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"Have you used all of the features of the nciku Japanese dictionary? Apart from looking up English or Japanese words to see their translation, kana pronunciation and romaji, you can also draw kanji characters with your mouse to look up words you don't know how to type, take memorization tests and view flashcards based on prebuilt word lists or your own custom vocabulary lists, and highlight words in dictionary definitions to see a quick translation. "

Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, and create information using digital technology. As a Cornell student, activities including writing papers, creating multimedia presentations, and posting information about yourself or others online are all a part of your day-to-day life, and all of these activities require varying degrees of digital literacy. Is simply knowing how to do these things enough? No-there's more to it than that.

When you cannot get iMovie to recognize where a source clip is, these instructions show how to manually edit the iMovie project file with the correct path.

A very general (from the beginning) orientation to Moodle and how to set up a few basic items in a sample course site.

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA is showing how the "City of Lights" is portrayed through transitions from gas lamps to electric lighting--and how Parisianskept up, just as modern in technology as in society.

Shows step-by-step how to set up an online appointments page for your Google Calendar, using "You Can Book Me" (a free service).

How-to or manual site for using the phonetic analysis software Praat.

"When typing in Japanese, your iPhone uses names and readings from your address book as a kind of second dictionary for its text auto-complete. This was a very smart way to program the iPhone since the most common reason to use non-standard kanji/words to begin with is because they're used that way in a proper name (which, if it's someone/someplace/somewhere you know, would probably be in your address book anyway)."

"Helping students of Arabic understand, self-assess, and improve their oral proficiency What is this guide? This guide is designed to help you understand and improve your Arabic oral proficiency by learning about: What oral proficiency is and how it relates to your language learning goals A set of guidelines that can be used to rate your speaking ability The kind of outcomes you can reasonably expect after different amounts of Arabic study"

This page contains some examples of how the BNC (XML edition) can be used in combination with non-corpus based activities and exercises to study the English language. The exercises are intended as illustrations of what can be done with access to the corpus. Refer to the sample search results provided or perform your own searches.

Stanford Humanities Fellow Edith Sheffer had an idea of how she could personalize history for her students. This led to an innovative use of the wiki. The following are highlights from a conversation in January 2009 about her course "Germany and the World Wars, 1870-1990.″. The idea was to have a writing assignment that would function like weekly response papers but be slightly more interesting to the students. Each student would create his or her own character that was born in 1900 and be in complete control of their persona. Beyond the initial introductory sentence that gave their parent's occupation, and birthplace and gender, they could make life choices.

The National Institute for Literacy develops tools and guidance to strengthen the teaching and learning of reading in adult education and literacy programs. An online diagnostic reading assessment, based on the ARCS Study, shows instructors how to identify students' reading strengths and weaknesses. Instructors can use this knowledge to target their instruction more effectively.

Tutorial on how to fix the navigation order of buttons in a DVD menu that is caused when you use free positioning of buttons in iDVD.

"This article will address those questions by examining what corpus linguistics is, how it can be applied to teaching English, and some of the issues involved. Resources are also included which will assist anyone who is interested in pursuing this line of study further."

"This guide explains how to use VoiceOver, the advanced screen-reading technology integrated into the Mac OS X operating system. This guide includes lists of VoiceOver commands for using VoiceOver with Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard."

SACODEYL presents an innovative ICT-based solution for the compilation and pedagogical, language learning-oriented exploitation of linguistic teen talk oral corpora. SACODEYL is an integration initiative that takes into account areas as: 1. multilingual corpus compilation and innovation support, 2. pedagogical adaptation of existing ICT tools for the integration of corpora and corpus-based methods of Data Driven Learning (DDL) into mainstream language teaching, and 3. know-how building which will contribute to the future drafting of specifications that can take both DDL and the use of oral corpora in language education a step forward. SACODEYL sees itself as a pedagogical mediator in the language learning process of young European, exploiting ICT resources to deliver learning experiences based on data driven, constructivist approaches to language acquisition. SACODEYL will demand young learners of languages across Europe to personally explore, and engage in learning tasks of different nature.

SACODEYL is a web based system for the assisted compilation and open distribution of European teen talk in the context of language education. The project includes the collection and distribution of English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Romanian, and Spanish teen talk. SACODEYL sees itself as a pedagogical mediator in the language learning process of young Europeans, exploiting web multimedia resources to deliver learning experiences based on data driven, constructivist approaches to language acquisition.

"Your Field Guide to the Internet. Online video education and training. 24-hour access to hundreds of tutorials. Take quizzes to earn certifications. Use it for free! "

both the notice and takedown regime (DMCA section 512) and the anticircumvention provisions that make DVD-ripping illegal (DMCA section 1201) are part of the same law--the DMCA--though these two sections represent discrete components of the complex law. On Monday, we discussed section 512 in depth, so today, let's take a close look at how section 1201 applies to innovators like Lee, as well as current attempts to reform the law.

A free product (iRubric) that helps make writing assignments less subjective and more understandable to students is saving Santa Ana College Professor John Howe huge amounts of time and helping him grade writing assignments much more consistently.

In Windows, the Polytonic Greek support is a combination of a special Greek keyboard layout (Greek Polytonic) and a few fonts containing all the additional characters (diacritical and punctuation marks). This downloadable whitepaper outlines the steps you need to take to use Polytonic Greek from fonts to necessary keyboard layout.