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You can access a webinar here on using wikis/wikispaces for education. Whether you are just beginning your wiki or are looking for more advanced features or ideas, the webinar is designed for you.

How does Doodle work? 1. Create a poll. 2. Forward the link to the poll to the participants. 3. Follow online what the participants vote for.

Has the test as Word document--students download, complete, then send back to school for scoring.

The company that developed the online test used by Stanford.

Self placement test and answer keys from Brandeis University

Al-Khazina is an interactive database for the study of Islamic Culture, particularly in the early centuries. We developed it for use in university courses on a wide range of topcs in Islamic civilization,and from introductory through advanced levels.

PICS Videoguidelines: The following guidelines should stimulate your work with video in language teaching. We have chosen a list-like format that should encourage teachers to scan quickly through the pages to find the argument or technique that best fits their immediate needs. We hope it goes without further saying that these guidelines are not meant to be prescriptive, but provocative; they are ideas, suggestions, perspectives, fragments of a larger universe of possibilities. Please feel free to copy and distribute these suggestions. # Part A: Twelve Topics on Video in Language Learning addresses some of the most frequently heard questions about work with video. # Part B: Dimensions of Interactivity provides a rationale and a chart to guide a teacher's approach to any video segment. # Part C: An Activities Inventory offers an extensive checklist of specific activities for working with video. # Part D: Readings makes a few suggestions for further exploration of this topic.

Hardware and software-based system. Supports Windows and Mac (but not both concurrently). Several versions available, focused on teacher-led or drop-in independent study.

The FLAD is a free, searchable directory of information on nearly 200 tests in over 90 languages. The FLAD serves as a starting point for teachers and educators to search for foreign language assessments. Available information about assessments includes grade and proficiency levels, languages for which each test is available, skills targeted by a test, information about the test's development and the publisher's or developer's contact information for further inquiries.

In the Ancient Rome 3D layer, you can: * Fly into Rome as it looked in 320 A.D. * Tour the interior of famous buildings. * Visit the sites in 3D such as the Roman Forum, Colosseum and the Forum of Julius Caesar. * Learn about how the Romans lived.

At Google.org, we believe maps are a powerful tool for non-profits of all kinds to communicate issues, understand needs, and create more effective implementation plans. Many of you have come to us with compelling ways that maps can help you and your organization increase impact, and we want to help you make your mapping ideas a reality. We're offering a pilot program of Geo Challenge Grants to organizations working in areas related to our core initiatives.

This page offers information about some common corpus tools and links to resources on the web: * Online search in corpora * Online full-text search in books * Text and media archives * Online text/corpus analysis tools * Offline text/corpus analysis tools (concordancers) * Further resources * Corpus linguistics websites

AAUSC works to: promote, improve, and strengthen foreign language and second language instruction in the US; to strengthen development programs for teaching assistants, teaching fellows, associate instructors, or their equivalents; to promote research in second language acquisition and on the preparation and supervision of teaching assistants; and to establish a forum for exchanging ideas, experiences, and materials among those concerned with language program direction.

Organizes kanji info (image, related words, etc.) by study lists, especially for the JLPT.

Website that gives several methods of testing what verison of Java you have. Useful for making sure you have the right plug-ins to run various websites.

A website set up with sections on background info needed to understand spectrograms, explanations about how to read them, and a set of example spectrograms showing phonemes in English.

List of links to resources online for teaching pronunciation, phonetics or phonology. Emphasis on ESOL.

An online tool for submitting writing assignments, checking for plagiarism, coordinating peer review and grading. Allows instructors to set up rubrics and link peer review and grading to these rubrics.