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LLT is an international journal (published exclusiveley on the web) with an editorial board of international scholars in the fields of second language acquisition and computer-assisted language learning. LLT publishes articles that report on original research or present an original framework that links second language acquisition theory, previous research, and language learning, teaching, and testing practices that utilize technology. It aims at reaching a broad audience in a timely manner, providing a multimedia format which can more fully illustrate the technologies under discussion, as well as providing hypermedia links to related background information. It is published three times per year and it was ranked in the top 20 Education Journals. Important: Besides the very interesting articles, it also contains a section of general guidelines for both quantitative and qualitative research!

I found this interesting article that look at divers types of technologies apply in multicultural education context.. I hope someone find it useful! I copied here the abstract: The purpose of this paper is to discuss several technology applications that are being used to address current problems or opportunities related to multicultural education. Five technology applications or technology-related projects are discussed, including a teacher education literacy tool, social networking communities, massive multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs), virtual patients, and an International Leadership in Educational Technology (ILET) consortium. Research and practical implications of this paper include the introduction of new technologies for improving multicultural education, research findings on the use of these tools, and potential opportunities or pitfalls as such tools are implemented and evaluated. The paper concludes with a call for new research in the area of technologies for multicultural education.

As I mentioned during the class, I read this article to know media are embodied within activist group, or by their opponant i.e. gouvernments, polices... But what is interesting in this article is to analyze how new media had an impact in the transformation of activist groups, such as for example going from being more local to becoming global. Interesting article when it comes to see how people are in practice interacting with these media.

I agree with Cecile that, this article shows very good results of the interaction of social action with social media tools. The use of social media tools have a greater and faster impact to the society. The information about what is happening around you about a lot of injustice is spreading so quickly. I want to give a very recently example. And International organization was posting via email, fb, you tube concerning a cause in South Africa. They got the signature for this petition in very short time and the reaction of the government very soon and everyone is informed about the future actions to help this cause. It´s amazing when you think how quickly can happen, and imagine if these tools didn´t exist, most probably we will not even know what is happening around us.