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GRAMMAR
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
GRAMMAR CENTRAL
Links to a teacher's notes on
grammar lessons as well ascopies of the lessons themselves.
http://tinyurl.com/94q5d
GUIDE TO GRAMMAR AND STYLE: JACK LYNCH
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/contents.html
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://grammar.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.
http://www.englishmaze.com/
USINGENGLISH.COM
A large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools and
resources for students, teachers, learners, and academics.
http://www.usingenglish.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/
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
ANIMALS AT THE EXTREMES: THE DESERT ENVIRONMENT
This unit is the first in a series of three on Animals at the extreme.
It is concerned with the integration of behaviour anatomy, physiology
and biochemistry in diverse vertebrates that live
in deserts.
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2815
CATS CAN FLY
http://tinyurl.com/3ccp3e
NUTRITION: PROTEINS
This unit studies 'proteins'.
Starting with a simple analysis of their
molecular make up, the unit moves on to look at the importance of
proteins and how they are digested and absorbed.
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=1605
THE RESTLESS UNIVERSE
Fascinating overview of the ‘big ideas’ that have shaped physics from
the time of Kepler to the present day.
Using little mathematics, the
unit surveys fundamental features of key physical theories and provides
the essential context for the further study of physics.
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3267
HEALTH
DISABOOM
Connecting the millions touched by disability
http://disaboom.com/
FOOD FORCE
Designed for children aged 8-13 years and provides a variety of
information and activities regarding global hunger.
http://www.food-force.com/
GET BODY SMART
http://tinyurl.com/2ljpjq
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S VEGAN
Being vegan doesn't mean you have to eat wheatgrass and alfalfa sprouts. Most grocery stores carry an array of great-tasting vegan options.
Many products, including fantastic faux franks, veggie
burgers, chicken-free chicken patties, flavored soy milks, nondairy ice creams, and other sensational soy-based snacks, are marketed to vegetarians and vegans.
There's also an abundance of chips, dips, cookies, candies, frozen pies, soups, and other mouth-watering items by mainstream food manufacturers that are also vegan.
http://www.peta.org/accidentallyVegan/
VEGCOOKING
http://www.vegcooking.com/
ARTS
AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS
Americans for the Arts is a leading nonprofit organization for
advancing the arts in America.
We are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.
To achieve our goals, we partner with local, state, and national arts organizations; government agencies; business leaders; individual philanthropists; educators; and funders throughout
the country.
http://www.artsusa.org/
CRITICAL DANCE FORUM
An international non-profit entity founded for the purpose of promoting and supporting the dance arts, including dance arts professionals, organizations, companies, presenters, writers and audiences.
http://www.ballet-dance.com/
JAZZ OLD TIME ONLINE
Over 18,000 songs in the public domain
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/index.htm
NPR MUSIC
http://www.npr.org/music/ |
WRITING/JOURNALISM
NEWSROOM 101.COM
Ron Hartung and Gerald Grow. Offers around 1,650 free, self-instructional exercises for journalists, writers, editors, students and others who want to review (or learn) journalistic language, as governed by the Associated Press Stylebook.
http://www.newsroom101.com/
PRESENTATION SKILLS
Ten Do's And Don'ts
http://tinyurl.com/ypns9t
STUDY SKILLS - WRITING SKILLS
These modules will take you through the process of how to go about researching information and producing well structured and dynamic pieces of academic writing.
http://tinyurl.com/2nn9vj
WRITING SKILLS
Good writing skills are essential for effective communication. Learning to write well takes time and practice.
http://www.infoplease.com/homework/writingskills1.html
REFERENCES
BASIC LEGAL CITATION
http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/
FREE RICE
For each word you get right in this vocabulary game,
the site
donates 20 grains of rice via the U.N. to help end world hunger.
http://www.freerice.com/index.php
HIGH-BEAM ENCYCLOPEDIA
FREE online library – now with reference works like Oxford Dictionaries,
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia and millions of newspaper and magazine
articles.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
PHONE SCOOP
Cell phone news, info, reviews, community, and deals
http://www.phonescoop.com/
SCRINDEX
ScrIndex for Microsoft Word finds and indexes scripture citations in a
Microsoft Word document, creating an index.
http://www.editorium.com/scrindex.htm
HISTORY
THE BETTER HOUR
The inspirational and remarkable story of William Wilberforce, who used his position as a British parliamentarian to end the trans-Atlantic slave trade and launch 69 organizations for the betterment of society.
http://www.thebetterhour.com/tbh/.
LET YOUR MOTTO BE RESISTANCE:
AFRICAN AMERICAN PORTRAITS
Consists of 100 photographic portraits of prominent African Americans.
The portraits were selected from the collections of the National
Portrait Gallery as part of the inaugural exhibition of the new ational Museum of African American History and Culture.
The show begins a national tour in October 2008.
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/motto/index.html
THE MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE COUNCIL HOUSE:
African American Women Unite For Change
http://tinyurl.com/yqeqph
WORST JOBS IN HISTORY
A journey through 2,000 years of British history and the worst jobs
of each era.
As seen in both Channel 4 Worst Jobs series. http://tinyurl.com/4tvg4
EDUCATION
CONNEXIONS - SHARING KNOWLEDGE
AND BUILDING COMMUNITIES
Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely
sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on
the Web.
Our
Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone — from
children to college students to professionals —organized in small
modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses.
All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license.
http://cnx.org/
THE EDUCATION PODCAST NETWORK
An effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast
programming that may be helpful to teachers looking
for content to
teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning
in the 21st century. http://www.epnweb.org/
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS
A public voice of mathematics education, providing vision, leadership
and professional development to support teachers
in ensuring equitable
mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students.
http://www.nctm.org/about/default.aspx?id=166
SUMMER SEMINARS AND INSTITUTES
FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making
agency of the federal government.
Each year the NEH offers teachers
opportunities to study humanities topics in a variety of Summer Seminars
and Institutes.
The application deadline is March 3, 2008 (postmark).
http://neh.gov/projects/si-school.html
TEACHING LD
Largest international professional organization focused
on Learning
Disabilities.
The purpose of TeachingLD is to provide trustworthy
and
up-to-date resources about teaching students with
Learning Disabilities.
http://www.dldcec.org/
YOUNG MINDS INSPIRED
A series of annual study guides that will focus on the different branches
of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. These teaching guides
focus on the art of the many craft areas involved in creating a motion
picture.
Students will learn about different aspects of film making as
they complete the activities in these kits.
The activities are designed to
capitalize on students' natural interest in current films and the excitement
generated by the Academy Awards to teach valuable lessons in critical
thinking and creative writing, and to develop visual literacy skills.
Each teaching guide is available in its entirety to download
and print.
http://www.oscars.org/teachersguide/index2.html |
