DOE and DOD Learning Registry
learningregistry.org
On November 8, 2011, the U.S. Departments of Education and Defense announced the launch of Learning Registry, which is described as an open source community and technology designed to improve the quality and availability of learning resources in education. Learning Registry is a communication system that allows existing educational portals and online systems to publish, consume, and share important information about learning resources with each other and the public, while respecting the privacy of individual users. The new site provides technical guides for getting started and publishing to the registry. There is also news and information about events, as well as a community discussion group.

Blog and Resources for Teaching Heritage Spanish Speakers
leemosjuntos.wordpress.com
Created by a middle school Spanish teacher who found she needed to develop a program for heritage speakers in her class, leemosjuntos is a blog with reading comprehension packets for more than 40 books, organized by series.

CryptoKids Language Barriers Game
www.nsa.gov/kids/home.shtml
The National Security Agency/Central Security Service website has a section called “America’s CryptoKids, Future Codemakers and Codebreakers,” which includes the Language Barriers game. The game is like Concentration, but is designed to help kids learn how to say hello in different languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. Kids will enjoy the fun, but teachers and parents will appreciate the value of demonstrating that learning other languages
can lead to exciting career opportunities in the future.

Polish Language Website
polish.slavic.pitt.edu
The Polish Language Website based at the University of Pittsburgh is devoted to the teaching of the Polish language worldwide. Access to it is free. It contains an online Polish dictionary, a grammar reference, a first-year Polish course, computer-graded language quizzes, a collection of Polish short stories, a Polish songbook, and downloadable installments of the Polish soap opera “W labiryncie.”

Language Teachers Wiki
languageteacherscollaborate.pbworks.com/w/page/32526867/FrontPage
Language Teachers Collaborate is a wiki dedicated to language teachers collaborating and sharing their best ideas, information, resources, and advice.

Slowly Spoken News in German
www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,8030,00.html
German students can practice their listening comprehension with authentic materials at this site, which features the 11 o’clock news from the Deutsche Welle German radio program spoken slowly and clearly. In addition to the audio files to download to MP3 players, the full text for print is also available.

Game for Learning Katakana and Hiragana
difint.com/kb/
The KanaBattle game includes three tournaments, Katakana/Romaji, Hiragana/Romaji, or Hiragana/Katakana. The KanaBattle mobile app can also be downloaded for free from the site.

Resource for Greek Pronunciation and Ancient Greek Music
www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/start.htm
On this site, Stefan Hagel with the Austrian Academy of Sciences provides information and audio examples of ancient Greek music and the instruments used to play it. There are also links to his related materials that include ancient Greek pronunciation, Homeric singing, and music of the ancient Near East.

Linguistics Projects at the University of Hong Kong
www0.hku.hk/linguist/res/index.html
On the website of the Linguistics Department in the School of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong there are links to a number of research projects, both current and completed. Topics include the Red Dragonfly Chinese Word-Based Input Method, based on the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong’s Cantonese Romanization Scheme and the University of Hong Kong’s Cantonese Corpus. It uses words and short phrases as its fundamental input units so as to avoid the problem of homophones. It is available for download on the site. Another project available on the site is a Dagaare–Cantonese–English lexicographical resource. Visitors to the site can also learn about the award-winning project, “The Use of Information Technology in Teaching Language and Linguistics Courses,” by two investigators at the University of Hong Kong and one at New York University.

French Research and Reference Tools at ARTFL
artfl-project.uchicago.edu
The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of the Laboratoire ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and the Division of the Humanities and Electronic Text Services of the University of Chicago. Subscriptions are available only to universities and research institutions, not to individuals; however, there are a number of databases and reference tools available on the site that are free for public use.

Virtual Manipulatives in English, French, and Spanish
nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives at Utah State University is a National Science Foundation-supported project that began in 1999 to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K–12 emphasis). The project
includes dissemination and extensive internal and external evaluation, and it is available in English, French, and Spanish.

Free Clipart for Students and Teachers
etc.usf.edu/clipart/
Clipart ETC is an online service of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse, and is produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology in the College of Education at the University of South Florida. It currently has more than 65,000 pieces of free clipart and says that it is growing every week. Teachers looking for clipart to use in the classroom can select from a number of categories, many of interest to language educators. They include alphabets, flags and emblems, countries and regions, art, literature, people, education, music, and mythology.

Virtual Visits to the World’s Art Museums
www.googleartproject.com
The Google Art Project allows visitors to take virtual tours of some of the world’s most famous art museums, selecting works of art and navigating through interactive floor plans. The artwork view feature facilitates viewing featured works of art at high resolution, and using the custom viewer zooms in on paintings. Expanding the info panel allows visitors to read more about a work of art, or find more works by that artist and watch related YouTube videos. There is even a “Create an Artwork Collection” feature for saving specific views of any of the artworks and building your own collection.