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Online programs for recording, uploading, mixing, and interacting. Free! Includes: Audio Dropboxes, Broadcasts, Conversations, Mashups, Scribbles, Revisions, SMILE, ViewPoint, and Worksheets.

"MIMEA is a series of interactive multimedia modules for language learning, practice, and assessment. The modules are based on video clips that show native speakers and nonnative speakers interacting in natural, unscripted situations. Interactive exercises reinforce language and cultural topics that spring from the scenarios. Teachers can use MIMEA modules as part of a language course to demonstrate language use, provide contextual language practice, or as an assessment tool."

"Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education. "

From LLTI, recording of both video streams can be played successfully using the VLC Media Player. Other players may only be able to play one stream (local or remote) and others may not play the video at all.

Records both audio and video streams. Free download but fee to register (not clear what difference is).

Authors: Catherine E. Snow, M. Susan Burns, and Peg Griffin, Editors; Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, National Research Council Authoring Organizations Description: With literacy problems plaguing as many as four in ten American children, this important book draws upon the expertise of psychologists, neurobiologists, and educators to establish clear recommendations on several prominent education controversies. This book explores how to prevent reading ...

"Online education is booming, but not at elite universities-at least not when it comes to courses for credit. Leaders at the University of California want to break that mold. This fall they hope to put $5-million to $6-million into a pilot project that could clear the way for the system to offer online undergraduate degrees and push distance learning further into the mainstream. The vision is UC's most ambitious-and controversial-effort to reshape itself after cuts in public financial support have left the esteemed system in crisis."

Explains the standards for web pages from Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, in clear chart format that shows what a webpage needs to include in order to pass, and examples of what a webpage that fails would include.