In this issue:

• Note from Judy
• Windows Keystroke & Tips - Windows Key Shortcuts
• Did you Know - Compound Possessives
• Recommendations
  • Arts
  • Education
  • Grammar
  • Health
  • History
  • References
  • Science/Technology
  • Writing/Journalism
  • Judy's Photo Gallery

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  NOTE FROM JUDY

  1. Thanks to Nicole Harrison, Jennie Farnsworth, and Rebecca Gatz for helping me with Webgrammar's state resources page.

  2. Daily Grammar (www.dailygrammar.com) recently started sending
     out lessons again after a hiatus. There's a short, fun grammar lesson Monday-Friday. There will also be a quiz each Saturday.

  3. I regret to inform you that Professor Charles Darling recently died. He worked for 35 years as an English professor at Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut. Through the years I had occasion to ask for his help. He always came through, and did so with grace and a warm sense of humor. While we've lost him, we have his amazing website to help and inspire us:
     http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm .

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  WINDOWS KEYSTROKES & TIPS - Windows Key Shortcuts

  http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/key/

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  DID YOU KNOW - Compound Possessives

  When you are showing possession with compounded nouns, the apostrophe's placement depends on whether the nouns are acting separately or together. So your first chore is to determine
  ownership.

  Example #1

  • Miguel's and Cecilia's new cars are in the parking lot.
    This means that each of them has at least one new car and
    that their ownership is a separate matter.

  • Miguel and Cecilia's new cars are in the parking lot.
    This construction tells us that Miguel and Cecilia share ownership of these cars. The possessive (indicated by 's) belongs to the entire phrase, not just to Cecilia.

  Example #2

  • Lewis and Clark's expectations were very much the same.
    This construction tells us that the two gentlemen held one
    set of expectations in common.

  • Lewis's and Clark's expectations were altogether different.
    This means that the expectations of the two men were different (rather obvious from what the sentence says, too). We signify separate ownership by writing both of the compounded proper nouns in the possessive form.

  When one of the possessors in a compound possessive is a personal pronoun, we have to put both possessors in the possessive form or we end up with something silly, says Professor D., like: "Bill and my car had to be towed last night."

  Example #3

  • Bill's and my car had to be towed last night.

  • Giorgio's and her father was not around much during their
    childhood. Giorgio's and her father was not around much during their childhood. (If you're not comfortable with this, you might have to do some rewriting so you end up talking about their father, instead. Or, you might revert to using both names: "Giorgio and Isabel's father wasn't around much . . . ." [and then "Giorgio" will lose the apostrophe +s].)

  Examples from http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm .

ARTS

HAY IN ART
A collection of great works of hay.
http://www.hayinart.com/

ECHOES OF AFRICA
Dance music, pop, jazz, rock, rap, blues - there aren't many
genres which don't carry an element of African 'DNA' somewhere
in their make up. The music we love has its foundation in a
blend of African and European sounds. We look at the influence
of the continent known as the "birthplace of humanity".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/features/africa

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

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

ONESTOP ENGLISH
Magazine for busy teachers
http://www.onestopenglish.com/index.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/

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

CRABFU STEAM TOYS
Live steam creations
http://www.crabfu.com/steamtoys/

IEE DIGITAL LIBRARY
Holds more than 50,000 technical papers from IEE Journals and magazines back to 1994.
http://www.ieedl.org/

PEW INSTITUTE FOR OCEAN SCIENCE
http://www.pewoceanscience.org

INSIDE THE BRAIN: AN INTERACTIVE TOUR
What happens in the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s disease?
This tour explains how the brain works and how Alzheimer's
affects it.
http://www.alz.org/brain/overview.asp

NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.htm

EDUCATION

THE CENTER FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE
http://www.lansing.cc.mi.us/cte/

DEL MAR COLLEGE-TEACHING AND LEARNING CENTER
http://www.delmar.edu/tlc/home.html

PRACTICAL MONEY SKILLS FOR LIFE
Designed to help educators, parents and students practice better
money management for life.
http://practicalmoneyskills.com/english/at_school/teachers/

REFERENCES

AFRICAN AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC, 1820-1920
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/sheetmusic/afam

ARCHIVES OF EVERY STATE IN THE U.S.
Courtesy Georgia's Secretary of State
http://tinyurl.com/9ljec

BALLROOM DANCERS.COM
http://www.ballroomdancers.com/

HOW PRODUCTS ARE MADE
http://www.madehow.com/

NATIVE NETWORKS
Created by the Film and Video Center of the National Museum of  the American Indian, and contains information about upcoming Native American film festivals and profiles of people actively working in the field.
http://www.nativenetworks.si.edu/frameset_flash.html

STANFORD ON ITUNES
Download faculty lectures, interviews, music and sports.
Play audio on your iPod, Mac or PC, or burn a CD.
Stay Connected anytime anywhere.
http://itunes.stanford.edu/index.html

#1 SONG ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY
http://tinyurl.com/htk2s

UNSEEN. UNFORGOTTEN.
These Birmingham News photographs of the civil rights movement have not been seen by the public. Until now.
http://www.al.com/unseen/unseen.pdf

HISTORY

WORLD WAR II MILITARY SITUATION MAPS
Contains maps showing troop positions beginning on June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/maps/wwii/

STYLE AND STATUS
Caftans made the man in 16th- and 17th-century Turkey. Unlike the tight, rigid, European clothes of the time, the Ottomans wore layers of heavy robes that made the wearer seem bigger and more impressive.
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/styleandstatus/

HEALTH

MAYO CLINIC HEALTH OASIS
http://www.mayoclinic.com/

REUTERS HEALTH
http://www.reutershealth.com/en/index.html

WRITING/JOURNALISM

A DASH OF STYLE
Why did Poe and Melville rely on the semicolon? Why did Hemingway and Carver embrace the period? Filled with examples from literary masters, A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation is the first guide to punctuation for the readership that needs it the most: creative writers. In the tradition of Elements of Style, it can also be used by anyone hoping to write well. This book by Noah Lukeman to be published April 2006.
http://www.adashofstyle.com

WRITERS HOME
http://www.writershome.com/

THE ECLECTIC WRITER
http://www.eclectics.com/writing/writing.html

REPORTER.ORG
Reporter.org was conceived by Investigative Reporters and Editors as a way to provide a variety of resources to journalists, journalism educators, and the public at large via the Web.
http://www.reporter.org/