"This platform is aimed at supporting university educators and mobility coordinators to organise and run online intercultural exchanges for their students. In these exchanges, students from universities in different countries collaborate together using online communication tools to carry out collaborative projects and to learn about each other's language and culture. By taking part in such projects, students can develop foreign language skills, intercultural awareness, electronic literacies as well as learning more about their particular subject area.
If you are a teacher working at a university in Europe or elsewhere, this platform will help you to find partner teachers and classes in other countries, to read about tasks, successful projects and evaluation tools and to exchange questions and experiences with an experienced community of practitioners."
Welcome to The Golden Notebook Project.
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Here are answers to some common questions:
What is this?
It's an experiment in close-reading in which seven women are reading the book and conducting a conversation in the margins. The project went live on Monday 10 November 2008.
Why are you doing it?
It's part of a long-term effort to encourage and enable a culture of collaborative learning.
What do you hope to learn?
We don't yet understand how to model a complex conversation in the web's two-dimensional environment and we're hoping this experiment will help us learn some of what we need to do to make this sort of collaboration as successful as possible.
Community, connections, solutions - ePals, the global platform for learning online. ePals is a Global Community of collaborative learners, teachers, and academic experts in 200 countries and territories. ePals provides Connections to students, classes, and school districts worldwide that are safe and secure.
eTwinning is an action that supports online-based projects between at least two schools from at least two different European countries. Schools form a project and use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to carry out their work. As schools communicate and collaborate via the Internet, there are no grants or administrative conditions connected to the scheme and face-to-face meetings are not required.
Scrible transforms the online reading and research experience. Save webpages for later & stop worrying about broken links. Richly annotate web pages right in the browser. Easily organize & find saved research with tags, legends & search. Access research from anywhere because it's saved online in the cloud."
"A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world. Works on all modern browsers, no installation needed."
Think of Stixy as your online bulletin board. Create as many Stixyboards as you like, one for each project. Use Stixy to easily organize and share:
* Your family's schedule
* Projects at work
* An upcoming holiday with your friends
* Your photos from your last bike trip
* Or share a file or two with a friend
Only you set the limitations for how you want to use Stixy.
Arc90, the team behind Readability, is today introducing Readlists, a new website / web app that lets you create your own ebooks from your favorite articles online. The concept is simple: click "create Readlist," paste in whichever URLs you'd like in your book, add a title and custom descriptions, and share.
You can export your book in either the near-universal ePub format, or send it directly to your Kindle. Sharing options are pretty standard - each readlist has a public URL for viewing, and a public edit link which you can send to people you want to collaborate with. There's also an embed tool that lets you add lists to your website or blog."
Boston In French: a new online network for lovers of French culture
Where can you find shared French-American groups about education, gastronomy, book club picks, conversation exchanges, jobs, classified ads, apartment swaps and more? At Boston In French, the new, free, innovative and collaborative network! Create your profile and exchange, inform, contribute and debate questions and interests related to the French culture and language, and connect with francophones, Francophiles and French individuals in New England.
Thinkofit: Web Conferencing Review. An independent guide to software for web collaboration, web conferencing, & online communities. Maintained by David R. Woolley
What is VUVOX & what does it do?
Your Visual Voice: As a workflow and easy to use online service, VUVOX can enable you create personal, collaborative & emotive expressions using your own digital media - including video, photos, music and text. VUVOX reflects your life. Publish your creations to your own website, blog or MySpace page.
Hello-Hello is a revolutionary interactive online language course with a community of like-minded individuals that help each other in the learning process. And all for free! Our lessons were developed in collaboration with ACTFL.
"In 2010, a team of approximately fifteen volunteers from seven different CSU campuses and one from the UC system to evaluate the accessibility of Google Apps. The team also recruited student volunteers and screen reader users to assist with the automated, manual, and screen reader testing.
We discovered a number of accessibility issues during our testing. These issues are outlined in the report as well as "workarounds" that can be used to improve the user experience for persons with disabilities. When campuses choose to use Google Apps, they are required to provide an equally effective service for people with disabilities and it is critical for campuses to ensure that the "workarounds" meet the educational needs of the student and/or faculty. The March 15, 2011 USA TODAY online news article "Complaint: Google programs hard for blind students" illustrates possible legal problems that may result from adopting the Google Apps for Education suite. "
Free online tool for managing Q&A in classes. Students can submit questions; answers are given in wiki format (students can all edit 1 student-contributed answer, instructors can edit instructor-contributed answer).
"PeerWise is an online repository of multiple-choice questions that are created, answered, rated and discussed by students. Typically, at the beginning of a term, a course using PeerWise begins with an empty repository. This grows gradually as the course progresses and students author and contribute relevant questions. All activity remains anonymous to students, however instructors are able to view the identity of question and comment authors and have the ability to delete inappropriate questions."
In the next five years, Web-based computing will likely bring important changes in how students study, how scholars do research, and how college information-technology departments operate.
"WeSpeke (www.wespeke.com) is a free, unique and innovative language website and cultural exchange for teachers and students. WeSpeke is designed as a free-time resource to help improve the efficiency of foreign language acquisition and practice amongst language learners and focuses on supporting the language education curriculum across the conversation continuum including;
Messaging (asynchronous communications)
Chat (synchronous and asynchronous communications)
Audio (real time conversations)
Video + Audio (full peer-to-peer language immersion and cultural exchange)"
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