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A refereed journal for second and foreign language educators. Fully online

Describes how a professor at Boston College used a wiki as the core of his course, suggesting it is a better tool than a textbook.

Has handwriting recognition for look-up, plus user log-ins/lists, conversations, forums and video notes.

Thinking more about the idea of creating a high quality curriculum resource that is open, I have focused in on writing as a subject matter. Why? First and foremost, I love writing and think it has the ability to transform lives. Beyond that, it transfers to all other subject areas and grade levels, and success in writing is correlated to success in many other endeavors. Writing is fun and rewarding. Technology can greatly enhance writing skills for many.

Online journal

Kanji alive is a free, web-based tool to help beginning and intermediate level Japanese language learners to read and write kanji. It is cross-platform and will run in any browser that supports Adobe Flash and Apple Quicktime. Please Note: The current version of Kanji alive available on this site is an initial beta or pilot version. We are making it available now in order to solicit comments and suggestions from our users. It is not a dictionary: only searches for individual kanji, not words. Shows character in font and animation of handwriting, on/kunyomi, audio clips & translations of associated compound words, radicals, stroke count and breakdown, and grade level/reference numbers for kanji lists.

Russian language guide

Interest piece from news station in Minnesota about decrease in second language programs in elementary schools. Features Elaine Tarone from CARLA at University of MN.

A hand-written instruction guide developed by a Spanish teacher at the secondary level for her students.

A bibliography/resource list for books and websites on CALL research.

Welcome to the Minnesota Adult Basic Education (ABE) Fully-Accessible Online Disability Resource Guide. This guide is designed to equip ABE managers, teachers, volunteers and tutors to empower, educate and improve the lives of their students with disabilities. The guide includes knowledgeable contributions by Adult Basic Education and Disability Specialists.

Type in a website address or Japanese text and Rikai will load it with mouseover definitions for Japanese characters.

Babbel combines community activities like chat, messages and boards with self-study content.

"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."

"Quality Matters created a set of forty specific elements, distributed across eight broad standards, by which to evaluate the design of online and hybrid courses. The web-based, fully interactive rubric is complete with annotations that explain the application of the standards and relationship between them."