This book reports on and analyses the Integrated Language Learning & Social Awareness Project, a unique project in the field of Foreign Language Learning and Telecollaboration till now in the world. It takes the existing research on telecollaborative learning, content and language integrated learning and e-learning and combines them into one coherent concept in which language acquisition and enhancement takes place through task-led research on the specific issue of "Healthy Cities" by targeting language learners from around the world. The book delivers insights into the planning and the development of the project including collaborative task design and its underlying theoretical and research frameworks. It then goes on to reflect on how these underlying frameworks are developed further to broaden the existing paradigms of research in the field of telecollaborative language learning.

For over a year and a half, Santa Fe, New Mexico's Poet Laureate, 2008-2010, Valerie Martinez worked closely with three generations of eleven Santa Fe families in the creation of unique works of art and poetry. The project and exhibition, entitled "Lines and Circles: A Celebration of Santa Fe Families," encouraged positive relationships within and between families, promoted meaningful community dialogue, and generated a body of art and poetry that commemorates family life in Santa Fe. This book documents the project and the families, celebrating art at the heart of community life. Ms. Martinez says, "This project was a labor of family and community love more than anything else. The "Lines and Circles" families will tell you that in addition to creating important family works of art that will stay with them for generations, they have come together, even more meaningfully, as families. They have also worked alongside and become friends with families they didn't know, across the 'invisible lines' that sometimes tend to separate us as city residents. "Lines and Circles" is our gift to ourselves, to our fellow residents, and to this beautiful city that means everything to us."

It's not just the good girls who get their Christmas wishes;the naughty ones get something "X"tra special in their stocking this year. These three steamy novellas, as red hot as Christmas candy and just as spicy, are guaranteed to keep fires burning all winter long.

Hot For Christmas
P.J. Mellor

Boutique owner Allison Conroe just found her perfect Christmas gift, all gorgeously wrapped in well-worn denim. Rugged Texas loner Chris MacNeal is a sexy Scrooge determined to rattle Allison's chains--but the merry vixen has more satisfying games in mind. . .

Triple Xmas
Valerie Martinez

All Deb wants for Christmas is a threesome with her boyfriend and hunky lumberjack Dale Lix. Unfortunately, her environmentalist lover considers Dale the "enemy." But with a little steamy persuasion--and some help from Mother Nature--Deb is ready to kindle her own kind of forest fire. . .

Cabin Fever
Melissa MacNeal

Washing away his holiday heartbreak in whisky and solitude, ranch owner Danny Black thinks he's hallucinating when he sees a Christmas angel, wings and all, through a blizzard. It's cold outside, but soon things are heating up in his cozy cabin as angel costume and cowboy boots are tossed aside for some sinfully sweet holiday cheer. . .

WARNING This is a REALLY HOT book. (Sexually Explicit)

Valerie Martinez is a proud San Franciscan native. She moved to New York to attend Barnard College where she graduated with a Creative Writing degree. She currently lives in Brooklyn.