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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. "

Describes how "citizen journalism" was used for the annual Sakai conference to expand the conference from in-person attendees to an online community.

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.

A high school teacher writes about how his students get interested in using Twitter in the classroom.

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.

ELPENOR is built around a Bilingual Anthology of all periods of Greek literature, including Homer, Lyric poets, Presocratic philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, Tragedy and Comedy, the Byzantine Fathers, Modern Greek poets, the New Testament and the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint). LANGUAGE pages feature free Lessons in Ancient Greek, starting from the Greek alphabet, continuing with Homer and combining grammar and syntax with an attempt to understand the value of the texts and of language itself for our life today. COMPLEMENTARY to these come two more Libraries, on how we see Our Greek self, and on what we can Find on-line on Greek Speaking, History, Places, Texts, including a special section on Constantinople, and galleries with Orthodox Icons of the Christ, Modern Greek Paintings on Christianity and Childhood, Mosaics of Daphni Monastery, Photos from Greece, even a Photo Blog.

Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can also help others recording your pronunciations in your own language.

A library of how-to videos in French. Much of user interface is in English.

Welcome to the Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon, CAPL, the source for authentic images for language learning. As a language teacher and learner, I always seek to connect language, culture, and meaning. This site represents my interest to not only write about language learning, but provide concrete examples. Our world rich in diversity, both linguistic and visual, and often the connection between word and image can be lost. As commercial globalization brings the world together through 'common products', we sometimes forget how our visual perception of the world affects our use of words and the meanings they convey. Is a house really a Haus, is pain really хлеб, and when we see red cabbage, is it really red? These are simple and mundane questions that underscore the fact that visual perception is culturally determined and visual cognition varies from culture to culture. The CAPL project seeks to explore this idea through a collection of authentic photographs arranged by language and context. In the coming year, we will add more photos, more databases, and more textual descriptions. Check back often as we expand our collection. It is our hope that the collection itself can spur research in a variety of areas and that the collection can be used by language teachers and learners throughout the world with its generous Creative Commons license.

"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)."

Google is a very popular search engine, but did you know that it could also serve as a Tutor? Click here to download a 5-page guide, or scroll down to preview a few tips from the guide itself.

Online materials for a phonetics course using Praat.

Setting up Japanese input on Windows XP

Japanese narration with English titles

The Digital Narrative is a Lightning Bug resource introducing story writing through digital media.

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.

This website has been developed for educators seeking to infuse traditional writing instruction with new emerging technologies in such a way as to excite young writers through the composition of personal narrative stories, integration of family photographs, recorded voice narration and multi-media production.

Series of 5 courses on 1220 vocabulary words important for reading newspapers and other media in China. Includes options for studying with traditional, simplified or Pinyin characters.

Jaxtr gives you lots of useful ways to talk on your phone - some are free, some cost just a little. Alternative to Skype

Useful resource with instructions for creating accessible documents in multiple formats and using many of the most common software (e.g., Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Google Docs, Acrobat, iWork, etc.)