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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
CONTAGION: HISTORICAL VIEWS OF DISEASE
AND EPIDEMICS
Harvard’s new "open collection" contributes to the understanding of
the global, social–history, and public–policy implications of
diseases and offers important historical perspectives on the science
and the public policy of epidemiology today.
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/
DIGITAL DUTCH UNIT CONVERTER
http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/
LEARN GENETICS
The Genetic Science Learning Center is an outreach education program
located in the midst of bioscience research at the University of Utah.
Our mission is to help people understand how genetics affects their
lives and society. To achieve this mission, we present education
offerings for various audiences.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/
OPEN SCIENCE DIRECTORY
Access to scientific literature is very important for the scientific
work in developing countries. As a result of different projects a
large collection of e-journals is now available for researchers
in
developing countries.
Major UNO organizations like WHO, FAO and UNEP
hav
their specific programs for the scientific institutions in low-income countries. Finally a lot of universities, institutes and
other
organizations are supporting access programs.
All
these programs and
projects have their own website and/or search engine.
The Open Science
Directory IOC/IODE is creating a
unique access point to all the
journals contained in
the different programs.
http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/
VOICETHREAD
An online, interactive album that can hold various types of media
(images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in
five different ways: voice (microphone or telephone), text, audio file,
or video (webcam).
A VoiceThread allows group conversations, digital
stories, oral histories, commentary, etc. to be collected and instantly
shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.
You can embed them
into webpages, moderate comments,
and more.
All VoiceThread and many
Ed.VoiceThread pages are completely accessible to anyone.
http://voicethread.com/
HISTORY
HARPER'S BAZAR
Harper's Bazar was an American weekly women's fashion magazine that
began publication in 1867 in the large newspaper format design of
Harper's Weekly.
Harper’s Bazar, based in New York, was intended
for the women of the middle and upper socio-economic classes of the
second half of the 19th century, and provided fashions from Paris
and the German fashion newspaper, Bazar.
http://harpersbazaar.victorian-ebooks.com/index.html
HISTORICAL DIRECTORIES
Digital library of local and trade directories for England and
Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions
of comparatively rare books, essential tools for research into
local and genealogical history.
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/
THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE
A Colloquy In Westminster Abbey by Washington Irving (1783–1859)
http://www.bartleby.com/109/6.html
PLAYMATE: ORIGIN OF CHILDREN'S SONG
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=62899
RANDOM ACTS OF GENEALOGICAL KINDNESS
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) was established in
1999 as a resource for networking among researchers. RAOGK links
researchers who need documents from a distant location with others
able to obtain them.
http://www.raogk.org
SURVEY LA
Los Angeles' first-ever comprehensive program to identify significant
historic resources throughout our city.
The survey marks a coming-of-age
for Los Angeles' historic preservation movement, and will serve as a
centerpiece for the city’s first truly comprehensive preservation program.
http://preservation.lacity.org/survey
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ARTS
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture.
Since its inception in the late 1970s, hip hop has become hugely influential in America. While images of hip hop performers are
as pervasive in our culture as the music itself, some visual artists have created powerful images that both celebrate and
explore the complexity of this creative form.
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/recognize/index.html
PERFORMING ARTS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/
WRITING/JOURNALISM
EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE FIRST LANGUAGE BY KATHIE SNOW
http://ftp.disabilityisnatural.com/documents/PFLChart.pdf
TO CAPITALIZE OR NOT TO CAPITALIZE—HOW DO YOU SPELL "INTERNET”?
Government Computer News
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/26963-1.html
WHAT IS GOOD JOURNALISM?
http://press.umsystem.edu/spring2007/kennedy.moen.htm
REFERENCES
THE ALDO LEOPOLD ARCHIVES
Aldo Leopold is considered by many to have been the most influential
conservation thinker of the 20th Century.
Leopold's legacy spans the
disciplines of forestry, wildlife management, conservation biology,
sustainable agriculture, restoration ecology, private land management,
environmental history, literature, education, esthetics, and ethics.
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/AldoLeopold/
BOOK_ARTS-L
A mailing list based at Syracuse University, and managed by Peter
Verheyen.
It currently claims over 1500 subscribers worldwide, among
them practicing bookbinders, book-artists, marblers, papermakers,
printers, collectors, curators in libraries, and people just interested
in our wide and varied field.
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/bookarts/
BUG GUIDE
Online community of naturalists who enjoy learning about and sharing
our observations of insects, spiders, and other related creatures. We
enjoy the opportunity to instill in others the fascination and
appreciation that we share for the intricate lives of these oft-maligned
creatures.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740
HARDINESS ZONES
The Arbor Day Foundation has recently completed an extensive updating
of U.S. Hardiness Zones based upon data from 5,000 National Climatic
Data Center cooperative stations across the continental United States.
http://www.arborday.org/media/zones.cfm
KEY FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT EUROPE AND
THE EUROPEANS
http://europa.eu/abc/keyfigures/index_en.htm
PEAK WALKING
The original online guide to walking in England's Peak District.
http://www.peakwalking.co.uk/
TASTE OF SCOTLAND
Intended as an aid for finding the best eating places in Scotland. A
directory of selected restaurants, tearooms and other eating places
which we believe offer a true 'taste of Scotland' via
their menus.
http://www.taste-of-scotland.com/
USING THE MEDIA TO PROMOTE ADOLESCENT WELL-BEING
Princeton-Brookings: Elisabeth Hirschhorn Donahue, Ron Haskins, and
Marisa Nightingale.
This brief advocates fighting fire with fire by
creative use of media to provide youth with positive messages that
counteract the negative and potentially damaging messages to which
they are so frequently exposed.
http://tinyurl.com/5gchk2
WOLFNER LIBRARY
The Wolfner Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
is a free
library service to anyone in the State of Missouri who
is unable to use
standard print materials due to a visual or physical disability.
The
library collection consists of more than 360,000 volumes of books in
non-print formats (braille and cassette) on a broad range of fiction
and non-fiction subjects, for all ages.
The library loans playback
machines to those using the recorded materials. Over seventy (70)
magazine subscriptions are
also available.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/wolfner
HEALTH
HAPPY COW
HappyCow's vegetarian restaurants guide is a global, searchable
vegetarian dining guide and directory of natural health food stores,
including nutrition & health tips,
vegan recipes, raw foods, travel,
veganism and other
vegetarian issues.
http://www.happycow.net/
INTRODUCTION TO CHEST IMAGING
http://tinyurl.com/6pkr24
TALKING ABOUT DISABILITY
A Guide to Using Appropriate Language
http://www.traponline.com/language.htm
EDUCATION
AT&T 2008 BIG MOBILE ON CAMPUS CHALLENGE
Attention all full time U.S. college students and staff! Take the
challenge and enter to win a $10,000 scholarship (among other great
prizes).
This contest is for full-time students interested in
developing creative and innovative social networking, academic, and
safety and security mobile applications. Staff: work with students
to create a mobile application that will stand up to the 2008 Big
Mobile on Campus Challenge!
Winners will be announced October 1, 2008.
http://higheredcontest.wireless.att.com/main/default.aspx
MIT OPENCOURSEWARE
A free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all
the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
ROY THE ZEBRA
The site is home to a package of interactive games, stories and
resources that have been developed to help emerging readers learn
to read.
http://www.roythezebra.com/
SPELLING CITY
Makes practicing for spelling tests fun.
http://www.spellingcity.com
WORLDWIDE SCHOOL LIBRARY
This site is dedicated to the collection, preservation and presentation
of educational material.
For whatever reason, many people may find it
difficult to broaden their education by traditional means; attending
high school or college can seem like an impossible dream. That is why
we are offering an education via the Web.
http://tinyurl.com/7x63r
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