MHC Languages

"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."

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.

Instructor guide to videoconferencing, including preparation, logistics, as well as tips for course planning, material preparation, classroom management, activities, assessment and course evaluation.

Good collection of links to reading resources, such as open content textbooks, folk tales, children's stories, as well as links to tools to support reading, such as addng furigana to kanji.

Recipes written in easy to understand Japanese.

Japanese children's website - good reading material for learners.

"For teachers: You make pages in Japanese of JIS, Shift-JIS or EUC-JP codes without furigana only. Upload the pages to your web server. Put your web URLs on above text box. Then you can get pages with furigana by kids.goo.ne.jp. "

"Middlebury College is pleased to announce The Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace: Investing in the Study of Critical Languages. These 100 fellowships are made possible by a generous gift from Kathryn Davis, to address today's critical need for increased language proficiency in the United States. The Kathryn Davis Fellowships cover 100% of tuition, room, and board for one summer of summer language study from beginner to graduate levels in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian at the Middlebury College Language Schools. The Davis Fellowships are merit-based and intended for exceptionally qualified individuals with demonstrated interest in one or more of the following areas: international, global, or area studies; international politics and economics; peace and security studies; and/or conflict resolution. Individuals in other fields, including working professionals, are encouraged to apply if their field of expertise requires them to study one of the critical languages listed above."

""Julius" is a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder software for speech-related researchers and developers. Based on word N-gram and context-dependent HMM, it can perform almost real-time decoding on most current PCs in 60k word dictation task. Major search techniques are fully incorporated such as tree lexicon, N-gram factoring, cross-word context dependency handling, enveloped beam search, Gaussian pruning, Gaussian selection, etc. Besides search efficiency, it is also modularized carefully to be independent from model structures, and various HMM types are supported such as shared-state triphones and tied-mixture models, with any number of mixtures, states, or phones. Standard formats are adopted to cope with other free modeling toolkit such as HTK, CMU-Cam SLM toolkit, etc. The main platform is Linux and other Unix workstations, and also works on Windows. Most recent version is developed on Linux and Windows (cygwin / mingw), and also has Microsoft SAPI version. Julius is distributed with open license together with source codes. Note: you should prepare a language model and an acoustic model to run a speech recognition with Julius. "

Platform to create multimedia teaching activities (interactive online activities).

" The coolest dictionary known to hombre! Enter website address to make all words on that page clickable. Try our dictionary! More than 8 million translations in 11 languages. Lingro remembers all the words you look up, so you can easily review and study them. "

"Xerte Online Toolkits is an award winning suite of browser-based tools that allow anyone with a web browser to create interactive learning materials quickly and easily. "

Open source toolkit for speech recognition

Shows step-by-step how to set up an online appointments page for your Google Calendar, using "You Can Book Me" (a free service).

On demand and live webinars (free) about various education topics.

This website cites a long list of excellent Latin resources, including dictionaries. There are also links to the news and weather in Latin.

This is an online thesaurus in Greek, with English translations.

Collaborative database of example sentences translated across languages with audio.

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"Lingt Classroom helps teachers enable their students to speak. Create online assignments that make engaging and assessing spoken performance as natural as giving out a worksheet. Make oral exams that take a fraction of the time to administer and assess. Offer targeted feedback to individual responses to maximize student improvement. Incorporate video and images to create media and culture-rich exercises. Archive all your assignments and students' responses to reuse next time and track individual improvement."