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 Quia is a great resource for teachers and allows educators to make interactive games, flashcards, crossword puzzles and other activities for any discipline. Downside is that it requires a subscription, about $50 per year. |
 italki is a social network for language learners. It doesn't offer online courses, but it does provide an easy way to connect to others that are native speakers of your target language and language learners of your native tongue. |
 The BBC website offers some basic language learning online courses that are absolutely free. There is a slim selection of languages, but some useful language for travel can be easily gained by taking a few of their lessons. |
 Ajaxtrans is a language translation service that has Ajax capability, basically you can see your translation appear in the target language as you type. |
 This site looks a little hokey, and has some annoying adds, but also has some very good content. There are excellent vocabulary builders in Spanish and links to a number of interesting and useful resources for Spanish teachers and Spanish learners. |
 Chuala (pronounced koala) is an online wiki database of phonetic pronunciation in over 100 languages. An excellent resource for helping language learners pronounce sounds that don't exist in their native tongue. |
 Study Spanish dot com is a commercial site that will not hesitate to tell you how to purchase their program, however they have a very useful "free stuff" section that provides links to great grammar drills and other free resources. |
 Neulio is a site that I chose to highlight even though it has no language learning resources as of yet. It is a relatively new site and it's intention is to be an educational youtube. Each user-created video is a lesson within a course, and the use of what they call gates allows for users to set passwords to lessons. |
 The literacy center has interactive activities for beginners in Spanish, French, German and English. It is easy and fun to learn colors, numbers, letters and shapes in all four languages by playing a few simple games. |
 Spanish Grammar Exercises is an excellent site created by a professor at Colby University. Grammar activities are presented in modules that integrate grammar, reading, culture, art and music. |
 Livemocha is a language learning social network that offers free language courses in Russian, German, French, Hindi, Chinese, English, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. It also has a chat feature with a built in translator so that you can take a risk and speak to natives with ample support. |
 Babbel is another online language learning community that only offers support and courses in German, Italian, French, Spanish and English. The pictures in their courses are better and mostly user-submitted, but their chat program is simple and has no translator. |
 Casa de Joanna is a list of links for Spanish teachers to use at their discretion. A lot of the links are simply Spanish-language resources, not specifically designed for the classroom but rather restaurant pages, newspapers and other sites written in Spanish. Many of them have great potential for being tied into curriculum units. |
 Brain Pop is a website that offers clever and entertaining animations that explain things to students in a way that is easy to understand and brief. Their Spanish component has lots to choose from and many topics connect directly to state curriculum. This site also unfortunately requires a subscription. |
 Radiolab is a podcast hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. This hour-long show is a collage of sounds and interviews that present science topics in was that is even more entertaining than television. Episodes should be screened first for age appropriateness, but this show is one of the best and its replay value is high. |
 This is a link to a wiki that some classmates and I made for out Intro to education technology class. In it are some great links to elementary ed resources, history resources and language resources. |
 Creative Commons is the post modern answer to information sharing. While a copyright license means all right reserved, a creative commons license means some rights reserved. This site can connect you to works that are free to use or change because the permission of the author has already been granted.  |
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