12.8.10: ThoughtAudio
After Jeremy's presentation on the usage of audiobooks, I discovered this website that offers audio versions of many classic stories, such as The Gift Of The Magi, by O. Henry, Call of the Wild, by Jack London, The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe, and many more! Perhaps this website can be a key helper for reluctant readers!
12.6.10: Book Crossing
Yet another online library! Between all the online libraries, we should have access to pretty much EVERYTHING EVER WRITTEN. This website offers tools for "labeling," "sharing," and "following," so that you can relate and compare to books that others are reading, and perhaps base your next book selection off what you see other users have read, are currently reading, or intend to read.
11.30.10: Time Saving Search Engines for the Serious Scholar
This is a link, essentially to a ton of other useful links. The site says this:
"Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only serious, academic results so time isn’t wasted on unprofessional resources."
That will most definitley be useful to me, and even though the site seems to cater to college students, I'm sure reliable resources can also be useful to high schoolers for research projects and other writing pieces.
11.22.10: Bartleby Books
- A website that offers books online.
- Offers "reference," "verse," "fiction," and "nonfiction" sections, with lists of authors and sources.
- Some authors and poets included: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Rovert Frost (and many more!)
- Having students refer to these works online can save a lot of paper and ink!
The introduction to the website states:
"Our goal is to be "The Library To The World", a web portal in which books, education materials, information, and content will be freely to anyone who has an internet connection.
Bookyards has a total of 17,009 books, 41,784 external web links, 4,197 news & blogs links, 384 videos, 32,963 Ebook links and access to hundreds of online libraries (800,000 Ebooks) for your reading pleasure."
There is a specific section for education, where there is a link to "technology," and then further links to respective age groups, including "high school" and "middle school," and other search parameters such as "lessons," "resources," and "tools."
11.7.10: The Literature Network
This website describes it best itself:
"We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. We currently have nearly 3000 full books and almost 4000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes."
Sounds useful to me!
10.25.10: This random English tools website that I stumbled upon!
10.11.10:
Pixcetera is a website of beautiful photos! We haven't had a mini lesson on it, and I don't think it was included in that list, but I think it'd be a great tool! I only looked at one gallery but was very intriguied by the photos, and could definitely use them as writing prompts. Check it out!
I'm not sure what day I wrote this on:
Frustrated in class today (my brain was not cooperating), I fell back on a trusty internet resource: StumbleUpon. As you may have noticed, I have included a StumbleUpon button on the right hand side of my blog, to encourage any readers to get involved! After filling out your interests, you simply click "Stumble!" and are transported to a website that the StumbleUpon engine 'thinks' you may be interested in! I have Stumbled Upon games, artwork, fashion editorials, travel sites, photography projects, etc.-- 90% of which I have definitely enjoyed. Yes, StumbleUpon misjudges your taste sometimes, but what's great is that you can provide instant feedback, by either clicking the "I Like This!" button, or the "I Don't Like This" button. You can also bookmark pages that you would like to be able to go back to at some point.This feature however, is reserved for those with StumbleUpon accounts.After a few stumbles without an account, the engine will prompt you to create an account. It isn't mandatory, but after my frist few stumbles, I was eager to sign up. It's free, and I love it. I've stumbled over 600 times to date (it's a great time-killer).
So, today, I stumbled twice, first upon an article about a man's quest to decrease road rage (he invented a light-up sign that goes in the back of your window, that displays the word "SORRY," and then at the flick of a switch, "THANKS") and then upon this article. Looks like I've found my next independent reading book. Not only is the topic of high personal interest, but it's also something that can be brought into the class room, the main character being fourteen years old, and eating disorders being present in high numbers during the years of adolescence.
I encourage you to stumble! You never know what you'll find, but you can almost always best that you will like it/love it/want to read more about it!
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