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"Welcome to the STARTALK Resource Website, home to information on teaching and learning Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Persian, Turkish, Swahili and Urdu. The purpose of this site is to share information on implementing programs as well as to share resources on curriculum design, instructional materials, assessment tools, and useful links. Information on our site is particularly targeted toward parents and students, teachers, current and future program directors, an"

"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."

"Since 1995 the purpose of the Language Testing Resources web site has always been to act as a reference guide to language testing related resources on the Internet by providing a history of, and links to, language testing related information, including publications that are freely available on other domains. However, it's purpose has broadened over the years. Now, resources on language testing, such as articles, features, videos and audio, are made freely available for language teachers, language testers, and students of language testing, applied linguistics, and languages."

"Mahara is a fully featured web application to build your electronic portfolio. You can create journals, upload files, embed social media resources from the web and collaborate with other users in groups." Artefacts can be added and then custom views containing different sets of artefacts shared with different audiences. Other features include: File Repository, Blogs, Social Networking, Resumé Builder, Profile Information, Administration Tools, Interface with Moodle, Scalability, Security, Interoperability

A free product (iRubric) that helps make writing assignments less subjective and more understandable to students is saving Santa Ana College Professor John Howe huge amounts of time and helping him grade writing assignments much more consistently.

The conference aims to bring researchers and practitioners across languages, levels and settings to discuss and share research, theory, and best practices and foster meaningful professional dialogue on issues related to Intercultural Competence teaching and learning.

Rates blog entries on 5 categories: critical reading, critical thinking, creative thinking, quality of entries, and community of practice. By Ryan Bretag.

Simple HTML form-based test, with results submitted to program director.

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

Saint Joseph's University. Testing includes a questionnaire and an online test. Test is password protected.

The company that developed the online test used by Stanford.

Describing the placement testing system used at Stanford. They use a password-protected web-baed written exam, plus the SOPI.

Web CT based exam, administered in Language Lab to Johns Hopkins.

Self placement test and answer keys from Brandeis University

At present there are 2 Italian tests you can choose from. Length of test: 35 min. Login: For technical reasons you are required to login if you select one of the tests.

Links to four basic placement exams written by the Italian department at Wellesley. Low-tech: just an HTML form which is submitted.

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.

This profile tool will help you to compare your current instructional practices with a set of indicators for engaged learning and high-performance technology. This is not intended to be a rating of your skill or ability as a teacher, but rather as a tool to help you think through the kinds of activities you use to help your students learn. Use the graph to help clarify your thinking about what types of activities you would like to use more frequently in your classroom. This activity frequently takes about 30 minutes to complete.