In this issue:

• Note from Judy
• Grammar, Usage, and Style - Crowdsourcing
• Recommendations
  • Arts
  • Education
  • Grammar
  • Health
  • History
  • References
  • Science/Technology
  • Writing/Journalism
  • Judy's Photo Gallery
  
  

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NOTE FROM JUDY

1. Late last year I was introduced to Dr. Clair Hinckley, and she has since become
   part of my local think tank tribe. We meet monthly to toss around ideas about small
   businesses, both for profit and nonprofit, and marketing and presentation related
   to such businesses. We've been known to mentor a few people who needed a nudge in
   the right direction.
   
   Dr. Clair currently focuses on SAT and TBI. What do they have in common? The brain.
   And she's one savvy woman where cognitive skills are concerned. Right now she's
   saturated with her A-Z Sat WordPower System, offering her programs to Greater Phoenix
   schools http://www.a-zsat.com/index.html. Later she will be working on her Brain
   Recovery Support System http://brainrecoverysupport.com/. She's full of wonderful
   ideas! What a delight to be a part of her support team as she builds her programs
   so that many more people can be helped.

2. You may have notice a gap in publication of Food for Thought. I'm going to
   publish on a quarterly basis. It gives me more time to discover websites that will
   help you in this time of information overload.

GRAMMAR, USAGE and STYLE - Crowdsourcing

Definition of CROWDSOURCING
"... the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees
or suppliers.

Origin of CROWDSOURCING
2crowd + outsourcing
First Known Use: 2006"

By permission. From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary at
www.m-w.com by Merriam-Webster, Incorporated

Crowdsourcing, says Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing) is the
act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor,
to an undefined, large group of people or community (crowd), through an open call.

Jeff Howe, one of first authors to employ the term, established that the concept
of crowdsourcing depends essentially on the fact that because it is an open call to
an undefined group of people, it gathers those who are most fit to perform tasks,
solve complex problems and contribute with the most relevant and fresh ideas.

EDUCATION

A GUIDE FOR BRINGING KNITTING AND SPINNING INTO
ELEMENTARY THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOMS
By Cat Bordhi. Brilliant, with amazing resources for educators.
http://www.catbordhi.com/documents/KnittinginSchools.pdf

BBC WORLD: LEARNING ENGLISH
National Symbols of China
http://tinyurl.com/4cpurl5

BEST EDUCATIONAL WIKIS OF 2010
http://tinyurl.com/4z8z2uw

EDUTOPIA: SCHOOLS THAT WORK
http://www.edutopia.org/schools-that-work

ENGLISH-SPEAKING BLOG BY ANTHEA SAPON
Nice approach. Kudos, Anthea!
http://www.englishspeaking.org

MOBILIZING MINDS: TEACHING MATH AND SCIENCE
IN THE AGE OF SPUTNIK
http://tinyurl.com/2tfrxw

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

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/

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
Beginning teachers can find guidance; experienced teachers can find inspiration.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/

ARTS

CAPTURED: AMERICA IN COLOR FROM 1939-1943
These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations.

The photographs and captions are the property of the Library of Congress
and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
http://tinyurl.com/347yrn9

MARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART
http://www.maryhillmuseum.org/exhibits.html

MINIMALIST PHOTOGRAPHY 101
http://minimalistphotography101.com/

MY FIVE FAVORITE PHOTO INFORMATION BLOGS/WEBSITES
– MINI REVIEW
By Scott Bourne
http://tinyurl.com/6dtxuaw

NOPPANAN ARUNVONGSE PHOTOGRAPHY
http://www.noppanan.com/

SCIENCE

ACCESSIBLE WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY
http://www.youtube.com/user/WIrelessRERC

MARINE BIO
http://marinebio.org/

MIT OPENCOURSEWARE:
INTRODUCTION TO SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY
http://tinyurl.com/5t5hjwy

REHABILITATION ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER
FOR WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES
http://www.wirelessrerc.org/

SCIENCE360: CHEMISTRY
http://science360.gov/topic/Chemistry/

HEALTH

BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH FOR CHILDREN
http://www.birthdefects.org/

CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/

OUCH!
a BBC website aimed at those with a stakehold in disability: family,
friends, professionals and, rather importantly, disabled people
themselves, without whom all this would be a bit meaningless.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/

THE FOOD MUSEUM
http://www.foodmuseum.com/

THE FOOD PROJECT
http://thefoodproject.org

HISTORY

DAVID RUMSEY HISTORICAL MAPS COLLECTION: FEATURED MAPS
http://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/categories/featured-maps

LIVING ROOT BRIDGES OF INDIA
http://atlasobscura.com/place/root-bridges-cherrapungee

NOT EVEN PAST
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner
http://www.notevenpast.org/

ORIGINAL CIVIL WAR PICTURES
http://tinyurl.com/29khln

THE VINE BRIDGES OF IYA VALLEY
http://atlasobscura.com/place/vine-bridges-japan

REFERENCES

COLOR SCHEME DESIGNER
http://colorschemedesigner.com/

COLOR SCHEMER ONLINE
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html

DICTIONARY OF ART HISTORIANS
http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/

GRANTCRAFT
Guides explore challenges grantmakers face daily, whether they are new
to grantmaking, sharpening their practice, or leading within their
foundations, fields, or communities.
http://www.grantcraft.org/

INTERNET AUDIO ARCHIVE
Welcome to the Archive's audio and MP3 library. This library contains
over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from
alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time
Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music
uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.
http://www.archive.org/details/audio

KUHLER COLOR THEMES
http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/rating?time=30

NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE FOR THE BLIND AND
PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS administers
a free library program of braille and audio materials circulated to
eligible borrowers in the United States by postage-free mail.
http://www.loc.gov/nls/

NISO STANDARDS
Presents guidelines and conventions for the contents, display,
construction, testing, maintenance, and management of monolingual
controlled vocabularies. It focuses on controlled vocabularies
that are used for the representation of content objects in
knowledge organization systems including lists, synonym rings,
taxonomies, and thesauri.
http://tinyurl.com/aaxfr6

PRINT FRIENDLY
Want to print just the text on a page, and not the ads or graphics? Print
Friendly causes the system to generate a printable page or a PDF for purposes of sharing a physical set of pages.
http://www.printfriendly.com/

SENSATIONAL COLOR
Color advice/insight from experts: color classes, color for your home,
messages and meanings, color resources, blog, looking sensational, color theory, and color for business.
http://tinyurl.com/2aubgse

SOCIETY FOR THE PHYSICALLY DISABLED - SINGAPORE
http://www.spd.org.sg/

THE STUTTERING FOUNDATION
http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=839

WRITING/JOURNALISM

7 TECHNIQUES TO HELP JOURNALISTS GET IT RIGHT
http://tinyurl.com/6hf9vhp

2010 A YEAR FOR PLAYING GAMES WITH WORDS
By Robert Beard
http://tinyurl.com/37hnlw8

KNOWLEDGE BASE EDITOR'S DIGEST
This Digest consists of articles and abstracts from the Montague Institute Review and content from other publications and Web sites.
http://www.montague.com/Digest/digest.htm

THE OCCASIONAL PAMPHLET
Chicago Manual of Style on Open Access
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/

TOP 25 GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE MISTAKES
http://www.ragan.com/Main/Articles/42513.aspx

WHY THE WASHINGTON POST USED FACEBOOK UPDATES
TO TELL A MOTHER’S STORY
http://tinyurl.com/29anltp

THE WRITE WORD EASY EDITING AND SPIFFY STYLE GUIDE
Just published by word wiz Tom Bentley.

Whether you're a copywriter who can't afford to hire an editor, an in-house copyeditor honing your chops, or someone who wants to add fresh air to their writing efforts—while ensuring that no sentences have flat tires—The Write Word's Easy Editing and Spiffy Style Guide is for you. And at less
than ten bucks, it's a steal.
http://www.tombentley.com/easy-editing-spiffy-style-guide.html

WRITING WORLD: MOIRA ALLEN
http://www.writing-world.com/index.shtml