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Refereed Paper with Presentation and Interactive Activity (40 minutes)

Katherine Watson, Coastline Community College, Newport Beach, California, USA, Bizarrissime@gmail.com
 * Googleries, oui oui!**

Google.com has risen to worldwide prominence as the pre-eminently visited site on the Internet. Besides having developed simply an uncluttered search engine, Google is in continuous creative progress, conceiving an increasingly multi-faceted set of Web-based products facilitating and expediting access to audio, video, or print data at any time anywhere and in multiple tongues. Serendipitously enough for students of language and culture online, these Google tools comprise a user-friendly set of utilities that can enhance learning. At Coastline Community College, twenty self-selected learners of French language and culture online have been afforded training and encouragement to use seven freely available Google tools in their target language as enhancements to their study. Besides learning vocabulary and grammar, these Googleries project participants have acquired a new awareness of alternative linguistic pragmatics, worldviews, and technical skills.

//Interactivity// Demonstration of and offering connections (via Urls, hyperlinks) to the seven Google tools used; Power Point slides; Google Plus

All Audiences language learning; Open Source; communication