Food for Thought - February 2005
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Webgrammar's Food for Thought - ISSN: 1530-034X
Editor and Publisher: Judy Vorfeld
mailto:judyvorfeld@webgrammar.com URL: http://www.webgrammar.com
FEBRUARY 2005
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CONTENTS
Note from Judy
Windows Keystroke & Tips - Close the active window
Did you Know - Capitalizing "mother" and "father," etc.
Recommendations
ARTS
EDUCATION
GRAMMAR
REFERENCES
SCIENCE
WRITING/JOURNALISM
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NOTE FROM JUDY
Hope you enjoy the variety and quality of this month's recommendations.
And if you ever have a favorite site you'd like to see highlighted in
this ezine, send me an email.
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WINDOWS KEYSTROKES & TIPS - Close the active window
CTRL+W or CTRL+F4
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DID YOU KNOW - Capitalizing "mother" and "father," etc.
Q. I get so confused as to when to capitalize "mom," "dad," etc.
Capitalize words that indicate family relationships when the word is
used as a substitute for a specific name. Otherwise, use lower case.
Examples:
Her elderly mother was ill.
They went to his father's office.
I explained that Mother was ill. (Substitute for a specific name.)
Let's go to Dad's office. (Substitute for a specific name.)
Prentice Hall Reference Guide to Grammar and Usage, fifth edition, by
Muriel Harris.
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RECOMMENDATIONS
ARTS
AMERICA'S FIRST LOOK INTO THE CAMERA
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html
PEACE ART PROJECT CAMBODIA
PAPC brings together 23 students recruited from the Royal University
of Fine Art Phnom Penh utilizing decommissioned weapons to create
works of art.
http://www.peaceartprojectcambodia.org
EARTH AS ART
View our planet through the beautiful images taken by the Landsat-7
satellite - and most recently, the Terra Satellite's Advanced Spaceborne
Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER).
http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.htm
AFRICAN FOLK MUSIC SITE: CORA CONNECTION
Information on new recordings, artist profiles, and documentation
on traditional West African instruments, like the kora, balaophone
and ngoni. Ft. Worth resident, composer, & kora player David Gilden
maintains the Cora Connection web site. This site is devoted to the
West African harp-lute, kora and related music and culture.
http://www.coraconnection.com/
LIBRARYPOP.ORG
Public library book selection specialists have Booklist, Library Journal
and Kirkus Reviews. Academic book specialists have Choice. School
librarians have School Library Journal. However, the library community
has never produced a library-specific collection development tool
specifically for popular music and film...until now.
http://librarypop.org/
THE BALLERINA GALLERY
http://www.ballerinagallery.com/
Indiana University Sheet Music Collection
http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/s/sheetmusic/
EDUCATION
EducationGuardian.co.uk's interactive guide to universities and
colleges is the most comprehensive source of information on the
UK's academic sector.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/universityguide2004
20Q.NET
Play 20 Questions against an artificial intelligence engine
http://www.20q.net/
KANJI ALIVE
Created at the University of Chicago, Kanji Alive is a searchable
Web-based tool that is designed to help beginning and intermediate-
level Japanese language learners read and write kanji (a Japanese
system of writing that utilizes characters borrowed or adapted
from Chinese writing).
http://kanjialive.lib.uchicago.edu/
OLOGY
OLogy is a production of the National Center for Science Literacy,
Education & Technology at the American Museum of Natural History.
http://ology.amnh.org/
LIFE AT THE END OF THE ROAD
Visitors find themselves whirling around an antiquated map of South
America as it scrolls through the various countries of South America,
then finally landing on the area known as Patagonia. Created by persons
at The University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass
Communication and Universidad de Los Andes, this website profiles
the day-to-day existence of the people. In English and Spanish.
http://endoftheroad.org/
GRAMMAR
COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH: PROFESSOR PAUL BRIANS' SITE
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
DAILY GRAMMAR
A great way to check grammar knowledge. Quizzes take four minutes.
http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html
GRAMMAR CENTRAL
Links to both 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://www.longview.k12.wa.us/mmhs/wyatt/homework/grammar/gramm.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 to use as a quick reference for your grammar questions.
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
GREEK GRAMMAR ON THE WEB
http://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~u0013314/greekg.htm
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.
www.englishmaze.com
REFERENCES
ANIMAL DIVERSITY WEB
An online database of animal natural history, distribution,
classification, and conservation biology at the University of
Michigan
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
ALLPAGES.COM YELLOW PAGES
Comments - Online yellow pages and business directory for US States.
Search for businesses or browse by states, cities, or categories. If
a surfer wants to check out all farms-related businesses, he could go
to http://www.allpages.com/agriculture/farms/.
http://www.allpages.com/
INFORMATION SECURITY GLOSSARY
http://www.yourwindow.to/information-security/
MARATHI AND ENGLISH
Website by Madhukar Narayan Gogate, a retired structural engineer
who uses Marathi (mothertongue), English, Hindi, and Sanskrit.
Marathi articles are in Devanagari script in pdf format.
http://www.mngogate.com/
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD HISTORY
http://www.bartleby.com/67/
ALL THAT JAS: JOURNAL ABBREVIATION SOURCES
Access to the full titles of journal abbreviations
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm
THINK! BABY NAMES
Etymological dictionary of the first names of babies.
Pronunciation, origins, meanings, notes, variants, and popularity.
http://www.thinkbabynames.com
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE OFFICIAL ABBREVIATIONS
States and Possessions, Street Suffixes, and Secondary Unit
Designators.
http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/abbrev.html
THE RUSSELL GROUP
An association of 19 major research-intensive universities of the
United Kingdom. Formed in 1994 at a meeting convened in the Hotel
Russell, London, the Group is composed of the Vice-Chancellors/
Principals of the Universities. In 2002/3, Russell Group Universities
accounted for over 60% (£1.6 billion) of UK Universities' research
grant and contract income, approximately 55% of all doctorates awarded
in the United Kingdom, and approximately 35% of all students studying
in the UK from outside the EU.
http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/index1.html
SCIENCE
INFECTION DETECTION PROTECTION
http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/infection/infectionindex.html
MICROBE ZOO
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/
DICTIONARY OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/abbrev.html
SIMPLE MACHINES
EdHeads offers five interactive, animated modules to educate second-
through sixth-graders about simple machines. By identifying the many
machines located throughout a house, students can learn about fulcrums,
wheel and axles, levers, pulleys, inclined planes, and much more.
http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/index.htm
WRITING/JOURNALISM
BEST OF PHOTOJOURNALISM 2004
http://www.nppa.org/competitions/best_of_still_photojournalism/2004/
A COLLECTION OF WORD ODDITIES AND TRIVIA
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html
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