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"The infographic below, while simply designed to show students who are taking a MOOC for university level Spanish what the components of their class will be, does an excellent job showing a) just how online language learning can be (even if you're sitting at home alone) and b) how well language learning lends itself to online learning"

the Group Pattern Language Project's exciting new deck of 91 full-colour cards to help facilitators and participants make their group process work more effective. The deck is accompanied by a 5-panel explanatory legend card and a booklet describing the purpose of the deck, how it evolved, and some ideas for games and other activities using the deck.

Interesting search engine that searches in 2 languages side by side. Useful for language learners.

This booklet is intended to provide to all, both near and far, who are concerned with the creation, circulation and transfer of knowledge replies to certain questions they may have on the subject of copyright. It has no other objective than to clarify a complicated subject by translating legal language into language that can be easily understood by everyone.

Great looking site built by 1st years. "AllAboutLinguistics.com was created by first-year linguistics students at the University of Sheffield, supported by staff in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics. The website formed part of the students assessment, after they completed a course called Introduction to Linguistics, and it aims to share the knowledge they gained from this module with anyone outside the University who is interested in language and its study - especially A-Level students thinking of going on to study linguistics at University. We asked students to build the site because as beginners in linguistics themselves, they were in a good position to help explain the discipline to you."

Interesting. "We analyzed 700 million words, phrases, and topic instances collected from the Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers, who also took standard personality tests, and found striking variations in language with personality, gender, and age."

Links from a panel presentation on using Moodle for languages.

"Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age."

Blockly is a web-based, graphical programming language. Users can drag blocks together to build an application. No typing required.

Language partnerships - work with people across the world. Seems to be based around schools but poss still opportunity for tertiary.

UK HE site looking at how experiences of technology use can be represented so that these experiences can be used by others. It's not about 'language'.

On dotSUB you can view, upload, transcribe, and translate any video into and from any language. A great resource for translations and also just same language subtitles.

Tool to support online language learning.

Article on Web2.0 and social networking use by MFL teachers. "Most language teachers shun social networking sites and other Web 2.0 technologies. Some even see the phenomenon as a threat, according to new research. However, a growing grassroots network is taking advantage, says Yojana Sharma"

Timeline showing history of some programming languages.

Company using mobile phones for language learning