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1. Glogster EDU: Digital poster-making for student projects.
Teachers can try it for free, or purchase a license ($29.95 for 50 student licenses, $99 for 200 student licenses). The teacher creates the account, and then gives the code to students to sign up under the teacher. When you sign up for a free trial, they sometimes offer a discount to purchase a license. Students can submit glogsters as assignments to you on edmodo. or send them to you by e-mail. You can also see their glogsters when you go to your account. Glogster EDU website

Student samples: 2nd Year Japanese Student Project (Japanese Culture) 1st year Japanese Student Project (Japanese Culture)

2. Voki: FREE site that lets you create speaking avatars.
Students sign up for free individual accounts, or you can pay to set up a classroom account ($29.95/year). You create your avatar, and have it speak. You can type in roomaji and have the avatar speak Japanese by selecting a male or female Japanese speaker, or you can record your own voice. You can embed vokis on your edmodo page, or students can put them on their wiki portfolio pages. Voki website

Samples: My sample voki: I typed text in Japanese and chose Japanese male voice My sample: I recorded my voice

3. Audio dropboxes 2.1: FREE audio dropbox account from CLEAR at MSU.
Teachers sign up for a free account, and can put a dropbox in any web page. Students' recordings are deposited into your dropbox automatically. You can embed an audio dropbox on your edmodo page, and students can submit their audio recordings into it. Audio dropbox website OTHER FREE CLEAR ONLINE RESOURCES FOR WL TEACHERS

4. Stripgenerator.com: FREE site to create comic strips.
Students sign up for free individual accounts. They create comic strips, writing in Japanese or roomaji, and can e-mail them to you, or can embed them on a webpage. Stripgenerator.com website

Sample: 3rd Year Japanese Student Sample

5. Photopeach.com: FREE site to create digital photo projects with music.
Students sign up for their own free accounts, and can write in Japanese or roomaji. They can e-mail the projects to you or embed them on a webpage. Photopeach website

Samples: 3rd Year Japanese Student Sample 3rd Year Japanese Student Sample (location words)

6. Befunky.com: FREE website to add photo effects to your pictures.
Students sign up for their own free accounts. They then upload their pictures, choose special effects, and create a new look, to add to webpages or to use as an avatar. Befunky.com website



7. Quia.com: Low cost site where you can create webpages, set up student accounts, make quizzes and tests, create learning games, and more.
Quizlet is free, but Quia has more. Try it for free. A subscription for an individual teacher is $49/year. Quia website

8. Kerpoof.com: FREE site to create drawings, movies, or tell a story.
I just signed up and have not used it yet. Kerpoof.com teacher sign up