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1. Here you can haz dictionaries. And if you use them in the Language Resource Center, you even have the chance to  run into someone who can show you how to use them well.
2. http://linguistlist.org/sp/GetWRListings.cfm?WRAbbrev=Dict
3. http://lexicall.widged.com/repository/listing.php?category=words

The following LRC Moodle metacourses for teaching materials are available to LCS and ELTI  (including LRC-Resource  with training materials for using language learning technology in and outside of the LRC, as well as for independent study languages).

The naming scheme follows the course abbreviations taught in the departments the LRC supports:

These courses appear in the Training branch of the Moodle-courses tree-menu on the left (for all study programs you teach in):

The metacourse for a language (or field of study)  is accessible to all students studying this language during the term of their study.

Some non-western, but character-based languages benefit from having keyboard overlay stickers installed. Here is a list of what the LRC has:

Here are photos of the Arabic and Cyrillic keyboards:

We installed the stickers, so that they reflect the software layout of the keyboard that you get when choosing the respective language from the international toolbar. Note that the letters marked in red on the Cyrillic keyboard picture below are not supported by the Russian keyboard layout:

Since only one set can be added to any existing physical keyboard, the teacher computer keyboard can not have an overlay. The student computers with overlays are the listening stations and computers 6,7,12,13,18,19 on the LRC layout map.

Remember that the On-screen-keyboard software remains accessible at all PC’s through clicking “Start”, “Run”, typing “OSK”, clicking "OK".

Example where you can get your own keyboard overlay stickers. 

With the demise of Wimba Voice on campus, Languages and Culture Studies lost some of their online learning acitivities and are still looking for a replacement, perferably within Moodle.

I have looked through some options and would recommend the following applications for a test install:

1. NanoGong, free (as in kittens). More info here:

http://plagwitz.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/introduction-of-nanogong-free-open-source-voice-recorder-for-moodle/

2. WebSwami, a language learning platform, not free, and can also record video, and do much more. More info here:

http://plagwitz.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/webswami-a-moodle-compatible-language-learning-platform-for-self-access-homework-asynchronous-distance-learning/

The LRC offers the following foreign language characters writing support:

The support is best accessed from the “international toolbar”, like so:

You can also use the windows on-screen keyboard to input non-Western characters on a computer that has not the corresponding keyboard overlay stickers. In the small-group workspaces, which have writing pads, you can also use the MS-Handwriting IME for East-Asian languages.