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VoxOx challenges Skype, Google Voice, and Gizmo Project with low prices ($2.45/mo unlimited calling) and bucketloads of features including a free phone number, call screening, "follow me", 20 party conferencing, video calling, plus things you haven't seen elsewhere like multi-protocol IM and social networking, built-in dropbox-style file sharing, and fax support.

Alternative to google voice that allows up to 30 min. of call time.

"Introduction In recent years, the world has witnessed a growing wave of local initiatives in support of public schools. Teachers, cultural associations and civil society have been playing an active part in grassroots experiments aimed at helping schools in the creative elaboration of new educational methods, also exploiting information technologies. Here answers are coming from those directly faced with educational issues, in contrast with the more common top-down reforms, where experts' committees draw up didactic experimentation plans to be put forward to willing teachers. Experiments like that are often very effective but, unfortunately, they rarely get known beyond the immediate sphere of their promoters. Moreover, they tend to be short-lived because promoters don't have the strength to sustain them and a suitable supporting network is lacking. They are like drops in the ocean: they apparently cannot change the entire educational system. But the ocean of whole human community could be flooded by many such contained experiments that would transform it, if the most meaningful of them could be fostered, spread and developed. ..."

Listen to part of a television programme in which Dr Oliver Sacks talks about a neurological condition called Amusia.

ARGuing is a Comenius project funded within the European Union Lifelong Learning programme for the promotion of language learning for secondary school students (ages 13 to16).\n\nThe project has created a special collaborative, multilingual game, called an Alternate Reality Game,

Author: Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?; Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent; Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent; Bergen, Henry, 1873-; Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910 Volume: 2 Subject: Troy (Extinct city) -- Romances, legends, etc Publisher: London : Published for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Language: English Call number: AIF-1840 Digitizing sponsor: MSN Book contributor: Pratt - University of Toronto Collection: toronto

Author: Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?; Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent; Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent; Bergen, Henry, 1873-; Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910 Volume: 1 Subject: Troy (Extinct city) -- Romances, legends, etc Publisher: London : Published for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Language: English Call number: AIF-1840 Digitizing sponsor: MSN Book contributor: Pratt - University of Toronto Collection: toronto

In February 2005 Caption Reporters and National Public Radio ushered in a new era by captioning a live radio show. An in-studio captioner captured the interview / call-in program as it happened, then streamed the text to the internet in realtime.

I just tried this (without creating an account or anything) ... it let me put a phone number in, and type out a message for it to send by a VOICE message, along with choices. It called instantly, and the moment my wife made her choice (by pressing 3 on her phone), the answer showed up on the website.

I have been working over the last few months on designing a Business English course for a virtual school called languagelab.com that has an island in Second Life

helps in learning and remembering word and it's meaning easily by providing memory aids (called mnemonics) for each word. Mnemonics connect to-be-remembered meaning of words with a systematic and organized set of images or words that are already firmly established in long-term memory and can therefore serve as reminder cues.

f you want to know how to learn English verbs with an iPod, you are in the right place. Rory Ryder has published a book called "101 English Verbs for your iPod", and it is FANTASTIC!

Represents "a list of 10 'motivational macrostrategies', which ... [Zoltan Dornyei & Kata Czizer] called the 'Ten commandments for motivating language learners'" (¶9, retreived 2011.08.08).