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"In 1996, five Comparative Literature majors, with financial support from Comparative Literature, founded an annual undergraduate journal of poetry and visual art dedicated to the publishing of student writing in languages other than English, with facing page translation. The mOthertongue journal is now in its 13th cycle, and enjoys support from the Arts Council and the Alumni Association as well as Comparative Literature, and is still edited by Comparative Literature majors, who celebrate each publication in a public reading and reception attended by audiences of 50 or more"

Use gClassFolders Template to create a paperless classroom by automatically create shared folders for students. This script was created to accompany the Google Class Model that I recommend for teachers to help organize the classroom: Google Classroom Model Each Classroom set up a Class Edit, Class View, and Dropbox folder.  Make sure to include both the name of the student and the class so that multiple classrooms are not using the same naming convention.

Collection of materials and links for Russian teachers.

"Visual storytelling for everyone: A platform for writers, readers, and artists of all ages. Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. We curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories." Has tools for teachers to set up student accounts, manage privacy and give feedback.

Site that allows students to post their thesis statements and give feedback to each other by rating thesis statements as "hot" or "not," and making comments.

From Cornell University, excellent site with resources for studnets and faculty on plagiarism, the research process, and other aspects of academic integrity.

A introduction to pinyin with detailed explanations about pronunciation. Includes a downloadable pinyin chart.

Collaboratively creating sharable information literacy tutorials. A set of video-based tutorials on info literacy topics, such as evaluating Internet sources, developing a topic, etc., shared with a creative commons license.

" * 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."

"Shareflow lets you share ideas, files and more with a specific group - without the hassles and confusion of long group email threads." Similar to the now defunct Google Wave

Wiki used by a Japanese instructor from the University of Wisconsin for several Japanese courses at varying levels. All students required to participate in a certain number of assignments contributing to wiki. Includes detailed rubric showing grading criteria

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

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

"Have you used all of the features of the nciku Japanese dictionary? Apart from looking up English or Japanese words to see their translation, kana pronunciation and romaji, you can also draw kanji characters with your mouse to look up words you don't know how to type, take memorization tests and view flashcards based on prebuilt word lists or your own custom vocabulary lists, and highlight words in dictionary definitions to see a quick translation. "

iPhone/iPod app that connects with computer and allows user to draw characters on phone for input on computer.