Creating information products
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/
Downloadable templates for creating interactive languages games
http://www.bsclotecoe.vic.edu.au/ICT_Res.htm
The website of the Language Centre of Excellence based at Berwick SC. An excellent source of ideas and examples of ICT in the language classroom.
http://www.langwitches.org/
LANGWITCHES.ORG includes standards, ideas, projects, tutorials, and software reviews. The goal is to encourage foreign language and ESL teachers to learn and experiment with technology and at the same time, become comfortable enough to expand their teaching methodology to include different kinds of technologies into their classrooms.
http://www.intel.com/education/tools/
On this page you can find a help guide, which offers step-by-step instructions for hundreds of technical skills for commonly used software applications.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder, ideal for teachers and students who wish to make podcasts. You can use Audacity to:
- Record live audio.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit MP3, and WAV sound files.
- Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
- Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
http://www.kahootz.com/kz/
Kahootz is a powerful set of 3D multimedia tools that allows students and teachers to be creators, designers, inventors and storytellers. Students of all ages can create fantastic three-dimensional environments that allow them to use animation extensively, add sounds to events and objects, link from one scene to another and navigate through their created world. They can also export their Kahootz creations as AVI or QuickTime movies.
http://www.slidestory.com/?page=home
Free software to create picture slideshows with voice narration. Each picture in a slideshow can have an accompanying voice-narrated mp3 audio file, optional tags, and text captions.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-u/training/CR061832701033.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-u/training/CR061832741033.aspx
Online tutorials for learning to use MS FrontPage and Publisher
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
PhotoStory allows you to create slideshows using your digital photos. You can add special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then, personalize them with titles and captions. Small file sizes make it easy to send your photo stories in an e-mail. Watch them on your TV, a computer, or a Windows Mobile-based portable device.
Making interactive language games
http://www.webpagedesign.com.au/Free_Templates/
Free templates that you can download to make your own web pages.
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/
Downloadable templates for creating interactive languages games
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
The Hot Potatoes suite of software includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence.
http://www.gamesinaflash.com/
Games in a Flash features customizable, component-based Flash games for Macromedia Flash . You can license the source code to generate your own unique versions of the Flash games or license the site's Flash games on an "as is" basis.
http://www.linguamate.com/
Create your own interactive activities for your teacher webpage or school website. Linguamate, Linguascope's sister website, allows you to create attractive games and activities easily.
http://www.quia.com/servlets/quia.web.QuiaWebManager
Quia provides a wide variety of tools, including:
- Templates for creating 16 different types of online activities, including flash cards, word search, battleship, challenge board, and cloze exercises. Quia activities are designed with different learning styles in mind to suit the needs of all your students.
- Complete online testing tools that allow you to create quizzes, grade them with computer assistance, and receive detailed reports on student performance.
Access to online activities and quizzes in more than 150 categories. All of the shared activities have been created by teachers from around the world.
http://www.taskmagic.com.au/
TaskMagic is a suite of authoring tools for creating interactive lesson content.
http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers and students. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.

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Created on: Friday, February 8th, 2008 | Page last updated: Monday, 16th January 2012
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