Vista Higher Learning Supersites seamlessly integrate text and technology by providing an array of online resources - activities, audio, video and resources - for each program. The integration of text and technology supports and enhances student learning every step of the way: section-by-section and lesson-by-lesson. Instructors will discover an array of online teaching resources, plus a gradebook for managing courses, viewing rosters, setting assignments, and posting announcements. Click on the cover image below to access the Supersite demo for that program.

Phonetics course for French from Middebury.

Phonetics course for French from Middlebury

LanguageGuide.org offers free sound integrated resources for learning languages. Includes picture dictionary, pronunciation guide, grammar resources, and reading texts with audio.

Phonetics course for French

Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can also help others recording your pronunciations in your own language.

WordReference is opening up and offering you the ability to add a miniature version of WordReference for your website. It has much of the functionality of WordReference including most of our most popular dictionaries.

Simply upload PDF files to PDF Hammer via your web browser, perform your edits, and then save the files back to your computer. The free PDF editor lets you: * Combine PDFs. * Rearrange, reorder and delete the pages from PDFs. * Protect the contents of PDF files with password-based security. * Update PDF metadata.

SynPhony is an open-source project that will assist in teaching literacy skills for alphabetic writing systems. It is a database system designed to systematically present the patterns of a language and track a user's progress as they acquire reading skills. There are four main components to SynPhony: linguistic, pedagogic, user knowledge base, and reports. Although English is the first language being targeted, the structure and methods used will be suitable for many other languages as well.

The Breeze, the newsletter for The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles, will drift in with refreshing reports and facts of Japanese language education in North America. Publication of The Breeze is in part intended to help in developing strong regional and national networks in the teaching of Japanese.

Edmodo is a private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other. Teachers sign up for accounts, and then create groups. Each group has a unique code which is distributed by the teacher to the class. Students then sign up (no email address required) and join the group using the code.

The Linguistic Politeness Research Group was established in 1998 in order to bring together researchers who were working on the analysis of linguistic politeness and impoliteness. We felt that there had been a significant change in the way that politeness was analysed and that these theoretical changes made politeness a subject which was of wider interest to linguists as a whole, and had implications for research in many areas of linguistics. Working in a post-Brown and Levinson model of politeness, we are all attempting to develop new ways of theorising and analysing politeness and impoliteness.

Exercises developed by the CLA Language Center GlossMaker: Allows the creation of on-line texts with annotations or glosses. EvalMaker: Creates an exercise where students can evaluate their own answers by comparing them to the teacher's. Also allows incorporation of sound or image files. MatchMaker: Creates a classic two-column matching exercise. Good provision for feedback. Also allows incorporation of sound or image files.

VideoAnt is an online video annotation tool created by the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. It allows users to make time-line based textual comments in synchronization with online video. It's an ideal tool for providing feedback or facilitating peer reviews.

A free interactive guide to help faculty determine the appropriate copyright guidelines they must follow to use different types of copyright protected media in their courses

Intercultultural Competency Across the Curriculum Infusing Culture and Language Campus Wide October 15-16, 2009 Hosted by Baldwin-Wallace College Berea, Ohio

f4audio helps you transcribe audio data such as interviews or dictation. It is the digital answer to well-known cassette transcription equipment such as the Stenorette. The main functions include the variable playback speed, the rewind interval and operation via the f4 key or a footswitch from any computer programme (e.g. Word).

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.