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The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web.

Extensive set of Elementary French exercises. Interactive online activities created with Hot Potatoes software. Freely available.

Allows teachers to create interactive drag-and-drop activities to post on their own websites. (Think refrigerator magnet poetry, but applied to language learning.) Developed by a teacher for her own use and shared with others.

Usenet group for interactive fiction

"La Grammaire interactive : la réponse à toutes vos questions sur l'orthographe, la syntaxe, les accords, la ponctuation, la conjugaison..."

"This programme is a set of interactive exercises to help you revise the Kanji you learn in class. The exercises have been carefully designed to follow the structure of your coursebook and you will find ample usage of Hiragana to help recognise the kanji through multiple choice and gap-fill exercises, jumble modules and crosswords. Some contain sound and other display pictures. "

Hello-Hello is a revolutionary interactive online language course with a community of like-minded individuals that help each other in the learning process. And all for free! Our lessons were developed in collaboration with ACTFL.

'Más arriba' is an online interactive workbook of introductory Spanish language exercises, based on the pictorial contextualization of fundamental vocabulary and language points. The exercise material includes full-colour drawings, sound clips, instant feed-back, vocabulary help and a new, significant feature: a voice recorder! 'Más arriba' is freely accessible and is designed to be used with any introductory approach.

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.

"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.

"The Georgia Institute of Technology has stripped, at least for now, more than 10 years of class work from its collaborative-learning Web sites, known as Swikis. Following a student's complaint to the university that his name was listed on the Web site of a public course, Georgia Tech officials decided on Monday to remove all Swikis other than ones from the current semester, said Mark Guzdial, a professor in the School of Interactive Computing, who is a co-creator of the Swikis."

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. "

Space, whether physical or virtual, can have a significant impact on learning. Learning Spaces focuses on how learner expectations influence such spaces, the principles and activities that facilitate learning, and the role of technology from the perspective of those who create learning environments: faculty, learning technologists, librarians, and administrators. Information technology has brought unique capabilities to learning spaces, whether stimulating greater interaction through the use of collaborative tools, videoconferencing with international experts, or opening virtual worlds for exploration. This e-book represents an ongoing exploration as we bring together space, technology, and pedagogy to ensure learner success. Please note: In addition to the e-book's core chapters on learning space design principles (chapters 1?13) , this site also offers case studies illustrating those principles (chapters 15?43), including links to examples of innovative learning spaces. The entire collection is complete and available for printing as individual chapters or the entire book.

Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning. We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world's leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment that in which that content is remarkably easy to use and in which user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.

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.

This is a list of web sites that could be appropriate for use in an introductory phonetics course. Most of the sites on this list include audio, images, or interactive material.

Online collection of websites, scholarly papers and presentations, and other resources for teaching classics. Includes webquests, interactive vocabulary and grammar activities, online dictionaries, etc.

Al-Khazina is an interactive database for the study of Islamic Culture, particularly in the early centuries. We developed it for use in university courses on a wide range of topcs in Islamic civilization,and from introductory through advanced levels.

PICS Videoguidelines: The following guidelines should stimulate your work with video in language teaching. We have chosen a list-like format that should encourage teachers to scan quickly through the pages to find the argument or technique that best fits their immediate needs. We hope it goes without further saying that these guidelines are not meant to be prescriptive, but provocative; they are ideas, suggestions, perspectives, fragments of a larger universe of possibilities. Please feel free to copy and distribute these suggestions. # Part A: Twelve Topics on Video in Language Learning addresses some of the most frequently heard questions about work with video. # Part B: Dimensions of Interactivity provides a rationale and a chart to guide a teacher's approach to any video segment. # Part C: An Activities Inventory offers an extensive checklist of specific activities for working with video. # Part D: Readings makes a few suggestions for further exploration of this topic.

Welcome to IFComp 2008, the competition for short text adventures.