I divided them up into 3 categories; presentation, record audio (important for language learners), and fun tools.
1. Presentation: These tools are great for instructors, students, and business people as well.
- Prezi: This tool is amazing, impressive, eye-catching, and easy!
- Glogster: Students can easily create virtual poster boards that incorporate text, links, images, and video. No more lugging a huge poster board to school on project day.
- Make Beliefs Comix: This is a great way for students to create comic strips or for teachers to use for fun news notifications. Great for showcasing dialogues in a language classroom.
2. Audio: Recording audio is a very important aspect to language learning.
- Audacity: This tool is pretty simple to use and has a lot of customization options for those interested in delving deeper. Only downfall is that it requires a download. It is free and open-source though.
- Vocaroo: It does not get any simpler than this tool for voice recording. There is nothing on the homepage except for a button to push to begin recording.
3. Fun: This category consists of web 2.0 tools that are fun to use for various purposes.
- Storybird: Using this tool you can create stunning children's books. Great for many purposes and the graphics are beautiful. It's easy to use but you may spend more time than necessary just playing around.
- Spotify: I love this tool for searching for free music which can be a great learning tool in the Spanish classroom. I've never searched for a song that they don't have.
Here's a great article by Edudemic called 10 Free Web 2.0 Tools And How To Easily Use Them In Your Classroom
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