Online Communities Resource URL Comments NiceNet http://www.nicenet.org Web-based, easy-to-use service for students and teachers Tapped In http://www.tappedin.org Excellent source for both virtual classrooms, but also professional development opportunities for teachers in all disciplines E-Pals http://www.epals.com Commercial, international e-mail pen-pal service that also hosts a variety of environments similar to virtual classrooms (email, chatting) Yahoo Groups http://groups.yahoo.com A place to get an more hands-on experience for features of virtual classrooms iVisit http://ivisit.info Real-time video teleconferencing * Use with caution! TOP Blogs TypePad http://www.typepad.com hosted weblogging service; 30 days' free trial Live Journal http://www.livejournal.com hosted weblogging service; free and paid versions Blogger http://www.blogger.com hosted weblogging service; free and paid versions Movable Type http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype for more advanced weblog publishing L*Blog http://calper.la.psu.edu/blog/ Test blog at CALPER Audioblogger http://www.audioblogger.com/ Add audio posts to your blog Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-line Collaboration http://llt.msu.edu/vol7num2/emerging/default.html Overview article by Bob Godwin-Jones TOP Wikis Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org Multilingual encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute L-Wiki http://calper.la.psu.edu/uniwiki/HomePage Main resource page for wikis at CALPER About Wikis http://calper.la.psu.edu/uniwiki/AboutWikis Explanation of wikis CyberWiki http://uniwikis.la.psu.edu/cyberwiki/HomePage Our very own wiki farm! TOP Materials Development Quia http://www.quia.com Create your own web-based FL activities; $49 poer year; 30-day free trial Hot Potatoes http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/ No charge for educational purposes, but you must register QuizStar http://quiz.4teachers.org/ Create web-based quizzes; free Authoring in CALL http://www.edvista.com/claire/author.html Links to other options for materials development TOP Digital Audio Software Availability Platform File Formats Comments Sound Recorder Comes as part of Windows operating system PC wav Easy to use; wav files are very large PureVoice Free download: http://www.cdmatech.com/solutions/products/purevoice.jsp PC & Mac Purevoice, wav on PC Purevoice, aiff on Mac Creates very small files; can insert or overwrite in a file Audacity Free download: http://audacity.sourceforge.net PC & Mac wav, aiff, mp3 Allows editing; the most complicated; version 1.1.1 available in several languages Audio Recording Options in the Language Media Center Labs http://www.polyglot.pitt.edu/about/audio.html TOP More PSMLA http://www.psmla.org Pennsylvania State Modern Languages Association home page CWES http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/cwes/index.html Center for West European Studies home page Polyglot http://www.polyglot.pitt.edu Robert Henderson Language Media Center home page Famous Bilingual Site http://www.pitt.edu/~FLsites/bilingual Check out Devin's list of role models for our students! Edvista http://edvista.com/claire Claire's home page CALPER http://calper.la.psu.edu/index.php Home page of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research Foreign Language Computer-Mediated Activity Resource Library http://calper.la.psu.edu/taflp/database.php Database of activities; sponsored by CALPER World Clock http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ Useful for figuring out time zones for international chats! Skype http://www.skype.com/ a program for audio chat via the Internet LLT Journal http://llt.msu.edu/ a journal for second and foreign language educators Xanga http://www.xanga.com community of online diaries and journals Language Teaching Clipart Library http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/clipart/ University of Victoria; 3000 images TOP

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