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"NOTE: This DRAFT statement was first presented and reviewed by the ACTFL Assembly of Delegates in November, 2008. It has since been modified taking into account the comments of Delegates and the ACTFL Board. It is still in draft form and awaits further comments from ACTFL members before final revisions and approval by the ACTFL Board of Directors It is important for you to have input into the statement and we invite all ACTFL members to review this draft and to enter your comments in the box below the statement. Once you have made your comments, click the "submit" button and your form will be transmitted to ACTFL."

A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.\nUsers can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded on web sites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs as archival movies.\nWith VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install.

Upload big videos: Share your videos with our community, your friends, family, and the world. Up to 500 Mb per video! Tag the moment: Place tags that appear right in the timeline of your videos, to describe people, places, and things. Comment the moment: See something funny? Comment right when it happens using traditional text or the ultra-cool "respond with video" feature. Use your Webcam: Don't have any fancy-schmancy video camera? That's okay. Use your webcam with our record feature.

"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."

"The VideoBoard module can be used to upload video to a shared video board within a Moodle course. Students and instructors can view and assess uploaded video and add comments. The VideoBoard App is a app that can be used to record video on an iPhone or iPad which is then sent directly to a Moodle course. The video is shared within a Moodle course via the VideoBoard module. The VideoBoard app is available at the Apple App Store. Requirements: Moodle 1.9 or Moodle 2.X and Flash Media Server/player OR Java runtime engine"

Site that allows students to post their thesis statements and give feedback to each other by rating thesis statements as "hot" or "not," and making comments.

" * Sophie Author allows users to create complex networked multimedia documents without specialized training. * Sophie Reader allows readers to read Sophie books in a browser without downloading a separate application. * Comment frames allow easily constructed spaces for discussion inside of books. * Browser frames allow embedding fully functional web browsers in book pages. * Sophie can import, embed, and export PDF files. * Easy to use embedded books: Sophie books can open inside other Sophie books. * Frame-based timelines present an easy way to create animations. * Sophie Server allows uploading, managing, and downloading books on a server. * Sophie Server allows simultaneous collaborative creation of books."

Welcome to the CITE -- a blog on Course materials, Innovation, and Technology in Education. CITE is a pun with multiple meanings - referring to cite as in citation, something people reference; site as in location, website, or place people go to; and sight as in foresight or looking ahead to what is coming. Comments, discussion, feedback and ideas are welcome.

With their ideas as a guide, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative is embarking on a collaborative project to create a blueprint for the "classroom" of the future -- realizing, of course, that it may not be a classroom at all. With wikis as our workplace, we're asking the EDUCAUSE community to share their ideas and expertise to help us, as a community, a vision of what the ideal learning environment might look like. Comments will be used to construct simulated course environments, starting with easy-to-implement solutions for rethinking the traditional lecture format and scaling to "blue sky" initiatives that include global collaboration and opportunities to "learn by doing." We hope you'll also take this opportunity to share the unique and innovative ways that your campus is already transforming learning in the classroom, on campus, and in virtual worlds.

Kanji alive is a free, web-based tool to help beginning and intermediate level Japanese language learners to read and write kanji. It is cross-platform and will run in any browser that supports Adobe Flash and Apple Quicktime. Please Note: The current version of Kanji alive available on this site is an initial beta or pilot version. We are making it available now in order to solicit comments and suggestions from our users. It is not a dictionary: only searches for individual kanji, not words. Shows character in font and animation of handwriting, on/kunyomi, audio clips & translations of associated compound words, radicals, stroke count and breakdown, and grade level/reference numbers for kanji lists.

Welcome to Tonguetide, the language-learning social network. Like Facebook and Twitter, Tonguetide is a place to connect with people, except that here you'll be meeting people who want to learn languages too. Chat: You can practise your language skills with real native speakers by messenger (like Facebook Chat), video chat (like Skype), or our internal mailing system (email). Use our Match feature to find a native speaker fluent in the language you want to improve (ideally one who wants to learn your mother tongue), read their information to find someone you fancy talking to and invite them to chat by adding them as a friend, sending them a private message, commenting on their profile or "sticking your tongue out" (like "poking" on Facebook). Match: Our system will automatically alert you of new users who fit the profile you specified when signing up and will tell you the Match percentage. Our Members Map even allows you to pinpoint users' locations on a Google Map - so you could meet them face-to-face to chat the old fashioned way! Tonguetide classes: Take classes with one of our language teachers trained in the Tonguetide method. Our online classes offer speaking practise in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German combined with our self-study courses - perfect for those with a busy schedule. All you need is an internet connection, a microphone and a set of speakers or headphones. Take a Tonguetide self-study course: Our self-study language courses are packed with fun exercises, videos of native speakers and audio tracks for listening practice. An annual subscription for any of our courses is just 14,95€, or 500 Tonguetide points. Teach online: Tonguetide is packed with useful resources for teachers. Our Virtual Classroom feature is an online teaching tool which makes the classroom whiteboard a thing of the past, allowing you to teach as if you were in the same room!"

VideoAnt is an online video annotation tool created by the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. It allows users to make time-line based textual comments in synchronization with online video. It's an ideal tool for providing feedback or facilitating peer reviews.

There are free, interactive online Cantonese lessons, Mandarin lessons, and Chinese character lessons. There are also comments on Chinese culture, and links to other Chinese resources.

MultiTree is a searchable database of hypotheses on language relationships. * compare language trees and access bibliographical information on them * see a graphical representation of every scholarly hypothesis on language relationships * view information on every language * share comments on hypotheses and add new hypotheses (as a registered user) * access an interactive map of the language or family of your choice through LLMap

linguos.com is a window to the non-English web. Users with can search the non-English web with just an English QWERTY keyboard. This is NOT a translation service, but a transliteration and transcription based search engine. In most languages, enter your queries as they would sound in your target language. linguos.com is powered by Linguaseek Language Technologies. linguaseek.com is a portal and a platform that enables multi-lingual search, communication and content generation. A single interface allows transliteration to over 120 languages (virtually all digitally available languages.) Global portals and services can benefit from the service by integrating with or licensing linguaseek.com webservices, allowing users to search for multi-lingual content, communicate (IM/email/etc) and generate content (blogs, comments, web pages, etc), all without requiring custom keyboards, software or transliteration schemes. linguaseek's transliteration is based on ISO standards where available and optimized for user input. Users familiar with English and a second (or more) language(s) will benefit the most from this service.

The Text Machine is an application that allows instructors to correct, mark up, comment on, and grade electronic writing assignments. The TM generates rich, detailed, error-specific feedback on essays, compositions, term papers and other written work, all with the click of a mouse. At the same time, your software manages crucial data on students' writing abilities, making the Text Machine an indispensable tool for the assessment of learning objectives.

"Learn Japanese with our free Japanese lessons in podcast format. We use examples from anime and everyday conversation to teach you Japanese that is useful for everyday life. Hitomi-sensei is from Tokyo and will teach you to speak with the most common Japanese accent. If you are watching an anime now and want to know more about a word or phrase you have heard, post a comment or send us an email."

Welcome to The Golden Notebook Project. Start reading the book online → Here are answers to some common questions: What is this? It's an experiment in close-reading in which seven women are reading the book and conducting a conversation in the margins. The project went live on Monday 10 November 2008. Why are you doing it? It's part of a long-term effort to encourage and enable a culture of collaborative learning. What do you hope to learn? We don't yet understand how to model a complex conversation in the web's two-dimensional environment and we're hoping this experiment will help us learn some of what we need to do to make this sort of collaboration as successful as possible.

I have seen the future, and it works. Sort of. This particular version of things to come is the future of the book. And the future of reading, too, as we move from consuming books on paper to contributing to them on screens. Maybe. Perhaps. As I suggest below, it might even be a future for 'watching' films. Whatever. In any case, The Golden Notebook Project, which went live at the start of this week, is an entirely engrossing cultural experiment.