Authoring Tools

Quizzes

ThatQuiz.org <http://www.thatquiz.org/> -- for content and ESL; create your own quiz or use one already made; free account needed
Quizlet <http://quizlet.com> -- great interactive, collaborative tool with networking page to create flashcards, practice exercises, and tests that generate random matching, multiple-choice, and true/false questions; groups allow students to collaborate on sets
Hot Potatoes Homepage <http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/> -- The freeware Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.
TexToys <http://www.cict.co.uk/software/textoys/> -- is a site of two authoring programs for text reconstruction,  WebRhubarb and WebSequitur. The programs are used to create web pages (HTML documents) which contain interactive language learning exercises. The exercises are based on the Rhubarb and Sequitur programs originally developed by John and Muriel Higgins
Cloze Passage Builders <http://www.lextutor.ca/clozes.html> -- 3 types: Nth-word and rational deletion cloze, VocabProfile Clozes (frequency based), Experimental English N-word with corresponding VIDEO file
Fun with Texts -- demonstration version of Fun with Texts from Camsoft's website: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/fwt.htm; download a demo at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/fwt.htm#demofwt; offers seven activities based on a single text--Clozewrite (Cloze exercise with the interval of word deletions chosen by the student - from every 2nd to every 9th word. The teacher can also set up the activity as a gap-filling exercise in which specific words, parts of words or whole phrases are removed), Copywrite Easy (Partial text reconstruction, in which the whole text is reduced to small squares and punctuation, leaving the only the first letter of each word), Copywrite Hard (Total text reconstruction - so called "total Cloze" - in which the whole text is reduced to small squares and punctuation), Prediction (An exercise in which the student predicts which word comes next in a text from a set of given choices), Enigma (A decoding exercise in which every letter in the text is replaced by another letter. The student has to decode the text), Scrambler (An exercise in which the letters in every word in the text are scrambled. The student has to unscramble the words.), Textsalad (A line re-ordering exercise. The student has to put the jumbled lines of a text back into the correct order.)
Web Worksheet Wizard: http://wizard.hprtec.org/  -- can be used for making WebQuests; includes Think Tank, Casa Notes, Notable Pics, Assign-A-Day, Learning checklists, QuizStar Quiz maker, RubiStar Rubric maker, Resources in Spanish, TrackStar Track maker, Web Worksheet Wizard, Project Poster (Students), NoteStar note-taking tool
QuizFaber <http://www.lucagalli.net/> -- by Luca Galli; freeware software for Windows to create multimedia quizzes that can be published on the Internet; fully customizable for background images, colors, sounds and font types; can embed into quizzes multimedia objects as images, sounds and videos, since it is compatible with the more widespread Internet formats (JPEG, GIF, MID, MP3, AVI, MPEG), also with Macromedia Flash, Apple QuickTime, Liveupdate Crescendo, RealAudio, RealMedia browser plug-in; produces quizzes in Croatian, Dutch, English, French, Galicien, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
QuizMaker JavaScript Wizard <http://www.edict.com.hk/quizmaker/> -- includes QuizMaker Test <http://www.edict.com.hk/quizMaker/quiz.htm>
 Author <http://www.edict.com.hk/quizMaker/quiz.htm> for simple multiple choice quizzes and several samples 
QuizMaker Pro <http://www.downlinx.com/proghtml/518/51816.htm>  for Mac and Win -- download; a full-featured testing application which generates, administers, scores, and archives multiple choice or matching tests; edit previous tests; have the computer administer the tests to students, notify students of their scores, allow them to review missed questions; teacher can see individual student scores and analyze scores by test or by class; print copies of the test or print the scores for the class; include pictures and/or explanations to accompany each question; analyze test results by class or by test. 
Quizzes <http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html> -- Create your own, or use online resources.  A collection of links.
Perl QuizMaker <http://www.attotron.com/pub/Quizmaker.html.> -- ... a program to write Javascript quizzes in batch mode from "human-readable" data files. This program also creates an automatically cross-referenced hypertext dictionary, and links terms from the feedback messages of the quizzes to their definitions in the dictionary. See molecular biology and dermatology example quiz sets with dictionaries.
JavaScript QuizMaker <http://www.attotron.com/pub/Quizmake.htm> -- easy to use template
Script-O  <http://www.readingmatrix.com/scripto/intro.html>  -- free for teachers; see video (http://www.readingmatrix.com/scripto/tutorials/matching%20test.html) various types of multiple-choice quizzes, matching tests (Word to Word, Sentence to Word, Definition to Word), Cloze and Gap-Fill Exercises, Vary the number of tests items, scores sent to the email address of the student, teacher, or both, inputting an explanation for correct and incorrect answers, setting up a password to protect the quiz from students accessing the online quiz, instant access to test scores saving hours on grading, restricting access to the quiz once it has already been taken; create account at http://www.readingmatrix.com/cgi-bin/instructors/main.cgi
Kelly's HTML Quiz Writer 0.25 <http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/project.html> -- A Macintosh template for creating quizzes (from Randall Davis's page)
Ed Tech Tools <http://www.hawaii.edu/coetech/tech_intensive/tools_teachers.htm> -- Creates free online quizzes
Authoring Utilities <http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/Authoring/authorin.htm> -- This Virtual Language Center offers 4 authoring tools (Teacher's tool box) which include multiple choice, cloze maker, browse the text database, and cross word puzzle formats.
Web-based Freeware/Shareware <http://www.angelfire.com/ma/CasaDax/teacherResources.html> -- by Martin Holmes - for creating exercises using text-reconstruction (Rhubarb, Sequitur), annotating (Markin32), Hot Potatoes web-authoring suite, Multi-Replace (search and replace), JBC (for multiple choice quizzes), JQuiz (interactive quizzes using a quiz generator), Minitools (for interactive language exercises), Clozemaker (for cloze exercises), and The Evil Landlady Action Maze (an interactive maze).
Language Teaching Software from Creative Education <http://www.cict.co.uk/software/teaching.htm> -- find software for creating interactive quiz pages and language learning materials
Quiz Builder <http://www.ccsf.cc.ca.us/Pub/Fac/quiz.html> -- A "quick & dirty" quiz builder|

Interactive Exercises

GoogleDocs <http://docs.google.com>  -- create and share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and forms; Google account needed
Jeopardy -- BYOJeopardy -- build your own Jeopardy game/quiz; Web-based; includes a WYSIWYG editor; media files (".mov and *.wmf) can be included (link contributed by Christina Mager, 10/12/2011); also see downloads of PowerPoint templates for various games at http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/ and http://www.internet4classrooms.com/technology_tutorials/powerpoint_game_templates_technology_tutorials.htm
LessonWriter <www.lessonwriter.com>   -- Create your own free reading lessons from electronic materials, e.g. the e-books on Project Gutenberg; based on materials copied and pasted into Lessonwriter, it generates vocabulary to be pre-taught (teacher selects from generated list), the text itself, vocabulary exercises (e.g. fill-in-the-blank), pronunciation guides for selected vocabulary, exercises for selected grammar points, exercises for selected roots/prefixes/suffixes; demo available at http://www.lessonwriter.com/April_2_demo/April_2_demo.htm
FlashExchange <www.flashcardexchange.com> --  use pre-made flashcards or create your own slide show of flashcards, with definitions on the back side (flip); then create memory exercises/games, print, and/or download (export) them; available for several languages
FlashCardMaker <http://www.americangirl.com/agmg/school_smarts/cgi/flash.cgi?op=create> -- create sets of up to 50 flash cards ; save your set of cards for 30 days on this site.
TrackStar <http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/index.jsp>  -- free, online tool for making exercises from pages on the web.  You can make your own activity, make a quiz or quizzes for your exercises, make a web page from a template to be a part of the web activity, or search the hundreds of previously made "tracks" and modify one to suit your purposes.
Web-based Freeware/Shareware <http://www.angelfire.com/ma/CasaDax/teacherResources.html> -- by Martin Holmes - for creating exercises using text-reconstruction (Rhubarb, Sequitur), annotating (Markin32), Hot Potatoes web-authoring suite, Multi-Replace (search and replace), JBC (for multiple choice quizzes), JQuiz (interactive quizzes using a quiz generator), Minitools (for interactive language exercises), Clozemaker (for cloze exercises), and The Evil Landlady Action Maze (an interactive maze).
Hot Potatoes Homepage <http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/> -- The freeware Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.
Half-Baked Software's JBC <http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked> -- a suite of 5 authoring tools to help educators, teachers, and material-writers put educational material on the web
Quia! <http://www.quia.com> -- Create your own learning activities!
Xercise Engine <http://www.kolumbus.fi/rvilmi/software.htm> -- an exercise authoring tool designed to create Internet based language learning materials

Puzzles

Crossword Compiler <http://www.x-word.com/puzzlemaker/> -- the best in crossword construction software.
Crossword Puzzle Games <http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html> -- create your own crossword puzzle with up to 20 words
Crossword Puzzles <http://www.teach-nology.com/cgi-bin/crossword.cgi> -- create your own crossword puzzle
Puzzlemaker <http://www.puzzlemaker.com/> -- by DiscoverySchool.com.  With Puzzlemaker, you can make 11 different word puzzles, number puzzles, and mazes to introduce or review vocabulary.  Just enter the words or information that you want to use, and the computer will make the puzzle.
Instant Online Crossword Puzzle Maker <http://www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/>
Authoring Utilities <http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/Authoring/authorin.htm> -- This Virtual Language Center offers 4 authoring tools (Teacher's tool box) which include multiple choice, cloze maker, browse the text database, and cross word puzzle formats.
Schoolhouse Technologies <http://www.iearn.org/> -- Word Search Factory is designed to help you quickly and easily create professional looking word search puzzles to provide your students with the extra vocabulary and spelling practice they need in a format that they find very enjoyable
Make your own WordScramble <http://www.theteacherscorner.net/printable-worksheets/make-your-own/word-scramble/word-scramble-form.php>
Make your own Word Searches <http://www.theteacherscorner.net/printable-worksheets/make-your-own/word-search/word-search.php>

Action Mazes

Quandary <http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary/> -- an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case-study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Working through this branching tree is like negotiating a maze, hence the name "Action Maze".  Action mazes can be used for many purposes, including problem-solving, diagnosis, procedural training, and surveys/questionnaires.

Audio / Video

Audacity <http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/> -- [1.5Mb] click to download this free, cross-platform software to record, amplify, fade, edit, copy, paste etc; converts audio files to .mp3 format. Download the Lame client in order to process the conversion.
Voicethread <www.voicethread.com> -- an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.
Voxopop <www.voxopop.com> -- an excellent audio discussion board
RealProducer 10 Basic (free download) <http://www.realnetworks.com/products/producer/index.html> -- a complete resource for building multimedia presentations in RealAudio and RealVideo
HTML Goodies: "So You Want Real Audio, Huh?" <http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/ra.html> -- This site is created by Joe Burns, Ph.D. He explains vividly about varies of specific HTML stuff and how you can put Real Audio on your own WWW page. 
Adding RealVideo Files To Your Web Page <http://www-lib.usc.edu/~khowell/video/realvideo.html> --  The RealVideo Encoder format allows you to deliver much larger files over the Internet, with much quicker start-up time. The ability to use video clips that last longer without making the user wait longer, coupled with an ability to broadcast video "live" over the Internet open up new possibilities for using video in web pages.
 

Surveys

SurveyMonkey <http://surveymonkey.com> -- great survey tool!
Zoomerang <http://www.zoomerang.com> -- Thought you might be interested in this free service that allows you to create online surveys
Generic Form Builder <http://www.ccsf.cc.ca.us/Pub/Fac/survey2.html> --  A "quick & dirty way" to create web-based forms or surveys

Other Authoring Tools

Evernote <www.evernote.com> -- for note-taking and sharing notes online, setting up folders, and more; for both PC and MAC; see video demos
Engrade <www.engrade.com> -- free online grading book for teachers.  List all your classes here; students are given access codes so they can see their grades anytime they want.
Online QR Code Generator <http://onlineqrcodegenerator.com/154/qr-codes-in-the-classroom/> -- Read more about it on the Tourism Tech Corner Web page (Dec. 16, 2010); see some examples and slides of QR Codes in the Classroom
Supercard <http://www.incwell.com/> -- Authoring Tools
RichLink Samples <http://www.sentius.com/RL/english/marketing/index.html> -- RichLink View Plugin
Markin <http://www.cict.co.uk/software/markin/index.htm> -- a program which replaces the traditional teacher's red pen with a complete on-screen marking environment.
Wordstore <http://www.netkonect.net/wida/WDS.exe> -- From WIDA Software.  Click this link to download a demo version of this product.
WordSmith Tools <http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/>  -- Mike Scott's Web Page with information on WordSmith -- lexical analysis tools
Cutting Edge CALL Demos <http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/call/cuttingedge.html> -- demo activities, includes ShockWave (from Randall Davis's page)

Web Pages

See Free Web Site Creators
Builder.com's Web Design page <http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/0-3881.html>
Angelfire <http://angelfire.lycos.com/> by Lycos (templates and FrontPage-enabled pages)
 

Tutorials

JavaScript Tutorial <http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/javascript/?tw=frontdoor> -- Learn the basics including variables, if-then statements, link events, and image swaps in what's been called the best JavaScript tutorial on the Web.
Dreamweaver tutorials <http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/macromedia/dreamweaver/>
Element K <http://www.elementk.com/e-learning/htm/freecourses.asp> -- self-study tutorials
Learn To Type <http://www.learn2type.com/> -- Learn 2 Type is the leading FREE Web site that helps you master the skills of touch-typing.