Ellipsis is a text analysis tool, community meeting place, and multimedia authoring environment. It provides a scaffold for faculty to experiment with technology and is a new way to author educational environments online. Ellipsis could function as an application for focused study of foreign language texts and translations, a space for student collaboration with native speakers, a writing portfolio tool, or a media analysis tool. The roadmap for ellipsis includes configurable spaces for faculty to try technologies, permeable spaces for interaction between faculty, students and learners, and media-rich spaces for annotation and commentary across different media types.