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Search the Web directly for concordances of words and phrases in 34 different languages. This new release (last update: 24 May 2010) adds support for selecting which documents to include in the zipfile, preselection based on document metrics, combining all textfiles into a single document for importing into kfNgram or a concordancer, and conversion from UTF-8 into more widely-supported encodings.

"Xaira is a text searching software originally developed at OUCS for use with the British National Corpus. This new version has been entirely re-written as a general purpose XML search engine, which will operate on any corpus of well-formed XML documents. It is however best used with TEI-conformant documents. Xaira has full Unicode support. This means you can use it to search and display text in any language, provided you have a suitable Unicode font installed on your system. At the heart of Xaira is the Xaira Object Model. This defines a range of objects and methods for representing and searching large amounts of linguistic data. The Xaira Server program implements this model. The Xaira Indexer program creates platform-independent indexes from collections of XML documents for use by the Server. Both these Xaira components can be deployed on any platform. Client programs can access a Xaira server using a close-coupled API such as that used by the Windows client (which is written in C++), or via XMLRPC or SOAP. We provide a fully-featured client for Windows, and a PHP code library which makes it easy to develop applications for the web which can talk to a Xaira server. All versions of Xaira are now distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public Licence."

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.)

Learn the Hebrew keyboard! Then, use our built-in text editor to type your own mixed-language text and publish to PDF. With this free service, you can create a PDF document with English and Hebrew text, including Hebrew vowels (nikud), and save the PDF document on your own computer. And with built-in virtual keyboards for Russian, Greek, French, Spanish, Yiddish, and more, you don't need to install any fonts or software to use our multilingual editor.

Air Scanner. Turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a wireless document camera! Air Projector. Leave the VGA dongle at home! Project PDFs and photos directly over WiFi. Air Sketch. Turn your iPad into a wireless whiteboard! Annotate PDF documents and images live. Stickyboard. Imagine a giant whiteboard with a never-ending stack of sticky notes.

List of links to how-to & help documents for using foreign language keyboards and activating different languages on both Mac and PC computers.

E-MELD is a 5-year project with a dual objective: 1) To aid in the preservation of endangered languages data and documentation. 2) To aid in the development of the infrastructure necessary for effective collaboration among electronic archives.

"Follow the steps to have your document converted into an alternative, accessible format. The result will be delivered to you via e-mail. Conversion is currently limited to individuals with a Stanford University e-mail address. Select your file and upload it to the server (max 32 mb). Supported file types are .doc, .docx, .pdf, .ppt, .pptx, .txt, .xml, .html, .htm, .rtf, .epub, .mobi, .tiff, .tif, .gif, .jpg, .bmp, .pcx, .dcx, .j2k, .jp2, .jpx, .djv and .asc"

"As you begin the process of creating your own e-portfolio, you may be wondering exactly what it is you are working towards. What is an e-portfolio? Why should you create one? How do you do so? These are natural and important questions to be asking, and the purpose of this wiki is to help you start thinking about the answers. As you will observe, the site is organized around these three major questions, with each page providing a brief introduction to the ideas presented as well as links to external resources that address the question. The fourth question, "Where can I read more?" is essentially a bibliography incorporating the resources mentioned throughout the site plus some additional ones. While exploring the site, you are encouraged to think about e-portfolios in a few different ways: as something which you will create to document your learning, as an opportunity for reflection and growth, and as an educational tool both for yourselves and your future students. Enjoy! "

Has a diagram of IPA symbols; you can click on a character and any diacritics and it appears in a text box. You can then copy and paste from the text box into a document that you're composing.

"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."

" * 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 ItalNet publication of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) textual database. The production database contains 1849 vernacular texts (21.2 million words, 479,000 unique forms) the majority of which are dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. The beta-test installation of the database under PhiloLogic3 contains 1960 documents (see below). The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers. The OVI database was created to aid in the compilation of an historical dictionary of the Italian language, the Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini, (portions of which are now available online). The fully-searchable ItalNet implementation of the OVI database presented here has been produced in order to enable scholars around the world to benefit from this rich textual resource. "

This page is designed to provide practical resources to support your assessment planning process. The focus is on program and institutional assessment of student learning. The websites and documents listed here are only a sample of the references that are available and should be viewed as an introduction to the world of assessment resources available.

Allows you to upload a document, add annotations, and download as another pdf

This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances-especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. It is a general right that applies even in situations where the law provides no specific authorization for the use in question-as it does for certain narrowly defined classroom activities. This guide identifies five principles that represent the media literacy education community's current consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials, wherever and however it occurs: in K-12 education, in higher education, in nonprofit organizations that offer programs for children and youth, and in adult education.

The Teaching Foreign Languages K-12 video library and professional development guide bring to life the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century. Illustrating effective instruction and assessment strategies, the series documents 27 teachers and their students in K-12 classrooms around the country as they study eight languages across a range of competency levels.

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

Web services: collaborative documents, web meetings, create/share/store .pdf

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.