Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning
www.coerll.utexas.edu
The mission of the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) is to produce and disseminate Open Educational Resources (OERs) for the Internet public (e.g., online language courses, reference grammars, assessment tools, corpora, etc.). The term OER refers to any educational material offered freely for anyone to use, typically involving some permission to re-mix, improve, and redistribute. COERLL seeks to promote a culture of collaboration and aims to reframe foreign language education in terms of bilingualism and/or multilingualism. Its projects include materials in languages such as Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Malayalam, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Yiddish, and Yoruba. COERLL also publishes a biannual newsletter, which can be found on the website.

International Music and Culture
www.mamalisa.com
Mama Lisa’s World includes children’s songs and nursery rhymes, poetry, book reviews, and food and recipes from around the world. In the “Kids’ Songs from Around the World”feature on the site, there are continents to click on to find different countries in order to hear the lyrics to songs from a certain country in English as well as the native language. Mama Lisa’s Blog contains conversations about the languages and cultures of the world, especially the songs and traditions of children.

Hiragana and Katakana Practice
www.realkana.com
The Real Kana website is for learners of hiragana and katakana to practice the characters of each. The site now also has daily pictures of hiragana and katakana from Japan, and an “I Like Japan” Kyoto journal and shop.

Classroom Donations Site
www.adoptaclassroom.org
Teachers can register their classrooms on the Adopt-A-Classroom website and become eligible for support by donors who are either searching the site or have requested that Adopt-A-Classroom select a classroom for them. According to the organization, while it works to find classroom donors, teachers who use the site’s resources to inform their communities about the program are adopted more quickly. Teachers use the funds (according to Adopt-A-Classroom, 100% of the donation goes to the teacher) to shop online from a network of affiliate partners that includes OfficeMax, Kaplan, the Teacher Store at Scholastic.com, Education Essentials, Milliken, Encyclopedia Britannica, and Classroom Direct, among others.

German Site for Children About Politics
www.hanisauland.de
Created by the Federal Centre for Political Education in Bonn, “Hanisauland” is a children’s site with a political theme. The title refers to the comic on the website, which is about the land of hippos, hares, and pigs where they are trying to run a democracy together. There is also a lexicon where selected topics are explained, such as terrorism or freedom of the press. In addition, the site has games and links to other projects.

Portuguese Idioms and Portuguese Restaurants
www.tagide.com/misc.html
Tágide Crista, aka Crista Lopes, has a list of Portuguese idioms and their literal English translations on her website, Tagide.com, as well as a list of a number of Portuguese restaurants found around the world.

French Language and Culture Site
www.maisondequartier.com
Maison de Quartier describes itself as a free cultural linguistic and interactive gate to France. It includes teaching activities based on original French documents, interactive lexicons, and lessons and exercises. In addition to the English version, because it is the result of a collaboration between French and Finnish specialists in teaching, designing, and programming, the site is also available in Finnish.

Spanish Exercises for the Internet Environment
mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios
Hosted by Ursinus College, this site was created by Juan Ramon de Arana because of a need to incorporate new materials into his teaching practices, as well as his interest in the emergence of new technologies. It includes self-check exercises and videos with introductions by native speakers.

Chinese Language Resources from YellowBridge
www.yellowbridge.com
The Chinese Language Center section of the YellowBridge site has flashcards, a Chinese memory game, and an etymology explorer. There is also information about Chinese literature and links to news stories about current events and business news stories.

Arabic Language Learning Modules
www.arabiccomplete.com
Arabic Complete has free language learning modules on the alphabet, useful phrases, numbers, seasons, and learning to read, as well as a number of dialogues for travelers, such as introductions, directions, and eating in a restaurant.

FEMA for Kids Resource in Spanish
www.listo.gov/ninos/home.html
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website has a section for kids about what to do in various natural disasters, and it is available in a Spanish version. “Ready Kids” has important facts for kids, and also explains how to create an emergency kit and how to plan for any situation. In addition, the site has fun and games such as a comic strip, a crossword puzzle, a matching game, a hidden treasure activity, a word search game, and coloring pages.

Korean Cultural Center
www.kccla.org
The Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles is operated by the Korean government’s Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, and its website has information about the country as well as the language. There are even some Korean language lessons on the site.

Galician Language Website
www.galego.org/english/index.html
The Galego.org website is intended to promote and provide information about the Galician language, including its history and how some English words are said in Galician. The site, which can be accessed in Spanish as well as English, also has a small English–Galician dictionary and other resources.

Children from Around the World Sing the KidEarth Song
www.kidearth.us/Site/KidEarth.html
A 12-year-old boy wrote a song about global warming called “100 Generations,” and then asked children from around the world to sing it to help him get out his message. On the KidEarth website, you can read the lyrics in English and other languages, download the sheet music, and watch videos of children from France, Taiwan, Venezuela, and other countries singing the song.

The Perseus Digital Library
www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper
Based in the Tufts University Department of Classics, the Perseus Digital Library has popular texts in Latin, Greek, and English, as well as an art and archaeology artifact browser. It has recently added digital editions of Aelian, Cassius Dio, Callistratus, Philostratus, the Athenian, Philostratus Minor, and Philostratus Major.