Dr. Dan Nickolai, Saint Louis University, iSpraak Developer and Director of the Language Resource Center iSpraak is a new web application developed at Saint Louis University that allows language teachers to create pronunciation exercises for their students. This
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By Cécile Rebolledo, PhD Candidate and GPTI in the French & Italian Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. ThingLink is a web-based tool that allows users to make any image or video clip interactive. In other words, items within the
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By Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University. Explain Everything is a whiteboard/screencasting app for iPad, iPhone, Windows tablets and desktop (not for Windows phone yet), Chrome devices,
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By Stefano Maranzana, Ph.D. candidate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, Graduate Associate in Teaching Italian at the University of Arizona. According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, an earworm is “a song or melody that keeps repeating
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Betsy Lavolette, PhD, Director, Language Resource Center, Gettysburg College. Angelika Kraemer, PhD, Executive Associate Director, Center for Language Teaching Advancement, MSU. Daniel Trego, MA, Foreign Language Technology Specialist, Dept of Romance and Classical Studies, MSU. Welcome to our third Tech
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By Arianne Margolin, PhD Candidate, Université d’Aix-Marseille 1/University of Colorado-Boulder, Adjunct Instructor at the University of Denver. YouSeeU, a Colorado-based educational technology company, is a new learning interface that uses uploaded, YouTube-like video in a secured environment to facilitate
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Daniel Trego, MA, Foreign Language Technology Specialist, Dept of Romance and Classical Studies, MSU. Betsy Lavolette, PhD, Director, Language Resource Center, Gettysburg College. Angelika Kraemer, PhD, Executive Associate Director, Center for Language Teaching Advancement, MSU. Welcome to our second Tech
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Angelika Kraemer, PhD, Executive Associate Director, Center for Language Teaching Advancement, MSU. Daniel Trego, MA, Foreign Language Technology Specialist, Dept of Romance and Classical Studies, MSU. Betsy Lavolette, PhD, Director, Language Resource Center, Gettysburg College. The Rich Internet Applications
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By Stefano Maranzana, Ph.D student in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, Graduate Associate in Teaching Italian at the University of Arizona. PBworks is a wiki, i.e., it is an online workspace that allows users to collaborate in
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By Merica McNeil, Ph.D. Candidate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, Graduate Associate in Teaching French at the University of Arizona. Want to help language learners find and correct their own mistakes when writing in the target language? Did you
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By Nivea Soto-Lightbourn, lecturer in the French and Italian department at the University of Colorado Boulder. PowToon is an online tool that helps create fun, colorful, and short videos and animated presentations using animated cartoons. It is currently available for
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By Adrienne Gonzales, PhD, Foreign Language Pedagogy & Technology Specialist at University of Denver, CO. Flipgrid, produced by the LT Media Lab at the University of Minnesota, is a web-based platform that allows teachers to create “grids” of discussion-style questions.
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By Courtney Fell, Foreign Language Technology Specialist at the Anderson Language & Technology Center, the University of Colorado Boulder. Vocaroo is a free online recording tool with no bells and whistles, unless you count ease-of-use as a perk! Visit http://vocaroo.com/,
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Mural.ly, self described as GoogleDocs for visual people, is a free and user-friendly digital poster creation/team collaboration tool that resembles Prezi. The team behind this project comes from the gaming industry. They built this platform to offer a multimedia collaboration space
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