Food for Thought - February 2001
Note from Judy
Did you Know?
Keystroke Tips
Bonus Links
Dictionary of Units of Measurements
Hidden Forest
Perfectory
Copyright Bay
Recommendations
WINDOWS KEYSTROKES
Many people visit a site and want to stay, but they also want to click on some of the site links. Here's a fun way to open a Web page in a new window using Internet Explorer.
Hold down the Shift key in Internet Explorer when you left-click
on the link. The page will open in a new window automatically. Close it when you're through, and you're still at your favorite site-of-the-moment.
NOTE FROM JUDY
I've just renovated www.webgrammar.com to make it load faster and navigate better. I hope it meets your expectations.
Need your help: for over a year I've offered a free drawing for a Webster's dictionary. I've been surprised at the small number of people willing to enter. I finally decided to run a poll on the home page to determine why so many people aren't interested. If you have a moment, would you go to http://www.webgrammar.com and answer the brief poll?
DICTIONARY OF UNITS OF MEASUREMENT written by Russ Rowlett, Director, Center for Mathematics and Science Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html
PERFECTORY is an ever-evolving collection of art, literature, and music. Art galleries showcase original artwork, as well as technical art discussions and critical examinations of classical master artists. In addition, global and cultural diversity are presented through literary and music selections, which represent a wide variety of purposes and interests.
http://www.perfectory.com/
HIDDEN FOREST Have you ever been out in the forest (bush) or maybe even in your own backyard, and come across a strange fungus, lichen or maybe a slime mould, and wondered "what's that?" Hidden Forest is an attempt to photograph and name many of these strange things. Many of the photos have been taken around the Auckland region of New Zealand.
http://www.hiddenforest.co.nz/
COPYRIGHT BAY "Copyright." It's many things....To publishers, it's a means to ensure a return on the creative dollar. To librarians, it's a guarantee to provide information that "promotes the sciences and useful arts." To educators, it's a pain in the neck.
Unfortunately, copyright is a reality that educators must face in an era when digital technology makes it easy to steal intellectual property. And if research has it right, educators in general have a lot of ground to cover to become familiar with not only what copyright law restricts, but also what it allows in terms of that fuzzy little term, "fair use."
This web page represents the authors best attempt to explore "fair use" in the not-for-profit educational setting and present it in an informative and entertaining way. It's meant to be fun.
http://www.nmjc.cc.nm.us/copyrightbay/
DID YOU KNOW
SURE - SURELY
Sure is an adjective, while surely is an adverb. Sure means "positive, convinced," while surely means, "with confidence, without a doubt." You would say "I'm sure I saw that program on TV," and "He can surely count on us."
It's better to say, "I was surely (or very glad) to help," rather than "I was sure glad to help."
TACK - TACT
"Tack" is a nautical term that means to take a different direction. It could be a literal direction (north, west, left, or right), or could mean a change in attitude. You sometimes hear, "They took a different tack."
"Tact" means acting or speaking in a considerate way in order to avoid offending others.
With help from The Gregg Reference Manual, Ninth Edition, Sabin, ISBN0-02-804046-5
RECOMMENDATIONS
AKHLAH: JEWISH CHILDREN'S LEARNING NETWORK was created to provide Jewish children and their families access to the prayers, stories and rituals that have bound Jews together around the world and through the ages. Akhlah is specifically designed for the youngest and least knowledgeable, while maintaining scrupulous attention to the details of the subject matter.
http://www.akhlah.com/
BLACK HISTORY PacBell points to the best sites as models, to suggest ways to integrate the World Wide Web and videoconferencing into classroom learning. African-American History was chosen as a topic because of its importance, popularity and the wealth of Internet resources available on the topic.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html
COPYRIGHT TIPS AND ISSUES Before creating a school webpage, one should understand some basic copyright issues. What is fair use, the necessity of getting student permission to publish their work, and crediting other people's work can be found here.
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/online/copy.htm
DAILY GRAMMAR Daily e-mail lessons from an experienced, effective English teacher.
http://www.dailygrammar.com
EARLY AMERICAN PAINTINGS in the Worcester Art Museum includes biographies of twenty artists, detailed entries on fifty-three paintings, and checklist information on twenty-four additional works. Each of the seventy-seven works is illustrated. This catalogue encompasses all of the paintings in the museum's collection that were created prior to 1830 by artists who were either born or active in America, including works painted abroad by those artists.
http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/
FIND TUTORIALS FindTutorials.com is a Web index and search engine dedicated to bringing people the best of the Web's tutorials and online courses. FindTutorials.com allows searches for tutorials on practically any subject, ranging from photography to gardening to psychology.
FindTutorials.com guides people directly to written, certified tutorials carefully selected from all over the Web, and does not take them to unreliable and irrelevant Web sites, discussion forums, etc. It guarantees visitors will find all the free tutorials they'll ever need.
http://www.findtutorials.com/
GALLERY OF OBSCURE PATENTS
http://www.delphion.com/gallery
INVENTION DIMENSION Lemelson-MIT Program. The program's mission: to inspire a new generation of American scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs by celebrating, through awards and educational activities, living role models in these fields.
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/i/invent/
KIDS MYSTERIES From Mystery.net. TheCase.com for Kids features mysteries to solve, scary stories, magic tricks, and contests for kids. A new mini-mystery every week. TheCase.com Kids Club features a new mini-mystery via email every week.
http://www.thecase.com/kids/
LATE MATURED EARTH, poetry by Chang Chiao-Ling.
http://www.crosswinds.net/~clc/
NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF SCOTLAND is the main archive for sources of the history of Scotland as a separate kingdom, her role in the British isles and the links between Scotland and many other countries over the centuries. The NAS holds records spanning the 12th to the 21st centuries, touching on virtually every aspect of Scottish life.
http://www.nas.gov.uk/
ONLINE TYPING TEST
http://www.typingmaster.com/java/ttapplet.htm
PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
PSEUDODICTIONARY, the place where made up words, slang, webspeak and colloquialisms become part of the dictionary.
http://www.pseudodictionary.com/
TONGUE TWISTERS, in 77 languages.
http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/index.htm
WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY This site is devoted to William Morris (1834-96), British craftsman, designer, writer, typographer, and Socialist.
http://www.morrissociety.org/
Judy's Sites or Site Affiliations:
Moderator for AudetteMedia's I-CRM List
The I-CRM Discussion List has an audacious goal: to enthusiastically explore ways in which to
delight customers and implement customer-related strategies.
http://www.audettemedia.com
Basic Business Grammar. Judy is a WZ-ard for wz.com - helping busy people find good grammar resources. Please visit and rate the resources. I also have a 45-Second weekly e-zine and welcome your recommendations for good links.
http://wz.com/business/w/BasicBusinessGrammar.html
Hawaiian Food and Cuisine. Judy is a WZ-ard for this section of wz.com - helping busy people find delicious Hawaiian recipes.
http://wz.com/food/w/HawaiianFoodCuisine.html
Judy Vorfeld's Office Support Services
http://www.ossweb.com
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