In this issue:

• Note from Judy
• Windows Keystroke & Tips - Refresh your Web browser
• Did you Know - Can we speak e.g. and i.e., or just write them?
• Recommendations
  • Arts
  • Education
  • Grammar
  • Health
  • History
  • References
  • Science/Technology
  • Writing/Journalism
  • Judy's Photo Gallery

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  NOTE FROM JUDY

  1. Do I have a terrific question for you! I'll pop it in the "Did you Know" section. If anyone knows the answer, please let me know.

  2. STOP WRIST PAIN: Hal Alpiar, of www.businessworks.us, sent me a
     SAFE-ZONE wrist support when he learned I'd had surgery on my right
     hand because of trigger finger. My left hand was beginning to give
     me problems: tingling and numbness in the fingers.

     I used the wrist support for about a week, and the problems receded.
     I was so engrossed with my right hand that I didn't wear it as long
     as I should have. Yet it worked.

     I found it easy to wear during the day, even while typing. I was
     prepared to wear it at night, but it wasn't necessary. Why was I
     prepared? Because while my hand surgery was successful, I was in
     a great deal of pain during recovery and physical therapy.

     And this just in from my brother, David, who mentioned last week that
     he was having severe pain in his right hand and wrist not just when
     using the computer, but all the time. I loaned him my SAFE-ZONE support,
     and he wore it all day. Every day. Within a week, he was pain free. And
     he can't lie: he's a pastor!

     If you're at the point of not yet going to the doctor, but are thinking of
     heading to the drugstore to buy a wrist support, may I recommend that you
     visit http://www.stopwristpain.com/. SAFE-ZONE exceeds the kind of
     supports I've bought through the years at my local drugstore. This is NOT
     a paid commercial! I was willing to try this support because I trust and
     respect Hal Alpiar.

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  WINDOWS KEYSTROKES & TIPS - Refresh your Web browser

  Use F5 to refresh/reload your Web browser.

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  DID YOU KNOW - Can we speak e.g. and i.e., or just write them?

  Here's a question from a Webgrammar visitor: "I have
  an ongoing argument with a good friend who's a radio announcer who
  constantly uses i.e. and e.g. on the air. I always thought that i.e.
  and e.g. were used ONLY on the written page and if you are speaking
  you say "that is" or "for example" Please help to resolve this argument."

ARTS

ARTOPIA
http://cfmedia.scetv.org/artopia/

HOKUSAI: MAD ABOUT PAINTING
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/Hokusai.htm

THE MIND OF LEONARDO: THE UNIVERSAL GENIUS AT WORK
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/menteleonardo/

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/

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

AUSTRALIAN BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES STUDY
Program within Parks Australia Division of the Department of the
Environment and Heritage. ABRS strives to answer three questions:
What plants, animals and other organisms occur in Australia?
Where are they found?
How can we provide that information to our website visitors?
http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/#activities

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH:
OFFICE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
OSE coordinates science education activities at the NIH and develops and sponsors science education projects in house. These programs serve elementary, secondary, and college students and teachers and the public.
http://science-education.nih.gov/

VETERINARY ANATOMY INSTRUCTION
http://vanat.cvm.umn.edu/WebSites.html

VIRTUAL AERONAUTICS
http://virtualskies.arc.nasa.gov/aeronautics/tutorial/intro.html

HEALTH

GUIDE TO A HEALTHY HEART
http://www.invisionguide.com/heart/

MEDLINEPLUS: DENTAL HEALTH
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/dentalhealth.html

EDUCATION

THE READING MATRIX
Its goal is to offer a forum for the exploration and discussion of the study and teaching of reading in both traditional academic and hypertextual environments like the World-Wide Web.

The Reading Matrix is a site consisting of computer mediated and online materials designed specifically to meet the language needs of the ESL/international student population as well as English-speaking students enrolled in colleges and universities.
http://www.readingmatrix.com/

REGENTS EXAM PREP CENTER
The goal of this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies.
http://regentsprep.org/

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE UNIVERSITY
http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/

JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL TEACHER EDUCATION
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JITE/

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
A centre for information on the mobility of researchers, teachers,
and students. Collects and analyzes a detailed documentation to diffuse information and to stimulate research on the essential aspects of the work and the structures of higher education establishments in Europe.
http://www.cepes.ro/

REFERENCES

LAW LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
The mission of the Law Library of Congress is to provide research and legal information to the U.S. Congress as well as to U.S. Federal Courts and Executive Agencies, and to offer reference services to the public.
http://www.loc.gov/law/public/law.html

VIRTUAL LEARNING RESOURCES
Mission: to index thousands of the best academic information websites, selected by teachers and library professionals worldwide, in order to provide to students and teachers current, valid information for school and university academic projects.
Dr. Michael Bell.
http://virtuallrc.com/index.shtml

KANJI NETWORKS
Online etymological dictionary of Chinese characters as used in
Japan. The etymologies in this site are written to account for the
phonosemantic origins of Chinese characters, and for the principal meanings the characters bear in modern Japanese. Lawrence J. Howell and Hikaru Morimoto.
http://www.kanjinetworks.com/

WEBCAST.BERKELEY
Discover an archive of course webcasts and podcasts and visit the archived webcasts that feature prominent speakers who've visited the campus. The course section lets visitors view webcasts. They can also download podcasts.
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/

CHARTS ALL OVER THE WORLD
HitSearch: search through more than 1000 Web pages around the world with updated music charts! Just enter name of artist and/or title to find out where it is charted.
http://www.lanet.lv/misc/charts/

HISTORY

GULAG: MANY DAYS, MANY LIVES
http://www.gulaghistory.org/

TENNESSEE DOCUMENTARY HISTORY, 1796-1850
An online database of documents and images relating to antebellum Tennessee.

While the primary audience of this project is K-12 teachers of Tennessee history, academic scholars and general researchers will also find this database useful.
http://diglib.lib.utk.edu/dlc/tdh/index.html

RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/

THE VIRTUAL GRAMOPHONE
Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/gramophone/index-e.html

INVINCIBLE CITIES
http://invinciblecities.camden.rutgers.edu/intro.html

VIRTUAL VAUDEVILLE
http://www.virtualvaudeville.com/

WRITING/JOURNALISM

EXCERPTS FROM ON WRITING WELL
http://www.cla.wayne.edu/polisci/kdk/general/sources/zinsser.htm

HOW TO WRITE
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/howtowrite/index.shtml

HOW TO WRITE A HOW-TO
http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/howto/howto-howto.html

WRITER'S ALERTS AND WARNINGS
http://www.fictionfactor.com/scam.html

26 GOLDEN RULES FOR WRITING WELL
http://www.mantex.co.uk/samples/rules.htm