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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.

This website has huge potential but I CAN'T work out how to add my own audio files. Does anyone know? If so, please contact me!!!!

"However, like everything YouTube does, captions face a tremendous challenge of scale. Every minute, 20 hours of video are uploaded. How can we expect every video owner to spend the time and effort necessary to add captions to their videos? Even with all of the captioning support already available on YouTube, the majority of user-generated video content online is still inaccessible to people like me. To help address this challenge, we've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. The captions will not always be perfect (check out the video below for an amusing example), but even when they're off, they can still be helpful-and the technology will continue to improve with time. In addition to automatic captions, we're also launching automatic caption timing, or auto-timing, to make it significantly easier to create captions manually. With auto-timing, you no longer need to have special expertise to create your own captions in YouTube. All you need to do is create a simple text file with all the words in the video and we'll use Google's ASR technology to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for your video. This should significantly lower the barriers for video owners who want to add captions, but who don't have the time or resources to create professional caption tracks."

Automatic captions in YouTube in many languages PLUS: You can type up your own captions and upload and YouTube times them automatically through text-to-speech. Then, you can download the text file with the timings next to the captions. If this really works, wow!

Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale [English version, apparently from] Horwitz, E. K., Horwitz, M. B., & Cope, J. (1986). Foreign language classroom anxiety. The Modern Language Journal, 70(2), 125‐132.

Thank you for sharing this-something I have suspected for a long time but that is denied by many foreign languages teachers.

"Stay organised as a staff or as a class with media rich collaborative virtual sticky notes. Add text images, files, links, Google Documents and more. You can add due dates and see changes being made by others in real-time. Be organised on the go with the Android and iOS apps."

We teachers like to shake things up a bit and how better to begin than by adding a little randomness into your lessons. This is a great site that creates custom cubes which you can use as dice in class. They are easy to create and great for children make for a range of subjects and activities. Give it a roll. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

Integrazione completa delle due lingue (lis e lingua parlata) http://www.webmultimediale.org/malazeta/ Su questo sito potete trovare un bellissimo video di un gruppo rock che recita,cantando, una poesia di primo levi insieme ad un ragazzo sordo che "canta" la stessa canzone. Il video a mio parere è stupendo, la lis da ancora più ritmo e suono alla canzone. Sempre sullo stesso sito potete trovare altri video simili, spettacoli teatrali per esempio, tutti accompagnati da sottotitoli e lis. Il progetto è del prof. Roberto Ellero. I suoi studi si concentrano su come rendere i video accessibili, unendo lis e sottotitoli.