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Webgrammar's Food for Thought - ISSN: 1530-034X
Editor and Publisher: Judy Vorfeld
mailto:judyvorfeld@webgrammar.com http://www.webgrammar.com
January 2006
CONTENTS
Note from Judy
Windows Keystroke & Tips - Basic keystrokes using Windows key
Did you Know - Verbs for "A Number" and "The Number"
Recommendations
Arts
Education
Grammar
Health
History
References
Science/Technology
Writing/Journalism
Judy's Photo Gallery
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NOTE FROM JUDY
1. Joy! Arizona Highways recently informed my sister, Jan Pierson,
that her article on our father and his 1940s Native American photo
jaunts will be published. In July 2007. They are _that_ backlogged.
2. The former Stumpers List has been changed to Project Wombat.
This is an e-mail discussion list for difficult reference questions.
The new sponsor is Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
It's a busy and valuable resource. I use the digest version. Here's
the URL if you want to subscribe to Project Wombat.
http://www.project-wombat.org/
3. Just received a submission of a website that teaches Hebrew verbs.
See grammar section below. Wonderful work by Jacob Richman, who is
a computer consultant. http://www.hebrew-verbs.co.il/
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WINDOWS KEYSTROKES & TIPS - Basic keystrokes using Windows key
http://tinyurl.com/djp3v
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DID YOU KNOW - Verbs for "A Number" and "The Number"
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DID YOU KNOW - How do I make sense of this sentence: "A number of
people is going to attend"? Style guides say that most collective
nouns are treated as singular, and "is" seems to fit with "number,"
but it doesn't look or sound right.
Diana Hacker, in A Writer's Reference, Fourth Edition,(Bedford/St.
Martin's), (G1-f) says to treat collective nouns as singular unless
the meaning is clearly plural. She goes on to explain that in a
sentence, the phrase "the number" is treated as singular, and
"a number" as plural.
It gives theses examples:
Singular: The number of school-age children is declining.
Plural: A number of children are attending the wedding.
Relax. You can say "A number of people are going to attend." Diana
Hacker says so!
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RECOMMENDATIONS
ARTS
GEORGE AND IRA GERSHWIN
http://www.gershwin.com/
THE POET SPEAKS OF ART
Harry Rusche, English Department, Emory University. This project is
designed for the students of English 205, "Introduction to Poetry."
http://tinyurl.com/amgoj
SHAKESPEARE FOR KIDS
http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=588
NOTES FROM THE ROAD
Erik Gauger's large format photography sings. Powerful,
amazing work.
http://www.notesfromtheroad.com/
ROBERT FROST OUT LOUD
Audio recordings and texts of Robert Frost poetry.
GLOSSARY OF POETIC TERMS
http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html
EDUCATION
FROG AND TOAD ARE FRIENDS
Lesson plans and teaching strategies
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/lobel.html
RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS
http://tinyurl.com/a86nc
LITERACY ACTIVITIES AND GAMES
Games created to help students learn the spellings of the
words highlighted in the KS3 National Strategy as those
most commonly misspelled by Year 7 students.
http://tinyurl.com/bbk8b
FRINDLE
Lesson Plan
http://tinyurl.com/4yg2q
VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR - TISSUE COLLEGE
Lesson plan.
http://kinderart.com/across/cater.shtml
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Lesson plan
GRAMMAR
ACTIVITIES FOR ESL STUDENTS
Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn
English as a Second Language (ESL). This project of The
Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of
contributions by many teachers.
http://a4esl.org/
COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH: PROFESSOR PAUL BRIANS' SITE
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
DAILY GRAMMAR
Check your grammar knowledge. Quizzes take four minutes.
http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.shtml
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
Special help in diagramming sentences
http://members.cox.net/teachro/
ENGLISH IDIOMS & PROVERBS
All pages have at least one picture each drawn by students.
http://humanities.byu.edu/elc/student/idioms/idiomsmain.html
EVERYTHING ESL
http://www.everythingesl.net/lessons/
GRAMMAR CENTRAL
Links to a teacher's notes on grammar lessons as well as copies
of the lessons themselves. Be sure to check the index, which is
an alphabetized list of definitions.
http://tinyurl.com/94q5d
LEARN HEBREW VERBS
Contains 300 Hebrew verbs conjugated in all tenses (past, present,
future, imperative). Choose a Hebrew or English menu to navigate
the site. You do not need Hebrew fonts to display the Hebrew
words. All words (including the nikud-vowels) are displayed using
graphics. There are over 10,000 graphic images in the system.
http://www.hebrew-verbs.co.il
MRS. BLUEZETTE'S GRAMMAR CORNER
"A PBS mind in an MTV world." Delightful, highly educational
articles by a wonderful English language wizard (umm...wizette).
http://www.newsblues.com/grammar.htm
PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
Outstanding as a quick reference for your grammar questions.
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
THE ENGLISH MAZE
A web-based learning system for individuals and schools
worldwide. Students can improve their pronunciation, speaking,
reading, listening, and writing skills. The site contains
hundreds of hours of material, much of which is free.
http://www.englishmaze.com
WEB ENGLISH TEACHER
Educators can take advantage of online technology to share
ideas and benefit from the work of others. Beginning teachers
can find guidance; experienced teachers can find inspiration.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
HEALTH
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
http://www.nih.gov/
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
http://www.who.int/en/
SPARK: Sports, Play, and Active Recreation for Kids
http://www.sparkpe.org/
HISTORY
CHETRO KETL GREAT KIVA
A 3D model produced by the University of California at Santa
Barbara's Department of Anthropology.
http://sipapu.ucsb.edu/html/kiva.html
POETIC WAVES: ANGEL ISLAND
From 1910 to 1940, the island served as immigration station for
newly arrived Asian American immigrants to the United States.
http://www.poeticwaves.net/
HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT STORE
http://www.hbc.com/hbcheritage/history/social/departmentstore/
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE WEST
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
THE 1906 SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE & FIRE
http://tinyurl.com/7rzvo
DELTA SOCIETY
The Delta Foundation was established in 1977. Delta's founders
wanted to understand the quality of the relationship between pet
owners, pets, and care givers, both human and veterinary, (hence
the "delta" name based on this triangle). At that time, pets
were widely considered luxury or throwaway items, not of central
importance to individual health and well-being.
http://www.deltasociety.org/
REFERENCES
ANIMATED KNOTS BY GROG
Knot-Tying for boating, climbing, fishing, scouting, and arborists
http://www.animatedknots.com/
NATIVE WEB
Resources for indigenous cultures around the world
http://www.nativeweb.org/
OXYMORONS
A combination of contradictory or incongruous words, the oxymoron
is a literary figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory
words, terms, phrases or ideas are combined to create a rhetorical
effect by paradoxical means.
http://www.oxymorons.info/
RADIO LOCATER
Links to over 10,000 radio station Web pages and over 2,500 audio
streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.
http://www.radio-locator.com/?xyz=2
LITERARY BIRTHS
http://www.waterborolibrary.org/birth.htm
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
TALKING GLOSSARY OF GENETIC TERMS
http://www.genome.gov/glossary.cfm
SCIENCE CINEMATHEQUE
The Museum of the Moving Image offers the Sloan Science Cinematheque
website, which is intended to serve as a general forum that will
enhance the public understanding of science and technology. The site
contains video coverage of panel discussion about science and film
held at the Museum’s headquarters. The student films address a wide
range of themes, including urban ornithology and a city-dweller
obsessed with botany.
http://www.movingimage.us/science/
WRITING/JOURNALISM
ASNE HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISM
http://www.highschooljournalism.org/
CITATION MACHINE
This website will help you properly cite print and electronic
resources in APA and MLA styles. Last updated January 2004.
http://tinyurl.com/co8ql
THE AMERICAN PRESS INSTITUTE
This site is managed by The Media Center, the unit at API focused
on Internet publishing, media convergence and the future of news.
http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/
USING QUOTATIONS IN YOUR ESSAY
http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/patten/usingquotes.html
CHECK FOR PLAGIARISM: Help from Copyscape
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=76073
THE MODERN WORD
"This site," says Yahoo!Weekly Picks, "tackles surrealism,
magical realism, modernism, postmodernism, and plain-old-weirdism
(our term) with a "network of literary sites dedicated to exploring
twentieth century writers who have pushed the envelope of
traditional narrative and structure."
http://www.themodernword.com/
WRITE VERSE FOR CHILDREN
http://www.writershelper.com/write-verse.html
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PHOTO GALLERY
Photo taken on Oahu, Hawaii by David Crook. Redigitizing by Judy Vorfeld
Photo of surfer taken by David Crook. Redigitizing by Judy Vorfeld
Photo of surfer taken by David Crook. Redigitizing by Judy Vorfeld
Photo of surfer taken by David Crook. Redigitizing by Judy Vorfeld
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