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Barbara Lindsey

Site Hopes Automatic Arabic-English Translation Translates into Peace | Epicenter | Wir... - 0 views

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cross-cultural community translation online

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  • A new site hopes the seemingly simple idea of eliminating the language barrier, letting you write in English and be read in Arabic — and vice versa — will cultivate citizen diplomacy between the Middle East and the West. It aims to reduce tensions at the grassroots level between two cultures that increasingly co-exist but seem a world apart.
  • People who don’t share a common language can have an online discussion in near real time. The name, appropriately, means “gathering place” or “town hall” in Arabic.
  • Think of it as a social network filled with people you don’t know, but want to understand.
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  • The site is effectively bilingual, thanks to machine translations, and volunteer editors spruce up the translations afterward. Machine translation is quite good, Weyman says, on fairly standard text such as news stories, but still has difficulties handling comments, which tend to use more conversational language. The site also open-sources all its translation data to help the state of the art of translation to move forward.
  • “let someone in Nebraska see an event through the eyes of someone in Nablus.”
  • For instance, Meedan partnered with the United States Institute of Peace, which hosted an online webcast with U.S. Ambassador Christoper Hill last Wednesday. The webcast allowed Iraqis and others from the Middle East to ask questions in Arabic, have them translated immediately and get answers back in just seconds.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 23 Feb 10
     
    A new site hopes the seemingly simple idea of eliminating the language barrier, letting you write in English and be read in Arabic - and vice versa - will cultivate citizen diplomacy between the Middle East and the West. It aims to reduce tensions at the grassroots level between two cultures that increasingly co-exist but seem a world apart.
Barbara Lindsey

sigilt - Favorite Web 2.0 Tools - 0 views

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web2.0 tools educators

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 09 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Barbara Lindsey on 09 Mar 10
     
    Description of web 2.0 tools selected by educators.
Barbara Lindsey

Wordle: using word clouds in a lesson - 0 views

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word_clouds wordle picardo

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 12 Feb 10 - Cached
  • The lesson went very well and I found Wordle to be an useful and interesting tool to use to engage my pupils in text analysis, looking at language and vocabulary in detail. My pupils liked the way Wordle automatically picked up the gist of any given text so much that they asked me about how to use Wordle to help them revise in other subjects. 
Barbara Lindsey

Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » "An anthropological introduction to Y... - 0 views

mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg

wesch youtube librarycongress timeline annotated video

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 17 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Barbara Lindsey on 17 Feb 10
     
    An annotated timeline of Prof. Wesch's video
Barbara Lindsey

PiratePad - 0 views

piratepad.net

text editing realtime

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 23 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Barbara Lindsey on 23 Feb 10
     
    Real-time collaborative text editor.
Celeste Arrieta

:: PIMPAMPUM :: Bubblr! .:. - 1 views

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comics web2.0 bubblr photos flickr

shared by Celeste Arrieta on 12 Mar 10 - Cached
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      useful for learning dialogues, places, cultures, vocab, places in the city, shops, story telling
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    A little trip to Buenos Aires for you to enjoy
  • Celeste Arrieta on 15 Mar 10
     
    A little trip to Buenos Aires for you to enjoy
Celeste Arrieta

25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals 2009 - 0 views

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learning education tools professional development elearning web2.0Tools educacion

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    25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals 2009 Presentation
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