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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
FREE SCIENCE AND VIDEO LECTURES ONLINE
http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/
GEOSPATIAL ONE STOPWhile most people probably automatically think of the United States Geological
Survey, there are numerous groups within various agencies creating thousands
of maps that draw on the strengths of the field of geographic information
systems (GIS). This one-stop location allows users to draw on all of these
resources.
http://gos2.geodata.gov/wps/portal/gos
VETERINARY MEDICINE RESOURCES ON THE WEB
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/collections/eresourc/vetmed.html
NATIONAL BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTUREDIGITAL IMAGE LIBRARY
Fantastic digital library with main categories of animals,
bodies of water,
environmental issues, habitats, landscapes, and plants.
http://images.nbii.gov/index.html
THE OCEAN CONSERVANCY
http://tinyurl.com/3458h3
SCIENCE CAFÉ
Each week, the Science Café will give you a seat at this table. From stem
cells and what sells to great ideas, yeasty trends and budding controversies,
we will be developing a menu
for your mind. You can just "listen in" or, if
the mood strikes,
join
in the conversation by offering comments or suggesting
topics.
http://www.ucsf.edu/sciencecafe/index.html
vPLANTS
a Virtual Herbarium of the Chicago Region.
http://www.vplants.org/
WIRED SCIENCE
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/
HEALTH
24 LANGUAGES: HEALTH INFORMATION IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
http://library.med.utah.edu/24languages/
KIDNETIC
KIDS: for kids who like to play hard and have fun.
PARENTS: a great resource for raising a healthy child and offers a
special section just for parents.
HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND EDUCATORS. Developed in
partnership with American Academy of Family Physicians, American
College of Sports Medicine, American Dietetic Association,
International Life Sciences Institute Research Foundation/Center
for Health Promotion, and National Recreation and Park Association.
http://www.kidnetic.com/
WRITING/JOURNALISM
BOOKFINDER
BookFinder.com is a one-stop ecommerce search engine that searches over 100
million books for sale—new, used, rare,
out-of-print, and textbooks.
http://www.bookfinder.com
ENTER THE GATHER.COM
FIRST CHAPTERS WRITING COMPETITION
http://firstchapters.gather.com/
HISTORY
STORIES FROM THE HISTORY
OF U.S. GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE
http://www.trackedinamerica.org/
HISTORY OF BROADCASTING
http://www.donnahalper.com/history%20Links.htm |
ARTS
ATLAS OF PLUCKED INSTRUMENTS
http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/
JOSEPH CORNELL PAPERS ONLINE
Joseph Cornell, assemblagist, collagist, and filmmaker,
was born on December 24, 1903 in Nyack, New York.
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collectionsonline/cornjose/index.cfm
INDEPENDENT LENS ONLINE SHORTS FESTIVAL
The Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens presents the first annual Online Shorts Festival. The grand prizewinning films had their national television premiere
on SHORT STACK 2006, the acclaimed showcase for independent shorts.
http://tinyurl.com/3ykjp4
EDUCATION
KIDS' VID
Video Production for Students. Description: Kids' Vid is an instructional
website that gives teachers and students the tools necessary to implement
video production in the classroom.
http://kidsvid.altec.org/
MOODLE 1.7
A course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package
designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create
effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on
any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from
a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University.
http://moodle.org/
THE DATA AND STORY LIBRARY
An online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of
basic statistics methods. We hope to provide data from a wide variety
of topics so that statistics teachers can find real-world examples that
will be interesting to their students.
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/
A BAD CASE OF BULLYING
Using Literature Response
Groups With Students.
http://readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=377
MAKE BELIEFS COMICS
This site is geared for people of all ages who like to play
and explore.
This includes all people wanting a few minutes of fun, youngsters and
their parents, students and teachers, business executives trying to unwind
from the stress of work, activities directors and social workers who try
to help people express their deepest thoughts and feelings.
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC XPEDITIONS
Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards—and to
thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them
to life.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/
COFFEECUP SOFTWARE'S K-12 DONATION PROGRAM
Allows public schools to request its Educational Software Package (ESP).
Free for classroom use to elementary and secondary public schools, and
public libraries. School Administrators, Principals, Teachers and PTAs
are encouraged to complete the form on this page to get software for
their classroom computers today.
http://www.coffeecup.com/k12/
(Note from Judy: I use some of the
CoffeeCup software. Excellent. Great company with powerful communication
skills.)
WELCOME TO ISRAEL
Description: Created by the Embassy of Israel to educate English-
speaking children about Israel.
http://www.embassyofisrael.org/kids/
PLAGIARISM CHECKER
http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/
GOOGLE FOR EDUCATORS
http://www.google.com/educators/index.html
REFERENCES
AIR UNIVERSITY
The intellectual and leadership center of the Air Force.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/lane.htm
NATIONAL SERVICE-LEARNING CLEARINGHOUSE
http://www.servicelearning.org/
GUIDE TO BASEBALL FICTION
http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/baseball/
WIKIHOW
A collaborative writing project to build the world's largest
how-to manual.
http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
OYATE
Excellent source for children's books by and about
American Indians
http://www.oyate.org/
GURU LIB
Free Web service to organize your home library. Catalog your books, DVDs,
music CDs, games and software online using a book shelf metaphor.
http://www.gurulib.com/
ANIMAL RECORDINGS FROM THE MACAULAY LIBRARY, CORNELL
Formerly Library of Natural Sounds
http://www.animalbehaviorarchive.org/loginPublic.do
START HERE. GO PLACES.
Are you a high school or college student interested in a career in
business and accounting?
http://www.startheregoplaces.com/
netSERF: THE INTERNET CONNECTION
FOR MEDIEVAL RESOURCES
http://www.netserf.org/
THE MYSTERY READER
http://www.themysteryreader.com/
ESL (ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE)
RESEARCH GUIDE
http://www.epcc.edu/nwlibrary/esl_research_guide.htm
ONELOOK'S REVERSE DICTIONARY
Lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related
to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question,
or even a single word.
http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml
POVERTY AND CIVIL WAR :
WHAT POLICYMAKERS NEED TO KNOW
http://www.brookings.edu/views/papers/rice/poverty_civilwar.pdf
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