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One Teachers view of some of the Best Resources for teaching English available for teachers and students on the Web

About me

I am within three years of my retirement, and as I look back over my work history, I take pride in the number of divesified careers I have enjoyed. I enjoyed the humor of the following as it sums up some of my thoughts towards work and where it can take us.

• My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got canned ... couldn't concentrate.
• Then I worked in the woods as a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the ax.
• After that I tried to be a tailor, but I just wasn't suited for it.
• Then I decided to become a Travel Agent, but I found the work too foreign.
• Next I tried working in a muffler factory but that was exhausting.
• I tried working as a retail store manager but I was always losing the inventory.
• Next was a job in a shoe factory; I tried but I just didn't fit in.
• I became a professional fisherman, but discovered that I couldn't live on my net income.
• I tried becoming a consultant but no-one would listen to me.
• I managed to get a good job working for a pool maintenance company, but the work was just too draining.
• I tried politics once, but since I could only be truthful, my downfall was inevitable, and I didn't last long.
• So then I got a job in a gymnasium, but they said I wasn't fit for the job.
• I got a job as a historian until I realized there was no future in it.
• Just for the html of IT, I tried web design but I kept forgetting my (java) script .
• I finally landed a job as a teacher but they said I had no class.
• So I am now considering retiring, because I think I would be perfect for that job!

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Visit my on-line stores	The Teachers Store a collection of products that I think will help teachers in the classroom.            The Arm Chair Traveller. A book store for the traveller, read and learn before you go!
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Your ideas and suggestions are important to us. Let us know if you have a favorite site that you would like to see on this site. page, you can email me and I will look at it. However if you visit my Free For All Education and Travel Page!   you can add pages yourself You can chat to others and let them know your views on Travel and Education (site ideas, general comments etc, can be added here) by  Visiting My Message Board! You can also give me your links, ideas and thoughts by sending me an Email. EnglishTeacherscans the web for sites that have significance for Language Arts Teachers. EnglishTeacher seeks out relevant sites and reviews them for you. EnglishTeacher is published twice each month as an email document in HTML format. Teen Writers provides a place for young writers to publish their works online and read what other teens have written. Young Writer's Resource - Inkspot provides a great list of sites specifically for young writers as well as a forum and useful information on paying and non-paying markets. Feed Magazine is highbrow, thought-provoking reading. Created by Steven Johnson, Feed offers daily editorials, weekly features, and engaging discussion boards. A mix of politics, culture, and technology, Feed succeeds because it strips away the pretense and the download-intensive eye candy and concentratess on the words. Media Literacy Online ProjectThe goal of the Media Literacy Online Project is to provide teachers, students, parents, and producers, with a comprehensive resource collection related to the influence of media in the lives of children, youth, and adults. Multimedia Schools and Copyright LawAs teachers expand their use of copyrighted video and computer programs and incorporate the use of multimedia materials into their classes, concerns have arisen as to the legal use and reproduction of such materials. VidKid Lesson aids The activities included in this unit take a "low tech" approach toward moving pictures. Emphasis is placed on the concepts of sight, motion, time, and space. Students are also introduced to photographic imagery, an important component of video. Video Production in the ClassroomThis resource guide addresses some of the main areas concerning video production in the classroom. It should be useful for both educators who are versed in video production and those who are just "getting their feet wet." Interested in seeing what Educational Publishers have to offer you, try these links Comprehensive List of Publishers in the U.S. Links to University Presses Addison Wesley Longman Allyn & Bacon Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Gryphon House Harcourt Brace Harper-Collins Heinemann Heinle & Heinle Houghton Mifflin Company IDG Books Worldwide Jossey-Bass MBS Direct McGraw-Hill Prentice Hall Owns: Merrill Simon & Schuster Higher Education International Thomson Publishing Owns: Autodesk Press Boyd & Fraser Brooks/Cole Course Technology Delmar Milady PWS South-Western College South-Western Educational Wadsworth Bartletts QuotationsA searchable database for the "quotation" that you need. Ever wonder who said what? You will find the answer here. How to Cite Internet ResourcesJust as your students need to cite the books and periodicals they use to support their research, so too must they cite online sources of information. Last March, Classroom Connect was the first to publish a comprehensive, easy-to-understand method for citing online information in student bibliographies. E 'Lectric Learning Web TH E 'LECTRIC LEARNING (TELL) WEB comes to inspire a new breed of educator and learner--the EMPOWERED teacher and learner. THE TELL WEB houses LEARNTOPIA, a cyberspatial learning community under development. We hope to work with other grassroot publishers, educational activists,schools, non-profits organizations, and corporations interested in promoting quality learning and global knowledge-building to create new structures and paradigms for teaching and learning worldwide. Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet  Browse by Author, Date, Host, Language, Subject or Title. Quite spectacular for content. Dictionaries Many and varied,  including choice of language plus bilingual dictionaries. Literary Calendar  Reveals what literary giants' birthdays you share in addition to other historical information related to publishing and writing for every day of the year. Medieval Drama Links Broken down by topic, a very useful conglomeration of references to plays, costumes, music Roget's Thesaurus A searchable Gopher index by keywords. Virtual Reference Desk All-purpose great general reference which includes multiple valuable reference volumes, many of which are applicable to the study of English. Writers on The Victorian Web  This collection of essays on Victorian writers ties their works into the social and scientific contexts of their times. The table of contents to the entire Victorian Web American Literature of the 18th & 19th Cenutury E-texts of many of the classics. American Lliterature of the 20th Century in E-text form. Bibliomania: Classic Fiction Complete texts of works from Louisa May Alcott, James Joyce, Charles Dickens and many others. The main entrance to the site Classic Short Stories  Excellent collection of short stories, arranged by title. Includes works by many great writers and such classics as "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "The Lady, or the Tiger?" and "The Lottery."http://www.bnl.com/shorts/ Project Bartleby Columbia University's Project Bartleby bills itself as "The Public Library of the Internet." Includes Bartlett's quotations, The Odyssey of Homer, works by Dickinson, Keats, Melville, Shelley, Strunk, Whitman, Wilde, Wordsworth, and many more. Writing Black USA Historical and current literary pieces, including works by Maya Angelou, Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, and Langston Hughes.http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.black.html SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare Home Page The Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. The original electronic source for this server is the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare, which is freely available online. There may be differences between a copy of a play that you happen to be familiar with and the one of this server: Don't worry, this is a very common phenomenon. Bartlett's Familiar Shakespearean Quotations Quotations linked to the actual lines in Shakespeare's plays. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare An archive that contains what the title says. ThinkQuest educational web page design competition. Macbeth Plugged Excellent site about Macbeth designed by high school students. Includes a detailed look at the characters, background on the play, and the complete text with linked vocabulary (clicking on a linked word opens up a sidebar glossary). Shakespearean Glossary In addition to the glossary, you will also find Willie's Comedies, Histories, Poetry and Tragedies. Shakespeare's Globe Includes history of the most famous theatre in the world, including information on its rebuilding. Includes virtual reality QuickTime views of the Globe during its reconstruction. Designed by the University of Reading. The Shakespeare Mystery Did William Shakespeare really write all those plays and sonnets, or was he given credit for another writer's work? This web site presents a balanced analysis of the evidence on both sides of this intense debate. Ties into the PBS television series http://www2.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/ The Works of the Bard - Shakespearean Search Engine One of the most complete search engines for Shakespeare found to date. Books Online The On-Line Books Page is a directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet. It includes: An index of thousands of on-line books on the Internet Pointers to significant directories and archives of on-line texts and Special exhibits! The Complete Works of William Shakespeare The Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. The original electronic source for this server is the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare, which is freely available online. There may be differences between a copy of a play that you happen to be familiar with and the one of this server: Don't worry, this is a very common phenomenon. Children's Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided by others: fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises involved in the book world. Sarah Byrd Askew Library This page is maintained by the Library's Internet Resources Committee. and includes links to curriculum material and how to site sources from the net. Ministry of Education, Skills and Training Examination, Key and Report to Schools Search Page These examinations and key response materials are provided exclusively for the non-profit use of teachers, administrators and students in the B.C. educational system of schools, universities and colleges for study, practice and teaching purposes only. No other use or reproduction in any form or by any means including electronic storage, reproduction, execution or transmission is permitted without the prior written permission of the Ministry of Education, Skills and Training, Province of British Columbia. Return to top of page I believe that travel is one of the best educational experience a person can have. We learn about new areas, about other people while having fun. I have, in the above links, put together travel links to over 100 countries, 300 Airlines, 150 Airports and other great holiday planning resources, from around the world to help you plan your travels and vacations. To help you save money I have linked to a very good currency converter  and a great currency cheat sheet which you can print out and carry with you when you travel. Just choose your destination! If you have any comments or if you would like information on how we can help, pleaseEmail Me! Help The Fight Against Spam!