Skritter is a study system for Chinese and Japanese characters. You draw a character stroke by stroke and it gives feedback and tracks your progress. Character lists from 99 textbooks built into the site.
Fun Input Toy: 最FIT你的Mac&iPhone输入法-全拼/双拼/全双混拼,五笔型/全拼五笔混合,笔画"
A pinyin-based input method for Chinese on a Mac, some users may prefer to the the Mac's built-in ITABC method
"Princeton's 18th Conference on Chinese Lanugage Instruction
2010普林斯顿大学对外汉语教 学研讨会
Saturday, April 24, 2010
For the past seventeen years, the East Asian Studies Program at Princeton University has sponsored an annual conference on Chinese language instruction. We are pleased to announce that we are holding another conference this year, on Saturday, April 24, 2009, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. We invite proposals for presentations concerning research on Chinese language learning and teaching."
"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."
"Sophie is software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. Sophie's goal is to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of people and institutions and in so doing, redefine the notion of a book or academic paper to include both rich media and mechanisms for reader feedback and conversation.
Sophie 2.0 is being rewritten in Java, and the Sophie Reader will be browser-based, offering even easier access to - and sharing of - Sophie projects. Sophie 2.0 will also allow the embedding of Sophie Books as applets on any Web page, and the new version will support Adobe Flash. In addition, Sophie 2.0 will be accompanied by full-scale support for an emerging Sophie user community."
"Since 2004, the annual ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology has sought to shed light on how information technology affects the college experience. We ask students about the technology they own and how they use it in and out of their academic world. We gather information about how skilled students believe they are with technologies; how they perceive technology is affecting their learning experience; and their preferences for IT in courses. The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009 is a longitudinal extension of the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 studies. It is based on quantitative data from a spring 2009 survey of 30,616 freshmen and seniors at 103 four-year institutions and students at 12 two-year institutions; student focus groups that included input from 62 students at 4 institutions; and review of qualitative data from written responses to open-ended questions. In addition to studying student ownership, experience, behaviors, preferences, and skills with respect to information technologies, the 2009 study also includes a special focus on student ownership and use of Internet-capable handheld devices."
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.
"The Index of Learning Styles is an on-line instrument used to assess preferences on four dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global) of a learning style model formulated by Richard M. Felder and Linda K. Silverman. The instrument was developed by Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman of North Carolina State University.
The ILS may be used at no cost for non-commercial purposes by individuals who wish to determine their own learning style profile and by educators who wish to use it for teaching, advising, or research. Consultants and companies who wish to use the ILS in their work may license it from North Carolina State University. (Click below on "Frequently Asked Questions" for details.) "
Foreign Language Teaching Methods focuses on 12 different aspects of language teaching, each taught by a different expert instructor. The site contains video footage from an actual methods course held at the University of Texas at Austin. This flexible resource is designed to be used by foreign language teachers as a component of a classroom methods course or as a stand-alone course for independent learners.
DVDSubber use the time code of the DVD to synchronize the subtitle with the movie. You can pause, fast forward, go to your favorite scene, the subtitle will always stay synchronized with the video. You can either us an already existing subtitles scripts or create one from scratch using the embeded editor. And of course DVDSubber is 100% freeware and contains absolutly no spyware or addware.
Has a diagram of IPA symbols; you can click on a character and any diacritics and it appears in a text box. You can then copy and paste from the text box into a document that you're composing.
TANDEM meansfor people who want to study languages in a different way: the opportunity to meet another person for conversation exchange, either while as taking a language course or independent of one. All of this in a network of language schools practically world-wide which open new paths towards languages, cultures and exchanges.
From Cornell University, excellent site with resources for studnets and faculty on plagiarism, the research process, and other aspects of academic integrity.
The National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP) is North America's only professional organization specifically established for the fostering of self-managed academic programs in the less-commonly taught languages (LCTLs).