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Language Matching Game

"The Wherigo Player is a GPS-enabled application that allows you to play interactive cartridges in the real world. Explore new locations, solve puzzles or immerse yourself in a fictional story using only a GPS-enabled device." Can create location-based educational games.

"Simulate real relief efforts in Food Force: A major crisis has developed in the Indian Ocean and the United Nations is sending you on a mission to help feed the millions of people who are going without food! Designed by the United Nations, the premise of the game is to try and stop world hunger by strategic planning (though luck seems to be a bigger contributer to success than skill at times...)" Game is designed for native speakers (not language learners) but could be incorporated at upper levels into unit on food/hunger. Free downloadable software for Windows.

Catalogues interactive fiction games by a variety of attributes, including language. Many games catalogued have links to downloads.

Different games to help French language learning, including vocabulary and grammar.

Italian flashcards online for independent study.  Includes games.

Tools for Arabic study, including spell-checker, autocorrect, corpora, word tagger, morphological analyzers, dictionaries, games, etc.

"Do you want to join our design phase and make some games with us? Point your internets to http://arisgames.org/editor and set up an account. All the editing is done on-line and there is nothing to install on your computer. You can also set up your own server by downloading the ARIS server package from the developer page."

"Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question, "What is digital humanities?," it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry--including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation--to show their relevance for contemporary culture." Open Access PDF version available for free download

Digital language learning for Italian

Korean typing tutorial/game program. Also teaches English typing.

Spanish learning games!

Kazi Sound Recorder is a powerful sound recording and playing software. You can use it to grab any sound, including microphone, VCR, Telephone, TV, Radio, Electronic Organ, Video Tape, CD Player, DVD Player, dialogs from movies, game sounds, Streaming Audio on Internet etc. Captured sounds can be saved in wav, mp3, Raw, G276, ogg and vox files. The program offers direct support for RealPlayer, Winamp, Windows Media Player, Power DVD, Flash, Quick time and many others. It also includes a built in mini player, so you can listen to your recordings immediately after you finished recording. Free demo version can record only 40 seconds.

Machinima = "machine" + "cinema." Machinima is filmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies. In other words, filming what happens in Second Life, including classes held there.

Interactive Fiction for Mac OS X: Spatterlight is a native Cocoa application plays most kinds of interactive fiction game files: AGT, Adrift, AdvSys, Alan, Glulx, Hugo, Level 9, Magnetic Scrolls, TADS (text-only), Quill, and Z-code (except v6).

Stickboy is a fun language learning game for Chinese.

Hebrew typing tutor and games.

What is Conjuguemos? Think of Conjuguemos as an online workbook for your Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Latin language students. The site stores a large amount of practice activities, with more exercises added during the year by our users. Teachers can also create their own activities. If you just want your students to practice on one of the exercises in the Conjuguemos library, or access worksheets/games for those activities, then you can stick to the demo version. If you want to do any of the following, you should create an account: Modify activities from the Conjuguemos library Create your own activities Receive grades from students Assign quizzes

"Make 2D screen based cartoon stories to illustrate conversations and dialogues. Stories can include an unlimited number of frames and are view frame by frame. Each frame can include: Images: Drag and drop library items onto the frame, or import your own digital photos or images saved from the web. Text bubbles: Select from a range text bubbles and information boxes. Drag and drop onto the frame and start typing! Text can be in any language and any script. Voice recordings: Add new voice recordings using the simple built in recording panel. You can also add recordings already saved on your computer. Stories are saved on your computer as HTML page (webpages), and can easily viewed by others on any computer using a web browser such as Internet Explorer. Stories can also be printed. Completed stories can also be loaded back into the Cartoon Story Maker and edited or added to." Windows software