In this issue:

• Note from Judy
• Windows Keystroke & Tips - Help
• Did you Know - It is whether or whether or not?
• Recommendations
  • Arts
  • Education
  • Grammar
  • Health
  • History
  • References
  • Science/Technology
  • Writing/Journalism
  • Judy's Photo Gallery
  
  

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  NOTE FROM JUDY

  1. Time to wrap up our 2006 experiences and anticipate what 2007 has to offer. What have you enjoyed most about this year? For me, it's been exploring the fragile and often fragrant beauty of plants and blossoms. And creatures, come to think of it. Strangely enough, my delight in photography and editing it energizes me to work more diligently at my business and in running my household. As I open my senses to the world around me, my creativity unleashes. And so does my enthusiasm for everything in life. How about you?

  2. Meet two of my newest clients: Arizona BPW Foundation and Reliable Enterprises. Both are nonprofit organizations (501c3) and offer powerful support: the foundation awards scholarships to Arizona women 20 years or older who are returning to school to acquire better job opportunities, and Reliable Enterprises educates, encourages, and cares for developmentally and economically disadvantaged citizens of Lewis County, Washington. (I lived in Lewis County for 10 years and have many good friends in the area.) I thoroughly enjoyed developing the websites for these two dynamic organizations. Here are the links to their websites:

     Arizona BPW Foundation: http://www.arizonabpwfoundation.com
     Reliable Enterprises:
     http://www.reliableenterprises.org

     You are one of my blessings. I write this ezine just for you. I hope and pray that you have a meaningful 2007. Thanks for being a valued subscriber!

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  WINDOWS KEYSTROKES & TIPS - Help

  Whenever you are in a software program and need help, press the F1 key.
  A box will pop up with help for that software. You can accomplish the
  same thing by clicking on the program's Help link in the menu line,
  but it may be that a keystroke is quicker and easier.

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  DID YOU KNOW - It is whether or whether or not?

  These days, we generally use "whether" alone, says CMS. The "or not" is
  only necessary when you mean to convey the idea of "regardless of whether."
  Its example: We'll finish on time whether or not it rains. Sometimes,
  "whether" is replaced by "if" in informal usage. Its example: We didn't
  know if we would finish. In the more formal world, use "whether."

  Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition

ARTS

JOURNAL OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC
http://sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu/jscm/

FORTY YEARS OF FILM IN NEW YORK CITY
http://tinyurl.com/yz8md2

BUILDING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
http://tinyurl.com/yk4322

SMITHSONIAN PHOTOGRAPHY INITIATIVE
http://www.photography.si.edu/

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 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

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

ANATOMY ATLASES
A digital library of anatomy information
http://anatomyatlases.org/

MIT OPENCOURSEWARE: ANTHROPOLOGY
The Anthropology Program at MIT offers students (and educators) a broad exposure to the discipline as well as an anthropological perspective on problems and issues relevant to other fields in the humanities, social sciences, and engineering.
It also provides more intensive introduction to areas of faculty specialization, which include social and political organization, economics and human ecology, religion and symbolism,
and the anthropology of medicine and scientific research. Geographical specializations include cultures of Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Anthropology/index.htm

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT HISTORY CENTER
http://www.pahx.org/index.htm

INTERACTIVE BIONICS TOUR
http://blog.wired.com/images/bionicanimation.html

HEALTH

TEACHING AND TRAINING MODULES ON TRENDS IN HEALTH AND AGING
http://www.asaging.org/NCHS/

THE WORLD'S HEALTHIEST FOOD
http://www.whfoods.com/foodstoc.php

MEMORY AND AGING CENTER
http://memory.ucsf.edu/Education/general.html

NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION: SPORTS
& HEALTH NETWORK
http://www.nrpa.org/newsletter/templateViewer.aspx?templateId=3

WRITING/JOURNALISM

COMMITTEE OF CONCERNED JOURNALISTS
http://www.concernedjournalists.org/

LITERATURE MAP
Find authors with similar writing styles. And more. Excellent site.
Works like Visual Thesaurus, but it's online.
http://www.literature-map.com/

BOBs: BEST OF THE BLOGS - INTERNATIONAL WEBLOG AWARDS
http://tinyurl.com/yakl9r

EDUCATION

AMERICAN ACCENT-ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION VIDEO TRAINING
DESCRIPTION: A unique English Pronunciation-Accent Reduction Video Training Program via DVD or on-line. All instruction is by Speech Language Pathologist. Free American accent tips and free idiom book are available.
http://www.pronunciationworkshop.com

SHAKESONGS
http://www.shakesongs.com/main.php

ESL CYBER LISTENING LAB
http://www.esl-lab.com/

USGA: COURSE CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION
http://tinyurl.com/yb3v55

EDUCATION BUG
Articles, resources, and an education directory. Article topics are broken down into category by Type of School, Age of Student, or Role of Person and include such topics as: Financial Aid, Creating a Homeschool, School Counselors and Students with Special Needs, Garnering a Grant, and more.
www.EducationBug.org

FRENCH IN ACTION
http://www.learner.org/resources/series83.html

THE NEW ORLEANS KID CAMERA PROJECT
Created to address the psychological and emotional impacts of Hurricane Katrina on children returning home to New Orleans. Through the use of photography, creative writing and mixed media, children from flooded neighborhoods explore
their environment and express themselves, their stories and feelings with their friends. This project provides a venue for growth and recovery.
http://www.kidcameraproject.org/

OPEN LEARNING INITIATIVE AT CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
A collection of "cognitively informed," openly available and free online courses and course materials that enact instruction for an entire course in an online format.
http://www.cmu.edu/oli/index.html

THE BIOGRAPHY MAKER
It's like those homework machines we have been hearing about for many years. It is designed to help you convert facts into insights, dull and boring information into fascination and magic. It will help you do a good job, but you must provide some of the "steam" to make it work well.
http://www.fno.org/bio/biomak2.htm

REFERENCES

CHARITY NAVIGATOR
http://www.charitynavigator.org/

NEAT NEW STUFF: MARYLAINE BLOCK'S AMAZING EZINE
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html

BOB HOPE'S JOKE FILE
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bobhope/jokes.html

GERMAN DATABASE FOR MUSIC
http://www.mgg-online.com/german/D_index.htm

TEN REASONS LIBRARIANS SHOULD USE ASK.COM INSTEAD OF GOOGLE
http://tinyurl.com/oxr5v

PANDORA INTERNET RADIO
Explore to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go.
It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice.
http://www.pandora.com

NATIONMASTER
A massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations.
NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER
http://www.dtic.mil/

VISUAL THESAURUS
Part thesaurus, part dictionary and shows a relational map of words. The free trial search is good for brainstorming, writing and exploring the English language.
http://www.visualthesaurus.com

WATERMELON SPECIAL FRUITCARVING
http://takashi64.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

WAYBACK MACHINE
A great shortcut to view a website through the lens of history, and especially useful for resurrecting dead pages.
http://web.archive.org

MOUSE ATLAS PROJECT
http://www.loni.ucla.edu/MAP/

WORDCOUNT
Presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance.
http://www.wordcount.org/

HISTORY

PANAMAIR.ORG
http://www.panamair.org/

AMERICAN INDIANS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/

MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART
http://monet.unk.edu/mona/