Re: [Flasc-l] Français Interactif

[kkelton]

I would like to add more information to James Davis' message about the  
University of Texas beginning French curriculum, Français Interactif,  
(http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/) and its companion grammar site, Tex's  
French Grammar (http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/).  Although we  
developed this curriculum for U. of Texas students, we have seen a huge  
rise in its use this fall (averaging over 400,000 hits a day) and we  
are very interested in who, what, and why.   Please let me know if you  
are encouraging your students to use these sites, and what they are  
finding most useful.  Our user statistics show that the killer app is  
the verb practice.

We would also like to remind users that this content is not in the  
'public domain.' Although it is available for personal educational and  
non-commercial use,  the University of Texas retains the intellectual  
property rights to all content on the site (video clips, audio clips,  
pdf files, html, server side programming, etc.)

Individual users may download and print pages as long as the copyright  
notice appears on the printout and the information is not altered in  
any manner.  UT does not allow any content to be redistributed,  
broadcast or copied to any other media, except with express written  
permission, as is the case with the University of Arkansas who publish  
the classroom activities in course packet format.   UArk has also set  
up a mirror site for their students and provides CDs of the audio  
material for student purchase.

See http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/html/co/ for complete copyright  
notice.

Karen Kelton (kkelton at mail.utexas.edu)	
Lower Division Coordinator			Homer Rainey Hall 2.106A
Dept. of French and Italian			tel (512) 471-5531
The University of Texas at Austin		fax (512) 471-8492
1 University Station B7600
Austin, Texas 78712-7600

First Year French at UT, 'Français Interactif':  www.laits.utexas.edu/fi
Tex's French Grammar:  www.laits.utexas.edu/tex
Summer Program in Lyon:  
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/frenchitalian/studyabroad/Lyon/ 
index.html