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Food for Thought - March 2002

Note from Judy - New Printed Web Style Guide
Windows Keystroke & Tips - Opening Favorites Window
Complimentary Endorsement - Project Liberty
Did you Know - Capitalizing Proper Nouns
Recommendations

NOTE FROM JUDY

People constantly write me asking for the accepted way to write things like "web," "Internet," and "Web site." Until now, I usually relied on netlingo.com and webopedia.com. I recently bought "The Web Content Style Guide," by McGovern, Norton, and O'Dowd. The book talks briefly about writing and designing for the Web, then begins its best offering: An A to Z of Web Content Style. It's a comprehensive glossary that addresses some of the issues I mentioned above. For this alone, it's well worth the money.

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WINDOWS KEYSTROKES AND TIPS

Opening Favorites Window

To open your Favorites section, use Ctrl+I. When you're through with the Favorites, press Ctrl+I again and the section disappears.

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-- COMPLIMENTARY ENDORSEMENT --

PROJECT LIBERTY
Project Liberty provides free counseling services to anyone affected by the terrorist attacks of September 11 in the metropolitan New York City region.
http://www.projectliberty.state.ny.us/

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DID YOU KNOW?

Capitalizing Proper Nouns

Q. What's the procedure for capitalizing this phrase:
1. The three Bellingham High Schools.
2. The three Bellingham high schools.

A. If you aren't speaking of a specific school with a specific title, you lower case "high schools," as you did in the second example. Source: The Gregg Reference Manual, Ninth Edition, by William Sabin

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RECOMMENDATIONS

EDUCATION

BRISTOL BIOMEDICAL IMAGE ARCHIVE
A collection of about 8500 medical, dental and veterinary images for use in teaching. Some are free if used for educational purposes.
http://www.brisbio.ac.uk/

FUN MATHMATICS LESSONS
Created by Cynthia Lanius
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/

K-6 ARTS LESSON PLANS
Includes Dance, Drama/Theatre, Music, and Visual Art lessons. Lessons are aligned with California's Visual & Performing Arts Framework and the National Standards for Arts Education. Selected lessons are added to the database every semester. By Dept. of Education, CSU, Chico, CA.
http://www.csuchico.edu/educ/cguenter/229Barts.html

HUMANITIES INTERACTIVE
A project of the Texas Council for the Humanities, it has interactive exhibits, games, lesson ideas, and more. Categories include Border Studies, The New World, Texas History, Texas Culture, Understanding Other Cultures, Literature & Our Imaginative Heritage, Ancient World Cultures, and The Medieval World.
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/

SEEING STUDENT ASSESSMENT IN A BRAND NEW LIGHT
Designed by FAST.
http://www.getfast.ca/index.html

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GRAMMAR

DAILY GRAMMAR
A great way to check grammar knowledge. Use the archives or sign up twice a year for daily e-mail lessons. Quizzes take four minutes
http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html

PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
Outstanding to use as a quick reference for your grammar questions.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

THE BASIC COZY GRAMMAR COURSE
Digitally shot on location on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Conceived as a living textbook, the video uses colorful graphics to help clarify definitions, demonstrations and examples.
http://www.splashesfromtheriver.com

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HEALTH

NURSING HOME COMPARE
Detailed information about the performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the U.S.
http://www.medicare.gov/nhcompare/home.asp

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HISTORY

AMERICAN FOLKLORE
Contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each of the 50 states.
http://www.americanfolklore.net/

CONGO EXPEDITION
American Museum of Natural History presents The American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915).
http://diglib1.amnh.org/

THE HURRICANE OF '38
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hurricane38/index.html

PALACES OF THE KING
The luxurious world of the kings of Siam.
http://www.palaces.thai.net/

RENAISSANCE SECRETS
http://www.open2.net/renaissance2/doing/doing.html

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SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

OCEAN
Provides "ocean people" from around the world a comprehensive and centralized source of ocean news, entertainment, and commerce.
http://www.ocean.com/

THE PHYSICS ZONE
Designed to be a resource for learning introductory level, algebra based, physics.
http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/

THE SECRET LIFE OF NUMBERS
The authors conducted an exhaustive empirical study in order to determine the relative popularity of every integer between 0 and one million.
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/nums/index.html

SILICON ZOO
Researchers put computer chips under the microscope we found some very interesting creatures hiding there. What it found led to a new collection of photomicrographs (photographs taken through a microscope) featuring many of the silicon creatures and other doodling scribbled onto integrated circuits by engineers when they were designing computer chip masks.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/

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JUDY'S SITES, FORUMS, AND E-ZINES:

Judy Vorfeld's Small Business E-zine, Communication Expressway, designed to help people improve office, technology, presentation, and writing skills.
http://www.ossweb.com/ezine.html

Moderator for Adventive.com's I-CUSTOMER List The I-CUSTOMERS Discussion List enthusiastically explore ways to delight customers and implement customer-related strategies.
http://www.adventive.com/lists/icrm/summary.html

Basic Business Grammar. Judy helps busy people find good grammar resources. Brief bi-weekly e-zine.
http://wz.com/business/BasicBusinessGrammar.html

Hawaiian Food and Cuisine. Judy helps busy people find delicious Hawaiian recipes. Brief monthly e-zine.
http://wz.com/food/HawaiianFoodCuisine.html

Webgrammar - for students, educators, editors, writers, librarians, researchers, lovers of the English language, and Web developers.
http://www.webgrammar.com

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