It defines itself as a tool that simplifies online research, giving you answers rather than links to other websites as a response to your question. allows you to use it for free, without setting up an account, or you can choose the paying Pro option which gives you access to many more language models on the market including GPT-4 (OpenAI), Claude 2.1 (Anthropic), Google Gemini.

It is an academic writing tool that says it has the approval of 125 top institutions including Harvard, Stanford and Cambridge. The machine gives you feedback and tips for improvement in real time, as you write, or you can insert an existing text and it will suggest corrections, paraphrases or reductions. It can generate outlines or abstracts. Only exists in English. 

Will generate a series of clear and nicely-presented slides for a lesson on a topic of your choice at a specific level. You can edit and refine the slides, add videos or images and download or share what it produces. It aligns content with recognized competency frameworks. 

This generative AI app can be used to help you create course, unit or individual lesson plans/outlines. It also suggests related assessments, and provides the marking criteria to go with it. There are three teaching approaches to choose from, and lesson objectives produced in line with Bloom’s taxonomy. For Italian, it does not give content, only structure, but it does recommend relevant online resources. It is free for a certain amount of content, subscription based after that. 

A slide presentation creator with various templates and smart questions about purpose, level, audience etc.  to guide the machine towards pitching the presentation well. Lots of examples of already-generated slides on their blog. This machine takes a pdf and converts it to slides. However, there is no free trial at the moment, you can only use what’s already available.

This came highly recommended but it now seems to want an upfront payment before you can test it. Enables you to set lesson topic, level and some indications as to what you want to include.

Maintained by the Loescher Editore, which is a Italian publishing house based in Turin traditionally known for its textbooks for primary and secondary education, the Italian per Stranieri portal, provides extensive educational resources that focus on Vocabulary, Grammar, Phonetic acquisition. The resource are also organized by language level and kind of learning activity.

This new OER is a culmination of practices that developed as a collaboration between co-authors Borbala Gaspar and Chantelle Warner (at the University of Arizona) and students who took part in a year-long poetry club.  

This poetry club evolved from the authors’ shared desire to create a space adjacent to the classrooms where students could explore the aesthetic and affective endeavor of language learning, rooted in the human capacity for exploring alternative ways of making sense of themselves, the world, and their experiences within it.

There are only limited materials available for free and then you have to subscribe, but the templates and question types (Open, MC, Polls, word clouds) and specific examples e.g. icebreakers might be useful. They run frequent online training sessions to learn best use.  

An easy way of brainstorming a question and getting a word cloud as a collective answer in real time. The instructor sets up the question on Answergarden in advance, then posts the link to the class at the relevant moment, each student can access the link and respond, and the answers are published collectively and visible to all.

Also allows for the creation of quiz and trivia team games and digital games.

Free online design software that has some AI powered features. It is extremely useful to edit / create visuals; to make quick posters and presentations using their range of templates and graphic elements (photos/cartoons etc.) and to embellish the pages of online courses. Canva recently joined with Pexels to offer more photos). 

It has 30 hyperlinked cards where you can type questions, and another 30 hyperlinked cards to type each answer. You can use it in order, or jump from one question to another using the navigation numbers below each question. Click on “flip” to reveal the backside. Click “flip” again to go back to the front side or just click on another navigation number to jump to another question.

Create your own or use one of over 500 existing decks. Can be exported. 

Create and share your own flashcards.

These are collective noticeboards, for collecting written contributions and photos from an infinite number of learners in the same place. There are colored backgrounds to choose from, and different ways of structuring the contributions, but basically it’s a board that can be used in real time or embedded in online courses. It offers the possibility to like a post, or to comment on it. The best thing about Padlet, in our opinion, is that learners do not have to sign up or anything, and their contributions remain anonymous. The disadvantage is that, without a subscription, your free version allows only 3 boards at a time so you have to cancel and start again.

 As the name suggests, it’s a collaborative digital board, with basic editing tools (fonts, colors, shapes, etc.)

Very similar to Padlet for both registration, use and interface. Works in the same way as Padlet but is FREE for the moment without limitations to the number of boards. It can be used to upload: audio clips from students; longer PDFS by students, so useful for essay writing / exchange for B2, rather than writing very long posts; students can work in groups on a shared doc. It has a multilingual dashboard. The downside is that it seems impossible to anonymize student data.

It gives you a few credits for free to experiment with creating video lessons using a range of avatars and voices. You can insert text in different languages.

A free version is available. This app enables you to make a short, light course comprising avatar videos, text, and assessment activities quickly and effectively, which is very useful for mobile learning or reinforcement tasks.

Allows foreign language learners to practice the language they are studying by meeting up with natives living in their areas and/or video conferencing.

Created by Dickinson College, Mixxer connects online native speakers of many languages for conversational exchenges.

This Open Access dictionary collects all main aspects of educational linguistics ("linguistica educativa"), or the science that focuses on the teaching of first, second, foreign, classical, and ethnic languages. The dictionary is available in wiki mode, with internal hyper links to connect different topics. 

A site where students and teachers create and share flashcard-based quizzes for the most part to help reinforce language learning in various topic areas. Here is the link to some existing exercises in Italian.

Create, share and reuse interactive exercises and games. Includes voice recognition software in Italian.

Create or use one of the ready-made lessons. There isn’t much available in Italian but the tool is easy to use to create M/C questions, Open questions and even audio answers.

When you sign in, you see a table of 18 different types of activities, including hangman, crosswords, anagrams and complete the sentence. Just click and insert your own content. A useful tutorial on how to use this tool can be found here.