These repositories contain free online educational resources that can be intergrated into your courses.
Open Textbook Library: faculty reviewed textbooks compiled by the University of Minnesota
OER Commons: A wide range of materials with user ratings and reviews.
MERLOT: Curated materials that are all peer-reviewed.
BC Campus: The University of British Columbia's collection of free educaitonal resources, including guides for teaching remotely.
Language Panda: An online database of activities for the langauge classroom. You can also submit activities that worked well for you.
Hypothes.is: This is a collaborative reading tool that allows students and instructors to highlight and post comments on shared readings online. As students read, they mark up the text and add comments while also readong and commenting on their peers' contributions. Instructions can read and participate in the online conversation before class, giving them insight on how to guide the in-class discussion. This tool has been used in various departments at Colgate and was used in Cory Duclos's Span 202 class last semester. See this intro to Hypothes.is and their many instructor resources here. (Perusal and eomma are other similar tool to Hypothes.is)
GroupMe: Here is a Colgate student's view on how important GroupMe is to their daiy communication.
Extempore: This paid software allows instructors to create assignments for students to record themselves speaking. Instructors can set limits on how long students have to review the speaking prompts (to ensure spontaneously produced speach) and how many times the students can re-record. This short FLTMAG review explains some of the basic functionality. And the company has some demo videos on their site here.
Voicethread: A platform that allows students and instructors to verbally present material and comment on the work of others. John Crespi has used VoiceThread in his Chinese classes for some years. See the introductory viceo below or check out this collection of scholarly articles about using VoiceThread for teaching languages. (Flipgrid and Padlet are other similar tools to Voicethread).
News in Slow: A subscription based program with daily podcasts about what is going on in the news spoken slowly and clearly. Available for Spanish, French, Italian, and German.
The Mixxer: On this site students can create a profile and find a language exchange partner around the world. Although this will provide the students will a great, free resource for finding a native speaker, there is no real way to hold students accountable for these lessons.
iTalki and Boomalang: These subscription based sites pair studnets with a paid tutor in the language. Although instructors can easily track that students are completing the lessons, there is a cost for the lessons.