MHC Languages

Welcome to The Golden Notebook Project. Start reading the book online → Here are answers to some common questions: What is this? It's an experiment in close-reading in which seven women are reading the book and conducting a conversation in the margins. The project went live on Monday 10 November 2008. Why are you doing it? It's part of a long-term effort to encourage and enable a culture of collaborative learning. What do you hope to learn? We don't yet understand how to model a complex conversation in the web's two-dimensional environment and we're hoping this experiment will help us learn some of what we need to do to make this sort of collaboration as successful as possible.

Effective communication in a multicultural context is an absolute necessity for organizational success and for building healthy communities. Click here to download your copy of our article, "Increasing Relevance, Relationships and Results: Principles and Practices for Effective Multicultural Communication."

Chronicle article about a new guide by the university's Center for Social Media offers free legal advice to clarify such issues-and its authors say that the "fair use" provisions of copyright law are more permissive than many professors may think.

Explore flu trends across the U.S. We've found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in your state up to two weeks faster than traditional systems.

Machinima = "machine" + "cinema." Machinima is filmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies. In other words, filming what happens in Second Life, including classes held there.

The purpose of this wiki is to explore, explain and support non-traditional modes of publishing one's creations. In most cases, existing work and creations by others, using these same technologies, can also be used to support teaching and learning. These technologies fall under the broad definition of the "Read-Write-Web" or Web 2.0. There are hundreds of sites and services where you can create, modify and upload your own content, whatever it may be. (Designed for Connecticut College faculty and students.)

AAUSC works to: promote, improve, and strengthen foreign language and second language instruction in the US; to strengthen development programs for teaching assistants, teaching fellows, associate instructors, or their equivalents; to promote research in second language acquisition and on the preparation and supervision of teaching assistants; and to establish a forum for exchanging ideas, experiences, and materials among those concerned with language program direction.

Describes map-based project aggregating election data.

The Edible Tour is designed for use as a tool for members of the Caltech Community to become aware of the abundance of edible plants on campus and how they can use those plants. The Google Earth link allows users to find the locations of all the edible plants on campus and gives a description of the plant, its edible uses, and its medicinal uses (if any).

At Google.org, we believe maps are a powerful tool for non-profits of all kinds to communicate issues, understand needs, and create more effective implementation plans. Many of you have come to us with compelling ways that maps can help you and your organization increase impact, and we want to help you make your mapping ideas a reality. We're offering a pilot program of Geo Challenge Grants to organizations working in areas related to our core initiatives.

In the Ancient Rome 3D layer, you can: * Fly into Rome as it looked in 320 A.D. * Tour the interior of famous buildings. * Visit the sites in 3D such as the Roman Forum, Colosseum and the Forum of Julius Caesar. * Learn about how the Romans lived.

The FLAD is a free, searchable directory of information on nearly 200 tests in over 90 languages. The FLAD serves as a starting point for teachers and educators to search for foreign language assessments. Available information about assessments includes grade and proficiency levels, languages for which each test is available, skills targeted by a test, information about the test's development and the publisher's or developer's contact information for further inquiries.

Whether you're administering an ESL entry exam, evaluating the language and cultural skills of an offshore customer service representative, managing executive candidate assessments, conducting foreign language proficiency tests to students studying abroad, or teaching languages to students of ANY age, OWL Testing Software can simplify and expedite test authoring, administration, and scoring in ways you never thought possible. What's more, no technical or programming skills are required.

Al-Khazina is an interactive database for the study of Islamic Culture, particularly in the early centuries. We developed it for use in university courses on a wide range of topcs in Islamic civilization,and from introductory through advanced levels.

Links to four basic placement exams written by the Italian department at Wellesley. Low-tech: just an HTML form which is submitted.

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.

Self placement test and answer keys from Brandeis University

Web CT based exam, administered in Language Lab to Johns Hopkins.

Describing the placement testing system used at Stanford. They use a password-protected web-baed written exam, plus the SOPI.