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What is it? Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. Why use bubbl.us? Because you can: Create colorful mind maps online Share and work with friends Embed your mind map in your blog or website Email and prin

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Live chat Software has helped retailers to organize their online customer service tasks in more professional and efficient way. Using this web-based chat application, the vendors can carry out their online customer service task in a sequence which could produce more productive results.

Chat support software has now become a 'must have' part of every e-commerce website for its remarkable features. This web-based chat application helps s retailer to develop a quick contact with his customers to carry out seamless business communication. Using live chat, the retailers can provide instant, more personalized and real-time assistance to their customers.

The Scribd Platform API gives you unprecedented flexibility for publishing rich documents on the web. The platform is built around our flagship iPaper document viewer, and extends iPaper's functionality with automation, monitization, and a broad pallet of tools for integrating iPaper support into your website and web applications.

In fact, some of the greatest obstacles to world-language education are parents who recall their own miserable experiences. Many Americans were introduced to foreign languages in middle school or high school classes that emphasized conjugation of verbs and other dull grammatical tasks rather than relevant communication skills. "Language teaching in the U.S. has been ineffective," Stewart says. "We start it at the wrong age. Teacher skills are not great. There's a focus on grammar and translation." The result: "Adults who took three years of French don't speak a word," she states.\nBut the trend toward competency and away from conjugation is helping create a new generation of language learners, one that gains real-world skills with many practical applications.

the key here lies in the paragraph I clipped: the focus should be on competency rather than on conjugation.

FlashMeeting is an easy to use online meeting application, it allows a dispersed group of people to meet from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Typically a meeting is pre-booked by a registered user and a url, containing a unique password for the meeting, is returned by the FlashMeeting server. The 'booker' passes this on to the people they wish to participate, who simply click on the link to enter into the meeting at the arranged time.

"With this interactive tool, teens can create printed social networking or magazine/newspaper profiles for themselves, peers or family members whom they have interviewed, or fictional characters from books they have read. Featuring components of popular online social networking applications, this tool engages teens and provides a means for adults to talk about safe, responsible online behavior, such as having an awareness of who could be seeing online profiles and limiting highly personal information."

focus on multimedia, udio, video and presentation applications.

Farkie is a free online application which can do many neat little tricks and can be used to Download Youtube Videos, Download MySpace Playlists, Download Website Objects, and much much more...

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Using real apps for real language learning through taks based activities and practice in the ways that native speakers function daily. Authenticity at its best. . 

Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction is a free gallery of images hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library. The gallery contains nearly 500 drawings of people conversing, scenes in houses and buildings, and objects commonly found in houses. You'll also find drawings scenes in cities, in stores, and in nature. The visuals are all drawn cartoon style without any text or speech bubbles. Applications for Education If you're looking for some visual prompts to use in your language lessons, take a look at the gallery at Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction. You can search the gallery by keyword or simple browse through the collection. 

Courses on IWB and telecollaborative language learning eligible for EU ErasmPlus grants. Deadline for application: March 4