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Another ambitious virtual library project is Europeana, an ongoing effort to digitize the archive, library, museum, and audiovisual collections of all the European Union's 27 nations through a single portal by 2010. "It won't matter which European country holds an item or whether it's in a library, museum, or archive," says Europeana spokesperson Jonathan Purday. "It will be possible to find it and bring it into context with other related materials."

Jerome Burg's tips on using Google Earth to create literature trips

Site full of original children literature available in different languages. You can have students read picture books in many languages

Asia for Educators (AFE) is designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college levels.

full texts of Roman authors

In this episode, we highlight three great resources for teaching primary MFL. Judy Hawker, NACELL regional support co-ordinator and primary MFL teacher, recommends: Uki books - fun French-learning books Sing and Learn German - CD and book combination Animales y Contraries - colourful Spanish-learning book

"The Authentic Materials Guide, created by Donna Brinton and Andrea Wong, provides an introduction to Authentic Materials, annotated bibliographies on teaching methodology, and links to online resources for creating lessons. The Guide offers sample lesson plans, which you are welcome to adapt for your own use."

This directory offers a variety of resources and teaching ideas for addressing global education issues across the school curriculum. The directory was developed by teachers from all grade levels and represents only a fraction of materials available for teaching from a global perspective. The book is divided into sections for elementary, middle, and secondary schools, along with a section on the International Resource Center Collection at the World Affairs Council, Springfield, MA. Suggestions are offered for lesson planning, the use of country case studies, inclusion of literature and other arts in the curriculum, and the use of maps. Each section contains a bibliography related to the specific grade levels. (EH)

From the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. These are spoken folk tales reinforced with animated pictures. Seems that only the Arabic and Chinese tales are in the TL and English with options to show subtitles in either. Wish stories from other countries were not just in English.

A fabulous guided exploration of what Google Lit Trips are and how to use them with your students.