Why It's Time to Learn Another Language

presents a great list and poster about the benefits of being bilingual. See  http://www.edudemic.com/learn-another-language-bilingual/

Stay Up to Date-- Upcoming Conferences

ATP Innovations in Testing Conference
March 2-5, 2014 | Scottsdale, AZ
Measured Progress sponsors and exhibits

http://www.innovationsintesting.org/     

Measured Progress Assessment Leadership Conference
March 7, 2014 | Las, Vegas, NV
http://www.measuredprogress.org/alc

ASCD Annual Conference
March 15–17, 2014 | Los Angeles, CA
Measured Progress exhibits
http://ac14.ascd.org/Default.aspx

OWL Testing Software supports current innovations in assessment. OWLTS is extremely flexible to enable you to get the data you need.

COLUMBIA, CORNELL, AND YALE NOW USING OWL TEST MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Three More Top Schools have selected the OWL Test Management System for Language Assessments

Pittsburgh, PA (PRWeb) 20 February 2014 -- OWL Testing Software announced today that the universities of Columbia, Cornell and Yale and are using the OWL Test Management System for their Shared Course Initiative. The Shared Course Initiative is a cooperative learning program coordinated by the language centers at each of the three schools. Instructors participating in this Shared Course Initiative will use the OWL Test Management System (TMS) to manage language assessments for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL).

For more information, please see
https://www.owlts.com/yale-columbia-cornell-using-owlt-testing-software.asp

Bloomberg Rankings: The Languages of Business

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzJHNyWoGTmnSm4wNGc5TUJHTVdrejJybnFNSHIyV3dYV3VV/edit

America the Beautiful in Different Languages

Check out the different languages...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443Vy3I0gJs&feature=share&list=PLCIVZWq1FAwcWJmgdF5o3-QTZZ-OnBUgA

Why Machines Alone Cannot Solve the World's Translation Problem

 

Huff Post Tech
Nataly Kelly
VP, Market Development at Smartling and Co-Author, ‘Found in Translation’, Posted: 01/09/2014 
  
Why Machines Alone Cannot Solve the World’s Translation Problem

Sixty years ago this week, scientists at Georgetown and IBM lauded their machine translation “brain,” known as the 701 computer. The “brain” had successfully translated multiple sentences from Russian into English, leading the researchers to confidently claim that translation would be fully handled by machines in “the next few years.”

Fast forward six decades, and MIT Technology Review makes a remarkably similar proclamation: “To translate one language into another, find the linear transformation that maps one to the other. Simple, say a team of Google engineers.”

Simple? Not exactly.  

Read article at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nataly-kelly/why-machines-alone-cannot-translation_b_4570018.html

Give Bilingual Students Credit!

Does your school district acknowledge and reward students with  bilingual ability?

OWL Testing can provide the testing tools to give bilingual students an opportunity to earn a world language certificate for their native language that counts toward their foreign language requirement in college and enhances their prospects with employers.