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"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. "

NMC Virtual Worlds is an NMC program designed to help educational and other learning-focused organizations explore the potential of virtual spaces in a manner that builds on community knowledge, is cost-effective, and ensures high quality. Since its launch in January 2007, NMC Virtual Worlds has been known for its attention to detail and to client needs. NMC provides a palette of premium custom services for education and training that includes developing facilities to hold company meetings and events, holding trainings and seminars, creating simulations for educators to recreate historical, scientific, and literary settings, organizing and managing conferences and mixed media events, and growing successful learning communities.

"For many educators and students, online video is no longer just an accessory it has become a primary medium for teaching and learning. This change has brought legal and ethical pressures to add closed captions to make video accessible for the deaf and hard of hearing. Join Georgia Tech and Indiana University, Purdue University - Fort Wayne to discuss their lecture capture and closed captioning solutions. Sponsored by: Tegrity/3Play Media"

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

"With ThingLink's easy-to-use editor, teachers can create immersive and engaging experiences by adding tags to any image in a few minutes: Create authentic, valuable, and rich interactive stories around historical events using media (video, sound, photos, written words, etc.) found online. Annotate graphs and timelines. Record an instructional message to students inside an image. Embed interactive images into student blogs. Enable students to curate content inside an image to demonstrate understanding of a topic."

We are using open source teleconferencing technology to conduct 1-on-1 and group classes via video, voice, flash technology for displaying Chinese characters and shared whiteboard where the teacher & student can observe each other's Chinese writing capabilities. In addition, we offer video clips of Chinese culture events also. As student learn the language, and they will be able to learn the Chinese culture as well.

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The National Capital Language Resource Center is a nonprofit organization funded by the US Department of Education to promote foreign language learning nationally. This video podcast gives highlights of our summer institutes for foreign language teachers and other local events that can be useful in the language classroom.

Edmodo is a private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other. Teachers sign up for accounts, and then create groups. Each group has a unique code which is distributed by the teacher to the class. Students then sign up (no email address required) and join the group using the code.

VOICE comprises naturally occurring, non-scripted face-to-face interactions in English as a lingua franca (ELF). The recordings made for VOICE are keyboarded by trained transcribers and stored as a computerized corpus. Currently VOICE comprises 1 million words of spoken ELF interactions, equalling approximately 120 hours of transcribed speech. The speakers recorded in VOICE are experienced ELF speakers from a wide range of first language backgrounds. So far, VOICE includes approximately 1250 ELF speakers with approximately 50 different first languages (disregarding varieties of the respective languages). In the initial phase, VOICE focuses mainly, though not exclusively, on European ELF speakers. The ELF interactions recorded cover a range of different speech events in terms of domain (professional, educational, leisure), function (exchanging information, enacting social relationships), and participant roles and relationships (acquainted vs. unacquainted, symmetrical vs. asymmetrical).

The Museum of Fine Arts is hosting five recent French children's films with the following titles on the following days: > Ernest and Celestine Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:30 pm - 3:50 pm > Kirikou and the Men and the Women Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:15 pm - 4:45 pm Friday, April 19, 2013 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm > The Painting Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm > A Monster in Paris Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm > Zarafa Sunday, April 21, 2013 10:30 am - 12:00 pm For plot summaries and more information on the aforementioned films listed above, click here: http://www.mfa.org/programs/series/boston-international-children%E2%80%99s-film-festival. Tickets go on sale March 29th and are $10.00 for adults and children ages 3 & up.

Come to a celebration of Francophonie from all over the world complete with a Cajun band concert, a Quebecois concert, and a buffet of crepes, Swiss raclette, and Malien specialities. There is also a French book sale with second-hand books and teaching materials.

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA is showing how the "City of Lights" is portrayed through transitions from gas lamps to electric lighting--and how Parisianskept up, just as modern in technology as in society.

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. "

Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS): Free, online lectures covering a wide-range of topics related to education and technology, presented by thought leaders and innovators from around the world, delivered LIVE to your desktop.