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Quandary is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case-study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Working through this branching tree is like negotiating a maze, hence the name "Action Maze". Action mazes can be used for many purposes, including problem-solving, diagnosis, procedural training, and surveys/questionnaires. Quandary is only available for Windows at present.

Pachyderm is an easy-to-use multimedia authoring tool. Designed for people with little multimedia experience, Pachyderm is accessed through a web browser and is as easy to use as filling out a web form. Authors upload their own media (images, audio clips, and short video segments) and place them into pre-designed templates, which can play video and audio, link to other templates, zoom in on images, and more. Once the templates have been completed and linked together, the presentation is published and can then be downloaded and placed on the author's website or on a CD or DVD ROM. Authors may also leave their presentations on the Pachyderm server and link directly to them there. The result is an attractive, interactive Flash-based multimedia presentation.

Describes using the "pecha kucha" format for presentations and benefits to learning.

"ANTWERP CALL 2010: Motivation and beyond 18-20 August 2010 The editor, associate editors and editorial board of the CALL Journal extend a cordial invitation to attend Antwerp CALL 2010, the XIVth International CALL Research Conference. Keynote speakers Antonie Alm (University of Otago, New Zealand), Maarten Vansteenkiste (Ghent University, Belgium) and Ema Ushioda (Warwick University, United Kingdom) will provide an overview of literature on motivation, an introduction to Self-Determination Theory and a presentation of the L2 SELF model. You are hereby invited to present your current CALL activities, highlighting aspects such as: * the impact of ICT on motivation; * designing for motivation; * the role of ICT in the analysis of motivation; * the relationship between motivation and proficiency level; * learning styles; * anxiety; * technophobia/technophilia; * self-models; * teacher motivation."

"Hosted by: Dr. Abigail Grant Scheg (Elizabeth State University) Date: November 29, 2012 Text messaging, in and out of the classroom, is often viewed as a negative communicative mode which results in poor grammar and poor idea representation, let alone student procrastination from more important projects. However, as Web 2.0 technologies increase in number and popularity, these tools are changing the face of education, business, and communication at large. This session will discuss the pedagogical possibilities using text messaging and ways to incorporate texting into the classroom or as part of a class in a way that will make the instructor feel comfortable. Starting with the idea that our students are experts in the technology of text messaging, this session will allow the instructor to utilize students' skills in a positive light rather than dismiss them as unimportant. In this presentation, author Dr. Abigail Grant Scheg will discuss her IGI Global chapter, Textperts: Utilizing Students' Skills in the Teaching of Writing. Her research explores both the theoretical and practical implementations of text messaging into the composition of the classroom with careful consideration of the positive and negative impacts."

In 2010 and 2012, we tested and evaluated four major LMS for accessibility/usability: Blackboard, Desired2Learn, Moodel, and SAKAI. The results have been publicized in CSUN (2010) and Midwest Educause (2012) conferences. Since then, we have observed that LMS vendors have continued to strengthen the accessibility and usability of their systems, while also working to incorporate some of the features suggested in our evaluations. In light of this ongoing interest and activity, we have revised and enhanced our evaluation criteria based on common features, streamlined our evaluation process, and rescored our LMS systems. At CSUN 2013, we presented a high-level overview of the results of our new evaluation, along with side-by-side comparisons that support our recommendations for improving learning management systems for users with disabilities.

"As you begin the process of creating your own e-portfolio, you may be wondering exactly what it is you are working towards. What is an e-portfolio? Why should you create one? How do you do so? These are natural and important questions to be asking, and the purpose of this wiki is to help you start thinking about the answers. As you will observe, the site is organized around these three major questions, with each page providing a brief introduction to the ideas presented as well as links to external resources that address the question. The fourth question, "Where can I read more?" is essentially a bibliography incorporating the resources mentioned throughout the site plus some additional ones. While exploring the site, you are encouraged to think about e-portfolios in a few different ways: as something which you will create to document your learning, as an opportunity for reflection and growth, and as an educational tool both for yourselves and your future students. Enjoy! "

Online Video Creation by Undergraduates: Consequences for Media Literacy, a project briefing session presented at CNI's fall 2011 membership meeting by Anu Vedantham of the University of Pennsylvania, and Renee Hobbs of Temple University." Discusses why it's important to engage undergraduates in video creation projects to develop their media literacy. YouTube: http://youtu.be/HNwSh62owu4

"NOTE: This DRAFT statement was first presented and reviewed by the ACTFL Assembly of Delegates in November, 2008. It has since been modified taking into account the comments of Delegates and the ACTFL Board. It is still in draft form and awaits further comments from ACTFL members before final revisions and approval by the ACTFL Board of Directors It is important for you to have input into the statement and we invite all ACTFL members to review this draft and to enter your comments in the box below the statement. Once you have made your comments, click the "submit" button and your form will be transmitted to ACTFL."

"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."

" * Sophie Author allows users to create complex networked multimedia documents without specialized training. * Sophie Reader allows readers to read Sophie books in a browser without downloading a separate application. * Comment frames allow easily constructed spaces for discussion inside of books. * Browser frames allow embedding fully functional web browsers in book pages. * Sophie can import, embed, and export PDF files. * Easy to use embedded books: Sophie books can open inside other Sophie books. * Frame-based timelines present an easy way to create animations. * Sophie Server allows uploading, managing, and downloading books on a server. * Sophie Server allows simultaneous collaborative creation of books."

This site hosts oral history vignettes, 30 second to 3 minutes long with accompanying transcriptions. Currently there are 8. A few have simple exercises. We will be adding new anecdotes every week from the 500 oral histories I have collected over the past 15 years from Spanish America and Spain. Some are almost entirely in the present tense, some in past, some mixed. There is a particularly cute one about the term of endearment "gordito." Suggestions, collaboration welcome.

"Welcome to the ItalNet publication of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) textual database. The production database contains 1849 vernacular texts (21.2 million words, 479,000 unique forms) the majority of which are dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. The beta-test installation of the database under PhiloLogic3 contains 1960 documents (see below). The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers. The OVI database was created to aid in the compilation of an historical dictionary of the Italian language, the Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini, (portions of which are now available online). The fully-searchable ItalNet implementation of the OVI database presented here has been produced in order to enable scholars around the world to benefit from this rich textual resource. "

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Friday, April 3: Barbara Sawhill (Oberlin College) Saturday, April 4: Gus Leonard (CSU Monterey Bay) In addition to the keynote speeches, the conference will consist of various workshops, joint presentations and panels centered around the use of technology and language learning. This collaborative conference, co-located with SWALLT, is designed for the expert and novice alike! April 3-5, 2009

In writing my paper for the upcoming GloCALL Conference, I thought it would be useful to provide a bibliography of the many sources I came across while conducting a literature review. The irony is that the list below doesn't include blog posts themselves, as I have treated those as primary sources rather than secondary. I have also excluded more "general" articles on blogging in trying to retain a focus on second language learning (although a couple of works, such as danah boyd's article, slipped through because they present excellent arguments and provide a theoretical basis for BALL analysis).

The Mighty Kanji Poster is 23" wide and 37" tall and has all 2042 Joyo Kanji in one spot. The Kanji are presented in the same order as found in James W. Heisig's seminal book Remembering the Kanji,

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

The main objective of EISTA 2009 is to provide a forum for the presentation of both: solutions and problems of the applications of ICT in education and training.

Since 1946 the Middle East Institute has been an important conduit of information between Middle Eastern nations and American policymakers, organizations and the public. We strive to increase knowledge of the Middle East among our own citizens and to promote understanding between the peoples of the Middle East and America. Today we play a vital and unique role in expanding the dialogue beyond Washington, DC, and actively with organizations in the Middle East. Our Department of Programs present programs with top regional experts and officials from the US and foreign governments. The George Camp Keiser Library has the largest English-language collection on the Middle East outside of the Library of Congress. We publish quarterly one of the most prestigious journals on the Middle East, The Middle East Journal. MEI's Department of Languages and Regional Studies offers courses in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish and seminars highlighting the history, literature and culture of the Middle East.

At present there are 2 Italian tests you can choose from. Length of test: 35 min. Login: For technical reasons you are required to login if you select one of the tests.