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"OLAC, the Open Language Archives Community, is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources by: (i) developing consensus on best current practice for the digital archiving of language resources, and (ii) developing a network of interoperating repositories and services for housing and accessing such resources. "

"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. "

"Caravanserai: A place where cultures meet creates new pathways for Americans to experience the diversity of contemporary Muslim artistic expressions by introducing U.S. audiences to exciting and dynamic artists from the Muslim world. The 2011-2012 season of Caravanserai features the diverse cultures of contemporary Pakistan. Five participating organizations will host two musical residencies featuring traditional and contemporary Pakistani artists and one film residency featuring a young and innovative Pakistani filmmaker. The 2012-2013 Caravanserai season will bring music and film from different Muslim cultures to new communities across the United States."

"Sophie is software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. Sophie's goal is to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of people and institutions and in so doing, redefine the notion of a book or academic paper to include both rich media and mechanisms for reader feedback and conversation. Sophie 2.0 is being rewritten in Java, and the Sophie Reader will be browser-based, offering even easier access to - and sharing of - Sophie projects. Sophie 2.0 will also allow the embedding of Sophie Books as applets on any Web page, and the new version will support Adobe Flash. In addition, Sophie 2.0 will be accompanied by full-scale support for an emerging Sophie user community."

Chinese Savvy is a website community where members can share tips and have access to different tools for Chinese language learning.

"In the increasingly interconnected world of the 21st century, Americans must be able to communicate effectively in English and other world languages. Yet while countries around the world are implementing language programs that position their students to become multilingual world citizens, results of a recent national report by the Center for Applied Linguistics (Rhodes & Pufahl, 2010) reveal that opportunities for U.S. students to learn a foreign language have declined.

The International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments (official publication of Information Resource Management Association) provides readers with comprehensive coverage of developments in learning technologies for an international readership of educators, technologists and trainers. The journal is a primary source for academics, professionals, corporate trainers and policy makers in information and communication technologies. The journal publishes high quality contributions (papers, book reviews) on a range of fields associated with Course Management Systems (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), Social Networking Sites (SNS), Personalized Learning Environments (PLE), and 3D virtual worlds, including for example Second Life (SL).

American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) aims to facilitate communication and cooperation between teachers of Arabic and to promote study, criticism, research and instruction in the field of Arabic language pedagogy, Arabic linguistics and Arabic literature.

UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger is intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world's linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level. The latest edition of the Atlas (2009) lists about 2,500 languages (among which 230 languages extinct since 1950), approaching the generally-accepted estimate of some 3,000 endangered languages worldwide. For each language, the Atlas provides its name, degree of endangerment (see below) and the country or countries where it is spoken. The online edition provides additional information on numbers of speakers, relevant policies and projects, sources, ISO codes and geographic coordinates. This free Internet-based version of the Atlas for the first time permits wide accessibility and allows for interactivity and timely updating of information, based on feedback provided by users.

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

The Center's mission is to serve the entire community of African language educators and learners in the United States by sponsoring a wide range of educational and professional activities designed to improve the accessibility and quality of African language instruction in the United States. The Center encourages a variety of pedagogical approaches to accommodate learner diversity, and advocates the integration of language and culture learning and the acquisition of fluency in these areas. It facilitates dialogue among teachers, learners, and administrators from a wide variety cultural and institutional perspectives, and promotes the profession of African language teaching.

The Peer 2 Peer University is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. The P2PU helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are out there, creates small groups of motivated learners, and supports the design and facilitation of courses. Students and tutors get recognition for their work, and we are building pathways to formal credit as well.

With Academic Commons, we seek to form a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals who will help create a comprehensive web resource focused on liberal arts education.

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.

The Edible Tour is designed for use as a tool for members of the Caltech Community to become aware of the abundance of edible plants on campus and how they can use those plants. The Google Earth link allows users to find the locations of all the edible plants on campus and gives a description of the plant, its edible uses, and its medicinal uses (if any).

YackPack Voice Groups: The best way to connect throughout the day. . Instant, effortless communication . Private groups . Superb sound quality . No ads or spam

The ICT4LT website is a collection of training modules in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for Language Teachers, the outcome of a Socrates project funded in 1999-2000 by the European Commission. Includes online training modules and a "Can-Do" checklist for teachers.

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.

Thinkofit: Web Conferencing Review. An independent guide to software for web collaboration, web conferencing, & online communities. Maintained by David R. Woolley