Welcome to our brand-new Cultura Community Site. Welcome to all of you, visitors, teachers or researchers. The site is intended for you - whether you have just heard about this project and want to learn more about it, whether you want to set up your own exchange or are already conducting yours, or whether you just want to access the archives.

If you are a visitor and have just heard about this project or want to find out more, we suggest you start with the section: Learn about Cultura which contains an FAQ, a Teachers’ Guide and a model site (in French) as well as published articles on the project.

If you are interested in setting up your own an exchange, click on: Create your own exchange. This is where you will find the Cultura Exchange Tool that will allow you to design your own questionnaires, make them accessible to your students, publish them as well as generate on-line discussion forums.

If you are interested in seeing which Cultura exchanges are currently taking place, see: Current Exchanges.

If you are a researcher and want to access all the past different Cultura exchanges, you will find them under: Archived Exchanges. The ones currently there are all in French but we hope to soon have archived exchanges in several languages.

Finally, if you want to meet other users of Cultura, make inquiries, share comments and pedagogical practices and ask questions, the Faculty Forum is the place to be. To participate in those forums, you will need to register for it.

Otherwise, feel free to just browse.

Note: the language of this site is English (the language that is most common to all of us), but if you want to write in another language in the forums, please feel free to do so.

And of course, you can always can reach the authors directly by emailing us: Gilberte Furstenberg (gfursten@mit.edu), Sabine Levet (slevet@mit.edu) or Shoggy Waryn (waryn@brown.edu)

Final note: the site is still somewhat under construction and will gradually evolve over time. All your suggestions are most welcome!