

Graphic Organizer Creation
// (See also: Brainstorming & Problem-solving, Concept Map Creation) //

- Simple concept mapping tool

- Create a hamburger diagram

- Choose a 2- or 3-circle Venn diagram, then change the labels, add notes, save, and share

- Free social concept mapping tools that allow you to collaborate, attach documents and images, etc. (requires registration)

- Generate graphic organizers that are embeddable

- Create diagrams, graphic organizers

- Free, collaborative concept-mapping



- Collaborative concept-mapping, accepts character-based languages, allows linking to multimedia

= Use this generator to create a target diagram, then save and share

Infographic Creation
[|What is an Infographic]

[|Reasons Your Brain Craves Infographics]

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- Create infographics from templates or from scratch, then share them

- Create interactive infographics (with audio, charts, graphs, images, text, and video) from templates, then share them - Create infographics w/ drag and drop - For visual CVs - For creating visual CVs

- Easy-to-use tool for generating visual résumés

Invitation Creation
- Design invitations and send them via e-mail. See who has RSVP'd

iPad Apps
- Allows teachers to control classroom AV from iPad screen (free)

- Interactive whiteboard with a simple interface that allows students to create and screencast presentations

[|Explain Everything] - Allows you to make various objects (browser, shapes, etc.) embeddable; annotations stay with the screen you created; then screencast export as an image or movie (for iPad - costs $3)

[|Friendstrip Pro] - Comic creation

- A lengthy list of applications

- Create and share audio on your iPad

- Extremely simple interface, perfect for early elementary, that allows them to work with an interactive whiteboard, record their voices, and then create a screencast and share link (from TechSmith for iPad)

- Allows you to select, crop, and organize photos, record a story as a voiceover, then save and share via iPhone or iPad. (More info. on [|Shadow Puppet])

- Students can upload an image (such as artwork), create an avatar, and record their own voices telling their stories using their cell phones or iPads

[|Toontastic] - Free, downloadable comic creation software

- "Annotate" an online article with relevant videos, insert polls, etc., that students can touch and watch without losing the article on their iPads or smartphones.

Journal Creation
- Free, online, collaborative suite of office tools (forms, presentations, spreadsheets, word processing)

- Online notetaking application

- Online journaling that allows you to attach photos

Wikispaces - Use a wiki to remove writer's block--allows you to make continual changes to your text, to move things around, and to keep a constant outline of the various sections of your writing in view via the navigation bar. If you cut a section, but think you might want to use it later? No problem--just make a "parts pile" page, paste the deleted section in, and find it later. Also removes the "Word crashed and I lost everything" phenomenon. Everything you type is captured in the history (as long as you save frequently), and you can always revert to a previous version of the paper if you change your mind midstream. GREAT for collaborative authoring as well.

Magazine Creation


- Create your own magazines

- Create your own, digital magazines
 * [|Charoná]
 * [|Rik, el niño sin imaginación]

- Very intuitive interface for creating booklets and brochures (similar to Issuu)

- Create flippable magazines or reports for free (from uploaded PDFs)

Map Creation
- Create your own maps, add points of interest, download, and upload to your own website for free (hosting on their servers costs $)

- Create a map, add photos, videos, and comments, then share with others

- Tag locations on a map and share with others

Mashup Creation
- Aggregate news and information from around the web via RSS feeds that display in tabs

Newsletter Creation
- Create newsletters with photos from templates and host up to 10 online for free at any given time

- Extremely simple drag-and-drop templates that allow online, embeddable, multimedia newsletter creation for different purposes. Would be very useful for elementary students.

PDF Creation
- Upload a document, it turns it into an editable PDF

- Create PDFs for free (download the program, the select print, change the printer to CutePDF, and voila!)

- Allows you to make any PDF editable and send it electronically

- "Write" on the PDFs you save

- Free PDF editor that works in your browser

[|PDF Toolbox: 40 Tools to Rip, Mix, & Burn PDFs (from Mashable)] Create PDFs for free (download the program, the select print, change the printer to CutePDF, and voila!)

Photo Effects
- Photo effects

- Create badges, billboards, CD covers, collages, cubes, jigsaw puzzles, magazine covers, mosaics, movie posters, trading cards, and more

- Very robust, online photo editing site

- Free editor allows you to easily remove backgrounds from images (i.e., the white space)

- Select (or upload) a photo, insert text and subtext, reposition it, and generate an image/meme

- Upload a photo, select from a comprehensive list of photo effects, then save, create an avatar, etc. Photos deleted every 2 hours

Polls, Questionnaires, Quizzes, & Surveys


- Lets you poll large groups of people so you can schedule meetings and events

- Similar to Padlet, but students can vote on ideas that are posted

- Set up meetings, see a grid of people's availability

- Create your own polls that students answer via text (extremely basic)

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- Quickly post a question and watch as the votes change while students text their answers to the poll. You can also download your poll as a PowerPoint slide to include in a presentation

- Robust survey tool with built-in analytics that allows skip logic and innovative question formats (such as rank ordering)





- Create up to 10 questions with up to 100 respondents for free (as many surveys as you wish), with some analytics built in. Allows you to embed or generate an e-mail link, and to track IPs.



- Select dates and times, then attendees paint over which ones work best for them, and can leave comments

- Create forms and generate reports

- Visual portfolio-like app

**Poster Creation**

- Free, multimedia poster-maker. Set up student accounts for educational use.


 * [|All About Me Project (Spanish)] Note that students can include their own voices!
 * [|Spanish Vida Sana Project]
 * [|Spanish 3 Instructions]
 * [|Joan Miró]
 * [|Pablo Picasso]
 * [|Les freres lumieres (French)]
 * [|Linguistics Poster (University Level)]Glogster can be useful for helping university students prepare research for poster sessions at conferences

- Create motivational posters by adding your own photos and text

Presentation Creation
- BEAUTIFUL drag and drop templates and software for presentations, posters, and memes

- Create cloud-based presentations from templates that can be viewed on various devices

- Very robust software, available for web or for iPad

- Quickly create slide shows with captions, text, photos, and quiz questions


 * [|La famille] - Slideshow that uses possessive adjectives, family vocab., and famous people to create a fictional family in French
 * [|Fotos del espacio] - Slideshow of photos of black holes, supernovas, etc., labeled in Spanish
 * [|Polar Bear Quiz] - Interactive quiz about polar bears and their habitat
 * [|¿Vida o sida?] - Slideshow about AIDS in Spanish (note, some images may not be suitable for classroom use
 * [|Y ahora . . . qué?] - Slideshow about aging in Spanish

- Create dynamic, non-linear presentations and concept maps


 * [|Storytelling]

- Allows you to audio narration onto a slideshow

- Upload ppt presentations to share with others (Example: [|STARTALK: Developing Teacher Leaders])

- Upload an image, it turns it into an interactive puzzle
 * [|Chinese Example] - Students assemble the characters to create a sentence

QR Code Creation
- Print off the PDFs of the QR codes, assign a student name for each number, kids answer questions by holding up card oriented based on A,B, C, or D, teacher scans will cell phone (Android or iPhone), it aggregates the data online for teacher.

- Input questions, it generates the QR codes for you

Rubric Creation
- Tool allows you to create customizable rubrics aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

- SUPER easy-to-use tool that generates a very professional rubric

- Edit existing rubrics or create your own

- Free rubric-making tool aligned to Common Core State Standards

[|Explain Everything] - Allows you to make various objects (browser, shapes, etc.) embeddable; annotations stay with the screen you created; then screencast export as an image or movie (for iPad - costs $3)

- Free screencasting (requires free download)

- Extremely simple interface, perfect for early elementary, that allows them to work with an interactive whiteboard, record their voices, and then create a screencast and share link (from TechSmith for iPad)



Social Media Creation


- An online community similar to Twitter, but designed for use in education

- Generate fake text messages

- Type in a Twitter hashtag, it grabs the tweets and creates a bulletin board of them

- Create fake Tweets using this generator

Story Map Creation


[|Storymaps] - Create place-based sequential narratives grounded in geographical maps



Tag Cloud Creation
- Tag cloud generator for elementary students

- Type in text, it generates a tag cloud you can print on t-shirts

- Make tag (word) clouds in different shapes - Upload your text (or the URL of your blog) to make tag clouds in all sorts of very detailed shapes - Make your own tag (word) cloud media type="custom" key="4970681" ([|Why Wordle?])

Text Creation
- Input your text, select your font, and it will generate banners, buttons, etc.

- Create embeddable timelines that include photos, audio, videos, etc.

- Create collaborative timelines with text, photos, and videos. You can also choose a type of album, answer questions, and it will generate it for you

Timers
- Online Stopwatch - Use this to monitor group work, to count down how much "English Break Time" is left, etc.

Video Creation
- Upload photos, select your music, and then it will turn them into videos
 * [|Rubric for Assessing a Digital Storytelling Project] (Scroll down to p. 2)



- Create animated videos from stock characters, images, music, and effects, or upload your own and lay them in tracks. Students have to type text into Word and then copy and paste it in order to get diacritical marks.
 * [|Chinese III Dating Story]
 * [|Episode 1 Scene 2: La tourmente]
 * [|Mi rutina]
 * [|Revolution Francaise]
 * [|Spanish Project]

- Create RSA Animate-style videos from templates

- Create animated videos and caption them in the target language


 * [|Panda Bob Supershow (Spanish)]

- Video editing in a browser (collaborative if you pay)

- Make flash movies for free (14-day free trial, then you have to pay)

- Free audio/video editing software you can download and use to make mashups

- Allows you to create seamless video mashup presentations.


 * [|Ditongos portugueses]
 * [|Mi casa es lo mejor]
 * [|Preguntas de la familia (Spanish & English)]
 * [|Zoom sur les métiers: le fleuriste]

**Visual CVs**
- For visual CVs

- For creating visual CVs

- Easy-to-use tool for generating visual résumés

**Webquest Creation**

[|Webquest Generator]

**Website Creation**

- Free, online website creation

- Create free flash websites

**Whiteboard Creation** //(Collaborative Workspaces)//

- Collaborative whiteboard

- Similar to Padlet, but students can vote on ideas that are posted

[|Dweeber] - Collaborative workspace

- Free, very robust "pin board" that accepts documents, images, and video links and allows you to change backgrounds, no sign-up required

- Interactive whiteboard

- Put your own text on a Post-it note image

- Collaborative workspace that includes a whiteboard

[|Wallwisher] - Collaboratively "graffiti" by posting "stickies" on this online "wall"

- Collaborative workspace that includes calendaring, file sharing, polling, textingin, to do lists, videoconferencing, voice messaging, etc.

Wiki Creation
Wikispaces- Make your own wiki!
 * [|AFLTA Festival Wiki] - Publicize language festivals
 * [|Autonomous Technology-Assisted Language Learning - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks] - A wiki-book by Gary Cziko
 * Bishop Blogs
 * [|Chinese (Mandarin) - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks] - Not a very well developed text, but could be used for ideas.
 * [|Curriki - BrowseSearch] - Wiki designed for resource sharing that contains entries from multiple subject areas (365 entries for FL)
 * DHS Espanol
 * [|Deutsch 21] - Create curriculum projects across schools
 * Digitale-schule - Create separate pages for small group work to guide students in dividing up project responsibilities, gathering necessary information, and working through the writing process
 * Español 3: Wesley - Display individual student work
 * [|Ecce Romani Wiki / German Exchange] - Organize exchange trips
 * Flat Classroom Project - Develop transliteracy skills by engaging in the collaborative exploration of real-world issues through social technologies
 * FL Teaching Wiki - Have students collaboratively develop and display content as a resource for others (higher ed)
 * Flushing French
 * Fun/Chinese - Plan lessons and keep an organized repository of resources
 * Gramatica - Grammar lessons
 * Intercultural-it-aus - Converse with students from the target culture and [|discuss cultural perspectives] using chat, discussion forums, or Skype
 * International Collaborative Wiki - Jerusalem - Facilitate joint explorations of literature and culture (among students in Canada and Jerusalem in this case)
 * KWR-Deutschwiki - Create galleries of student work that demonstrate the growth of students' language skills
 * Learning Latin America
 * Le français, le FLE, les TICE . . . - Comics in the target language
 * LHSWLC: District Rubrics - Articulate curriculum across schools
 * LHSWLC: Spanish Cover Sheets - Articulate curriculum across sections
 * Loveland High School Professional Learning Communities Wiki Workspace - Facilitate professional learning communities
 * Madame Krause's Wiki - Cultural video
 * Madame Shackelford - Organize unit resources (L'Afrique Francophone)
 * MadameSpace
 * MIC USI français - Post assignment models
 * Mon Espace
 * NHS German - Post homework calendars
 * [|Park School Languages Wiki] - Collaboratively brainstorm grant proposals
 * [|Pormesfleurs Wiki] - Involve parents in reinforcing what their children are learning
 * Tarea - Listening exercises and comprehension questions
 * [|Toulouse Study Abroad Program] - Manage study abroad programs
 * [|Vermont FL Teachers Tech Resources] - Participate in professional world language associations
 * Waterford School Japanese - Post course syllabi, assignment instructions, and worksheets
 * [|We Are the World] - Develop interdisciplinary curriculum across grade levels
 * [|Wikiaula] - Automatically notify students and parents any time a page is updated using the RSS feature of the page.
 * Wikitaller - Post copies of presentations or video clips showed during class


 * Writing Tools **

- Real-time collaboration (see also [|PrimaryPad] which requires a paid account)

[|Write About This] - Free app with photo writing prompts for kids

=Administrative Tools=

This another tool that allows you to set up text reminders and alerts for you classroom. This site is a little more complex than remind101 below but gives you access to more features such as getting input from RSS or Twitter and sending polls directly to phones by text without the need for a smartphone or a projector. This service can also be set up to send out text reminders from events on your google calandar. I'll include a tutorial here.user:darcoza

[|50 Open Source Tools That Replace Popular Education Apps] This is a web 2.0 tool that allows you to link online services to automate online tasks that you don't want to perform manually. The service can be used to do a large variety of things including automatically posting to facebook, downloading images of yourself others upload, sending automatic tweets, checking the weather, checking RSS feeds, and combining your google calandar with all kinds of stuff. It's a very powerful tool in general but can be used for classroom applications as well. Check it out.user:darcoza

I've included a tutorial on how to use this to text homework reminders from your Google Calendar.

this is an alternative operating system that allows you to reuse older computers for your classroom. The link takes you to their website where they include instructions on how to install it on a computer as either a dual-boot for windows or to replace the operating system all together. If you're curious about using this in the classroom feel free to contact me I can give you more detailed instructions on how to install it and how it can be used to manage your classes computers simply. Just click my name and hit send message -> user:darcoza

This is a way to simply transfer files that are too large to send by email.user:darcoza

- Pull the audio from any YouTube video here

Listentoyoutube.com - pull the audio from any youtube video here

This is a tool that allows you to set up text reminders for your classroom. It is fairly simple to use requiring only an account and having students sign up by texting the classes keyword to a number. Also supports scheduling so that you can plan the texts to be sent out at a future date.user:darcoza

- Allows students to calculate accuracy, self-correction ratio, etc., when reading aloud

TeamViewer is a program that allows you to remote control another computer. This allows you to control your pc from a smart phone or tablet so that you can walk around the room during a presentation. It also allows you transfer files between computers or access files you forgot on your home or school computer from any other computer. Additionally it can be used as meeting software to allow you to video chat while showing your screen to up to 25 other computers which is good if you need to show the class how to do a new task or if you need to show someone how to do something from a distance. Its a very powerful free tool that you should play around with.user:darcoza

=Course Management Tools= - Free, online course management system that allows teachers to create classes, track student information, etc.

- Free, online learning management platform that allows teachers to engage students in discussions, polls, and projects. Also has reporting features.

- Collaborative social community (a la Facebook) for students and teachers in

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=Cybersafety=



- Paste a YouTube link into the box. It eliminates ads (similar to ViewPure) - Copy and paste a YouTube link into the window. It allows you to view the video on a plain white or black screen without ads or suggested videos at the end.

=Filesharing & Conversion Tools=

- Requires download
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- Upload documents to share with others - Similar to Divshare, but with an expiration time (from 30 minutes to 1 week). Super simple interface. Easy for technophobes.

- Extremely simple interface. Simply browse for your file, type in the e-mail address of the recipient, and click Send!

- Convert documents to PDFs while maintaining hyperlinks

- Send large files to others using this service

=Fundraising Tools=

- Propose a classroom project. Donors can donate to your cause = = - Online fundraising. . . quickly create a webpage regarding the cause of your choice, send the link to associates, clients, family, and friends, and track your progress

- Online fundraising: Solicit pledges, people pay via credit card or Paypal, but accounts are not charged until at least $1,000 is raised. Project does not have to be service-oriented

- Information on grants for K-12 schools

=Language Learning Tools=

- Select from a wide variety of languages - Basically an online conjugation dictionar--select a language in the upper, left-hand corner, input a verb, and it conjugates it for you

- Enter a URL and this tool will make every word on the page clickable so that you can look up translations in a variety of languages

- Select a language and a song (easy, medium, etc.), and it generates a worksheet with dropdown menus for inputting missing lyrics. You can also use it in karaoke mode. Sometimes it is linked to the YouTube video user:chericem1

- Select a language and a music video, it plays the video with a second screen that highlights the lyrics below the video. When you come to an elipses, you type in the missing characters. It provides correction. user:chericem1

- Fabulous website allows you to select current news articles (from an existing collection), select a reading level, and the site modifies the article based on the reading level you have selected. Each article comes with standards-based comprehension quizzes and teachers can obtain student results as well. Free sign-up

- Search for texts based on genre, difficulty level, and word count. Create a library of online and uploaded texts in a diverse array of languages (including many LCTLs), generate a personal dictionary and flashcards, get help with translation, etc.

- Allows you to type diacritical marks in a variety of languages even if you don't have an international keyboard

=Lesson Planning Tools=

- This tool uses a lengthy list of questions to guide teachers through the process of selecting, evaluating, and scaffolding tasks for lessons in close reading that are aligned with the Common Core



- Beautiful, customizable software; click and point text entry; sometimes gets hung up

[|Google Docs Lesson Planning Templates]

- Very nice, clickable interface; allows teachers to save materials in a "portfolio"





- Very basic click and type calendar; allows you to repeat lessons, push to Google Calendar, and print

- Interface is a little old-fashioned, but it does provide both an outline view and a box view for typing, allows linking to Utah Core Standards (English/Language Arts, Math, Science, & Social Studies), allows linking to a curriculum map, has test creation features (including a place for reading passages), course website features, and professional networking features

=Map Tools= - Free program that allows you to see 3-dimensional views of the earth, cities, etc.

=Music Tools=

- Select a language and a song (easy, medium, etc.), and it generates a worksheet with dropdown menus for inputting missing lyrics. You can also use it in karaoke mode. Sometimes it is linked to the YouTube video user:chericem1

- Select a language and a music video, it plays the video with a second screen that highlights the lyrics below the video. When you come to an elipses, you type in the missing characters. It provides correction. user:chericem1

- You select the artist or genre and it generates a station that plays music similar to the style of the selected artist

- Search for songs, save them, and then make the playlist available to your students by giving them the direct link or embedding it into a wiki or website

=PLN Tools=

- An online community for similar to Facebook

- An online community comprised of both university professors and K-12 teachers

- Online social bookmarking (I prefer to bookmark in Diigo and retrieve through Delicious)

- An online community that allows you to engage in discussions; annotate, highlight, and archive webpages; and save and share bookmarks with like-minded colleagues

- An online community that allows you to chat with colleagues, create events, hold discussions, post links/photos/resources/videos, and share information with different groups of people

- Directory of RSS feeds to which you can subscribe

- A professional listserv with a circulation of over 6,000 K-12 teachers, researchers, scholars, and university professors from around the world involved in world language education

- [|Linked In in Plain English video]

- Create your own online community

- A series of "unconferences" for people interested in intersections between the humanities and technology

- Tool you can use to manage Facebook and Twitter feeds

- A great tool for professional networking and keeping up with the latest developments in your chosen fieldin 140 characters or less! ( - Use this search tool to find people to follow on Twitter)

People to follow:

__**Educational Technology**__

chrislehmann (Chris Lehmann - Administration) courosa (Alec Courous - Canada) dwarlick (David Warlick) gsiemens (George Siemens) hrheingold (Howard Rheingold - Digital Journalism) irasocol (Ira Socol - Michigan, Assistive Tech) kanter (Beth Kanter - Non-profits) lesliedavison (Leslie Davison) oldaily (Stephen Downes) olliebray (Ollie Bray - Scotland) timlauer (Tim Lauer) wfryer (Wesley Fryer) willrich45 (Will Richardson) zephoria (Danah Boyd)

__**Other**__

ben_fry (Ben Fry) - Computer Science, Design, Visualization mashable (Pete Cashmere) - Social Media Richard_Florida (Richard Florida) - Creativity stanfordeng (Stanford Engineering) - Design, Engineering, & Innovation yochaibenkler (Yochai Benkler) - Law, Social Media

__**World Language Education**__

bplindsey (Barbara Lindsey) ckendall (Cindy Kendall - Michigan) dlfulton (Lynn Fulton-Archer - South Carolina) gaugler (Kevin Gaugler - New York) icpjones (Isabelle Jones - England) jannachiang (Janna Chiang - Kentucky) jessmcculloch (Jess McCulloch - Australia) lkolb (Liz Kolb - Michigan) lrosen (Lauren Rosen) paulinobrener (Paulino Brener) skrashen (Stephen Krashen) tmsaue1 (Thomas Sauer - Kentucky) tonitheisen (Toni Theisen - Colorado) ZJonesSpanish (Zachary Jones)

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=Productivity Tools=

- Input the name of a web 2.0 tool and it will find similar alternatives for you

[|Clarifying the Meaning of Productivity]

- Cue Prompter is a free, online teleprompter service. Cut and paste your text into the box, adjust your settings (including speed), and click the "Forward" button to make the screen play the text.

- Printable CEO Series contains printable tracking sheets to improve productivity

Getting Organized (This link will take you to another wiki)

[|File Sharing (i.e., sending large files)]

Managing the Paper Overload (This link will take you to another wiki)

- An AWESOME extension (available for both Chrome & Firefox) that allows you to grab part or all of a webpage, edit it, and then save it in a variety of image formats

- Make any webpage print friendly by pasting the link into the box and clicking submit.

- Send Tab URLs - Send a list of links from open tabs to yourself or others in an e-mail message with this Firefox extension
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 * Send Tab URLs Firefox Extension ||

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- Allows you to type diacritical marks in a variety of languages even if you don't have an international keyboard

=Professional Development=

Conferences
- A database of current conferences from a variety of fields. [|Click here for Languages & Linguistics]

- Subscribe to alerts about upcoming conferences based on parameters you specify

Study Abroad
- Searchable by country and university, allows program ratings and reviews

**Reference Tools**



- Type in 2 search terms to see which is most popular


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- Enter a URL and this tool will make every word on the page clickable so that you can look up translations in a variety of languages



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- An online dictionary, available in many languages, with links to discussion forums about usage in various contexts

=Research Tools=



- Search the citations other scholars are bookmarking (from SpringerLink)



- Save your bookmarks (a.k.a. "favorites") online & then access them from any computer

- Same as Delicious, but on steroids (allows highlighting and archiving of webpages, social interaction, etc.)

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- Citation tool

- Make information come to you. Set up the alert and it searches the web and delivers updates to you

- Search for only scholarly articles



- Gathers news from blogs, newspapers, and other media sources on topics of interest to professionals in specific industries. Available as an e-mail digest, RSS feed, etc. ACTFL collaborates with SmartBrief to produce one specific to professionals in world language education. There is also a generic education one.

- Maintain an annotated, sharable research library with searchable, printable notes and reports

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=Video Conferencing Tools=

- Free videoconferencing for up to 8 people

- Videoconference with colleagues

- Hold videoconferences with colleagues from around the world for free

- Team messaging that allows filesharing and commenting (like Google Docs). Free version only allows 2 people



- Free collaborative meeting software (requires download)

=Video Manipulation Tools=

- Allows you to add subtitles in other languages to an existing YouTube video

[|Applian FLV Player]

- Pull the audio from any YouTube video here - Fast, quick, and easy YouTube downloads - allows you to select filetype, strip audio from video, strip video from audio, etc.

[|18 Free Ways to Download Any Video Off the Internet]

- Create video-based lessons with the annotation and class monitoring tools in this intuitive, easy-to-use, open platform

- Paste a YouTube link into the box. It eliminates ads (similar to ViewPure)

- Show specific segments of YouTube videos - Create video-based discussion threads

- Vibby - Upload up to 500MB of video, then bookmark particular segments within it or allow others to comment on it

- Open source video player that will play almost anything

- Copy and paste a YouTube link into the window. It allows you to view the video on a plain white or black screen without ads or suggested videos at the end.

- Download and convert YouTube videos = =

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- Videos

- Videos

- Videos

- Videos

**Writing Tools for Character-based Languages**

- For Arabic

[|Magic Typer for Russian (& Arabic)]



- This website scaffolds students through writing characters, including correct stroke order and pronunciation, in Japanese & Chinese

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