Word Art

 Someone at last has really done word clouds up right. A great tool for presenting lists of related words.

Lyrics.com

Here is a great resource: you can search song lyrics by word or phrase. A great way to find songs to teach vocabulary or pronunciation.

Lyrics Training

Exploiting the motivational power of pop culture.

Anki

A free downloadable flashcards program that allows you to imbed images, audio, and video.

The Grimace Project

Here's a useful resource for visually explaining basic vocabulary for emotions. It would work well on a smartboard or a projector.

Tagxedo

Forget Wordle--this resource lets you custom design the shape of your word cloud.

101 ways to use it.

Bitstrips

Comics creation. Good for writing practice. Also for illustrating verbs.

Zondle

Create custom video games for any subject.

Instructional video.

Word Dynamo

From Dictionary.com. Looks like an interesting alternative to Quizlet et al. Enter your word list, create a variety of games and quizzes for drill.

Hat tip to John Allan.

Word Dynamo

The Pronunciator

Has apparently nothing to do with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Vocabulary practice, your choice of languages.

http://www.pronunciator.com/

Pho.to

This site offers an unusually good selection of photo effects. Good for materials development--making images interesting.

Festisite

This site has a variety of tools that might be useful for materials creation, especially for vocabulary: a fake money maker, fancy text templates, and so forth.

Memrise

Looks like the best vocabulary memorization program yet.

Vocabulary.com

Designed for native speakers, this might be a bit humbling at first for ESLers. But it promises a systematic way to build your vocabulary.

ELTpics

Hosted, sponsored, or inspired by the British Council, this is a site full of teacher-supplied photos for common ESL purposes.

Word Games

A large compendium of online word-based games.

Clockwords

A very slick and professional word-based shooting game. Great for vocabulary and spelling practice.

Knoword

A challenging vocabulary game, at native-speaker level.

Tagxedo

A fancier version of Wordle, with word cloud shapes, like word Mosaic.

Word Mosaic

This is like Wordle, but lets you create word clouds in specific shapes.