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Transana is software for professional researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data. Transana lets you analyze and manage your data in very sophisticated ways. Transcribe it, identify analytically interesting clips, assign keywords to clips, arrange and rearrange clips, create complex collections of interrelated clips, explore relationships between applied keywords, and share your analysis with colleagues. The result is a new way to focus on your data, and a new way to manage large collections of video and audio files and clips. Transana is inexpensive and Open Source. It was developed at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, where it continues to be maintained and enhanced. It is widely used in the education research community, where video is an integral part of most researchers' methods. Researchers in many other disciplines also find it useful in their work.

OITP announces the release of two new online copyright education tools: the Fair Use Evaluator and the Exceptions for Instructors eTool. These great new resources-developed by Copyright Committee super member Michael Brewer-add to OITP's repertoire of copyright tools, including the Public Domain Slider and the Section 108 Spinner.

The Foreign Language Teaching Forum is an integrated service for FL teachers. Resources include this WWW site, the email LISTSERV Academic Discussion List (FLTEACH@listserv.buffalo.edu), list archives, and the FLNews server at the State University of New York College at Cortland. FLTEACH was founded in February 1994 and runs on a computer at SUNY Buffalo. The moderators, Jean LeLoup & Bob Ponterio, both teach at SUNY Cortland. Our broad topic is foreign language teaching methods for all levels and all languages. Specific areas of discussion include school/college articulation, training of student teachers, classroom activities, curriculum, and syllabus design. Students in teacher training programs, teachers both new and experienced, administrators, and other professionals interested in any aspect of foreign language teaching are invited to participate in our discussions.

"Welcome to the Northeast Regional DH Calendar. This calendar serves as a place for members of the DH community in and around New England to share information about DH events. Visit the Contributing to the Calendar page for information on adding an event. "

Chinese radio stations online. There are many to choose from--including Chinese news (in English and Chinese), and popular music. Stations can be chosen through individual Chinese cities, too.

This website cites a long list of excellent Latin resources, including dictionaries. There are also links to the news and weather in Latin.

News and features from the Japan Times (English-language newspaper)

FREE MONTHLY WEBINARS: Learn about practical teaching ideas, new pedagogy, and materials for use in your classroom through these interactive, online discussions with authors and experts. All you need is a computer with speakers and an Internet connection. "

Arabic news

Chinese State Channel website - News from China

The channel "Canal plus" allows you to watch their news program live online. The counter lets you know when the next one is playing.

White paper from the New Media Consortium, produced in conjunction with the Economist Magazine and in collaboration with Apple, Inc. The paper, entitled "The Future of Higher Education: How Technology will Shape Learning " reports the results of a study of nearly 300 CIOs and technology leaders inside and outside of education.

Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL) is a Web-based video analysis and communication system created by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning and Professor Herbert Ginsburg of Teachers College, Columbia University. VITAL comprises tools for video editing and annotation and for the creation of multimedia reports, embedded in the context of an course syllabus with topics, videos, and activities, all housed within an online community space. Students who use VITAL learn to observe closely, interpret, and develop arguments using cited video content as evidence.

News bites on Twitter (about Japan, in English).

March is the month of La Francophonie. This site lists events in celebration of French language and culture in New England.

"A resource site for all Moodle-related news, tutorials, video, course content information and original resources." Links to various help, how-to documents, videos, etc.

News videos in French, freely available.

"Welcome to Under The Milky Way, a new film universe for foreign and indie explorers in the US and Canada. Our galaxy of films, hand-selected from far and wide, are sure to keep you entertained and amazed, all at the tip of your finger, on you computer, connected TV, tablet and smartphone." - unfortunately, it's not free - it seems to be an index of foreign films, which then links you to distributers where you can purchase viewing rights (like iTunes, etc.).

"Make 2D screen based cartoon stories to illustrate conversations and dialogues. Stories can include an unlimited number of frames and are view frame by frame. Each frame can include: Images: Drag and drop library items onto the frame, or import your own digital photos or images saved from the web. Text bubbles: Select from a range text bubbles and information boxes. Drag and drop onto the frame and start typing! Text can be in any language and any script. Voice recordings: Add new voice recordings using the simple built in recording panel. You can also add recordings already saved on your computer. Stories are saved on your computer as HTML page (webpages), and can easily viewed by others on any computer using a web browser such as Internet Explorer. Stories can also be printed. Completed stories can also be loaded back into the Cartoon Story Maker and edited or added to." Windows software

In 2010 and 2012, we tested and evaluated four major LMS for accessibility/usability: Blackboard, Desired2Learn, Moodel, and SAKAI. The results have been publicized in CSUN (2010) and Midwest Educause (2012) conferences. Since then, we have observed that LMS vendors have continued to strengthen the accessibility and usability of their systems, while also working to incorporate some of the features suggested in our evaluations. In light of this ongoing interest and activity, we have revised and enhanced our evaluation criteria based on common features, streamlined our evaluation process, and rescored our LMS systems. At CSUN 2013, we presented a high-level overview of the results of our new evaluation, along with side-by-side comparisons that support our recommendations for improving learning management systems for users with disabilities.