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The French Heritage Language Program was created in 2005 by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and received additional support from the Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation. It is designed to support and enrich the teaching and learning of French language, literature, and culture for students of Francophone background enrolled in New York City public schools. The primary objectives of the program are to help these students develop proficiency in French (reading comprehension, writing, oral expression and other literacy skills), and keep a connection to their respective cultures and identities, while increasing their opportunities for success in their new environment. Through university partnerships, this project also hopes to contribute to scholarly research in the field of heritage language learning. As a pilot program, it is a place for pedagogical and methodological exploration, and a way to build new partnerships. We seek to develop curriculum models that can be replicated and adapted in other cities in the United States, in France as well as in other countries. The French Heritage Language Program works closely with the Internationals Network for Public Schools, which includes nine high schools for new immigrants in New York City and one in Oakland, California, all working at the development of models for global education.

Boston In French: a new online network for lovers of French culture Where can you find shared French-American groups about education, gastronomy, book club picks, conversation exchanges, jobs, classified ads, apartment swaps and more? At Boston In French, the new, free, innovative and collaborative network! Create your profile and exchange, inform, contribute and debate questions and interests related to the French culture and language, and connect with francophones, Francophiles and French individuals in New England.

"In this guide we present a thorough overview of the most important privacy settings which includes previous settings that are still relevant as well as new privacy settings that have been added by Facebook. The majority of the old privacy settings are still relevant, however there's a chance that you may now be sharing much more information with the whole world. Make it through our new Facebook privacy guide and you're guaranteed to be safe."

What Is Faculty Inquiry? Faculty inquiry is a form of professional development by which teachers identify and investigate questions about their students' learning. The inquiry process is ongoing, informed by evidence of student learning, and undertaken in a collaborative setting. Findings from the process come back in the form of new curricula, new assessments, and new pedagogies, which in turn become subjects for further inquiry. When faculty pursue such inquiry in the company of colleagues and students, they create a "teaching commons" on their campus-a set of interconnected forums where conversations about learning take place, where innovations in curriculum and pedagogy get tried out, and where questions and answers about education are exchanged, critiqued and built upon.

New MIT Center Will Explore New Forms of Storytelling (Including Holographic Ones). The Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced yesterday that it had signed a contract with a budding film-and-television studio to create the Center for Future Storytelling.

Every couple of years, a hot new electronic device comes along that promises to transform education, if not life in general, and a few colleges give one to every new student. In the 90s, it was laptops. Three years ago, Duke University tried an iPod giveaway. And last month, Abilene Christian University announced that it would give every new student an iPhone (or an iPod Touch, which can connect to the Internet via a campus or other wireless network).

Aquí encontrarás artículos en español sobre noticias de distinto alcance. El periódico está realizado por estudiantes de español a Amherst College. Incluye noticias acerca la Pioneer Valley. Here you'll find articles in Spanish about news with a unique twist. The newspaper is created by students of Spanish at Amherst College and includes news relating to the Pioneer Valley. They also have a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ElPeriodicoenespanol

News from NHK written in simple Japanese.

"not every iPhone application can "learn" words. Notes seems to be brain-dead in that regard. At the same time, using Safari's Google text entry field worked every time, expanding the database and adding new items to my keyboard dictionary. "

"Caravanserai: A place where cultures meet creates new pathways for Americans to experience the diversity of contemporary Muslim artistic expressions by introducing U.S. audiences to exciting and dynamic artists from the Muslim world. The 2011-2012 season of Caravanserai features the diverse cultures of contemporary Pakistan. Five participating organizations will host two musical residencies featuring traditional and contemporary Pakistani artists and one film residency featuring a young and innovative Pakistani filmmaker. The 2012-2013 Caravanserai season will bring music and film from different Muslim cultures to new communities across the United States."

On Tuesday, after a year of public testing, the Skype team (now owned by eBay) released Skype 4.0 for Windows, which the company calls "the biggest new release in Skype's history." (Gives summary of features in Skype, what's new and some evaluation.)

Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the way that news is produced and distributed, but there are few comprehensive approaches to understanding the nature of these changes. Media Cloud automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data. The system is still in early development, but we invite you to explore our current data and suggest research ideas. This is an open-source project, and we will be releasing all of the code soon.

CANE Discretionary Funds CANE Discretionary Grants are available for: 1. classroom projects for teaching of the Classics at all levels; 2. Research or Creative Writing projects in the Classics which can be used to enhance the teaching of the classics; 3. Materials such as slides, videos, or computer software to further the teaching of the Classics. Applications are open to residents of New England and to students in New England. Applicants need not be members of CANE, though membership is and will be strongly encouraged. Four grant deadlines for Discretionary Grants fall on August 1, November 1. February 1, and May 1, but applications may be submitted at any time.

Latin news broadcast (audio) from YLE Radio 1, a station in Finland. mp3 format

Monthly broadcast of news (audio) in Latin from Radio Bremen in Germany.

Latin news in written format from YLE Radio 1, a station in Finland.

Vocabulary study program for SAT or GRE. VerbaLearn's patent pending system will automatically remove words as you master them so you don't waste time studying like you used to. You can learn your words by listening to customized mp3 files or practicing examples online, track your progress, and even review all your words from your homepage whenever you need a brush-up. Free mp3 Vocabulary Lessons: All you need is iTunes or any other podcast aggregator and VerbaLearn will instantly download your new mp3 Studylists to your computer. From there, the podcast is automatically transfered to your iPod or mp3 player. Try our new motivational program VerbaLearn2Earn that helps students stay motivated by earning cash rewards (donated by a friend or family member) on a pre-paid debit card as they study! It's free, just like VerbaLearn.

The Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency (STAMP), a criterion-referenced, Web-based assessment tool, measures students' language proficiency at levels ranging from Novice-low to Intermediate-mid. STAMP currently measures reading, writing, and speaking proficiencies in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. CASLS strives to continually improve STAMP's test design while adding new languages and new levels. STAMP is available through CASLS' partner company, Avant Assessment.

"Welcome to TACON Online - the new TESOL Arabia International Conference & Exhibition portal! This interactive platform brings the TESOL Arabia conference to the world. It offers you a way to connect with teachers across the campus and around the globe. Use this new site to follow the conference, to participate in forums about hot topics in the field, to view select plenary and featured sessions, to upload and download presentation handouts, and more. "

Transcriber is a tool for assisting the manual annotation of speech signals. It provides a user-friendly graphical user interface for segmenting long duration speech recordings, transcribing them, and labeling speech turns, topic changes and acoustic conditions. It is more specifically designed for the annotation of broadcast news recordings, for creating corpora used in the development of automatic broadcast news transcription systems, but its features might be found useful in other areas of speech research.