Literature
Literary Resources on the Net
Maintained by Prof. Jack Lynch of Rutgers Newark, this site provides a straightforward directory to sites literary.
PBS NewsHour Poetry Series
Don't think poetry is an urgent need? This site makes you think again as it offers Poetry Foundation resources and the latest news on how poets reflect on and reshape world events.
USA Literature in Brief
Created by the U. S. Governement and produced for teachers and students of English and literature and readers with an interest in this subject, this publication, is based on a more extensive overview, the Outline of American Literature. The website is no longer maintained but can be found through Archive.org. A PDF version may be found here.
Encyclopedia Mythica
An award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion, Encyclopedia Mythica includes Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic mythology among others. Another popular area of interest is Arthurian legend.
BibleGateway
Maintained by Gospel Communications, Inc. this search engine helps locate Old and New Testament verses of the Christain Bible. The site offers scores of translations in various languages and versions.
Qur'an and Hadith Search
This website from U of Southern California offers a search engine for Islamic texts. Of course, translation into English is controversial, but this site offers three interlinear translations into English by scholars: Yusufali, Pickthal, and Shakir.
Folger Shakespeare Library's Discover Shakespeare
Whether you are just discovering Shakespeare, or are simply eager to learn more about his life, his works, how they were first performed, and the times in which he lived, these resources created by Folger staff members and others make learning about Shakespeare enjoyable.
Swiss Education - English Studies
Made by an English teacher who has taught in Switzerland, this site offers literary study help.
Annenberg Media - Literature and Language Arts
A great blogroll of sites pertaining to English education.
Library of America - Story of the Week
Subscribe to receive a story-of-the-week from Library of America.
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Writing
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) Purdue's site early won its place as the premier resource for writing. It includes tips and examples for virtually every type of writing.
Guide to Grammar and Style Professor Jack Lynch of Reutgers provides a lexicon of topics on grammar and style.
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Study Skills
Student Resource Center
The University of Central Florida has a cornucopia of ideas to improve your study skills.
Note-Taking
Stanford University's guide to evaluating your own note-taking and guides to types of efficient and effective skills.
Printable pdfs.
Affixes
This is an online dictionary of affixes, prefixes, and suffixes. Just the fix for vocabulary building.
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Libraries
Digital Librarian
Self-described as "a librarian's choice of the best of the Web," this site presents an index of interesting and credible sources for research, learning, or pleasure reading.
The Internet Public Library
By far the best free online directory of resources.
Mad Cybrarian's Library
This site offers listings of online texts by author. If you want to find every online version of Dickens, Hemingway, or Shakespeare, this site is for you.
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Story / History
NPR Story Corps: Recording America
Maintained by Prof. Jack Lynch of Rutgers Newark, this site provides a straightforward directory to sites literary.
Writing Fix
This website by the Northern Nevada Writing Project offers prompts and advice for creative writing.
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Media Literacy
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Common Sense Media
This website provides families and educators with straight talk about social media, films, television, and more. As the name implies, there's a calm, common sense approach here. Following is the mission statement and ten core beliefs of Common Sense Media.
Common Sense Media Beliefs
Media is fun and our kids love it. We also know that kids now spend so much time absorbing its messages and images that it has become "the other parent" in their lives. We started this organization because we know families need trustworthy information to help manage their kids' media lives. We're posting our beliefs here so that all our users can know the underlying principles that guide our philosophy and mission.
Ten Common Sense Beliefs
- We believe in media sanity, not censorship.
- We believe that media has truly become "the other parent" in our kids' lives, powerfully affecting their mental, physical, and social development.
- We believe in teaching our kids to be savvy media interpreters -- we can’t cover their eyes but we can teach them to see.
- We believe parents should have a choice and a voice about the media our kids consume. Every family is different but all need information.
- We believe that the price for free and open media is a bit of extra homework for families. Parents need to know about media content and need to manage media use.
- We believe that through informed decision making, we can improve the media landscape one decision at a time.
- We believe appropriate regulations about right time, right place, and right manner exist. They need to be upheld by our elected and appointed leaders.
- We believe in age-appropriate media and that the media industry needs to act responsibly as it creates and markets content for each audience.
- We believe ratings systems should be independent and transparent for all media.
- We believe in diversity of programming and media ownership.
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Center for Media Literacy a non-profit distributor of media literacy books, DVDs, and curricula.
Media Education Foundation offers many videos and handouts to look critically at the media
Critical Evaluation Surveys and Resources
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators from Discovery School lists a plethora of resouces and activities to teach critical evaluation.
4Teachers: Integrating Technology
Here's a list from 4Teachers.org of sites for more information on surfing safe and effectively.
FTC's Travel Tips for the Information Highway: Site Seeing
In an inviting metaphor of travel the Federal Trade Commission has assembled these rules of the road for safely navigating the Internet. Now available through an Archived page (some links may not work.) It is alternatively available from the Better Business Bureau.
Periodic Table for Information Literacy
This periodic table by Visual-Literacy.org provides examples of virtually every way to display information visually. Use this to provide inspiration to your note-taking and presentations. Mouse over the table to see examples.
INTERNET SAFETY
SafeTeens
Topics on this site include "Safe Blogging Tips for Teens" and "Guidelines for Parents of Teens."
NetFamilyNews
Run by journalist and child advocateAnne Collins, NetFamilyNews, is a public service for parents, educators, and everyone interested in young people's use of technology. NetFamilyNews is the virtual "community newspaper" of a vital interest community. Founded in 1999, it has become the journal-of-record on all aspects of youth and technology and is the only high-frequency news service of its kind in the English-speaking world, serving readers in more than 50 countries. The site is based on the premise that informed, engaged parenting is essential to kids' constructive use of technology. With the advent of Web 2.0, or the social Web, that has never been more true.
MySafeSurf
This is educational technology expert Kevin Honeycutt's index to Internet safety resources for students of various ages and their parents.
COPYRIGHT & FAIR USE ISSUES
Creativity -- Copyright Awareness
One of the clearest sites explaning copywright as it pertains to education.
Copyright Basics
From the Library of Congress, this site explains basic copyright law.
Copyright and Fair Use
From Standford University, this site has explanations of general copyright law as well as fair use policy for educators.
Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials
This site offers a "Rule of Thumb" and the Four Factor Test related to help determine Fair Use.
Copyright Kids
Easy-to-understand explanations on copyright for students.
See "Keeping It Legal" below under "Web Links for Teachers."
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Media in the Public Domain or CopyLeft
Various Types
Common Content
Search catalogue of images, movies, audio, text, and Web sites whose creators have licensed them into Creative Commons to be used for copying, adapting, etc.
Compfight - Creative Commons Search of Flickr Photos
Set the search for Creative Commons Only for photos from Flickr licensed by CC.
Wylio
Searchs for Creative Commons licensed and Public Domain photos.
Creative Commons Search
Search the Web for items that have been licensed by Creative Commons.
Music & Sound
Magnatune
This site features music licensed in the Creative Commons. See individual artist licensing statements for noncommercial, educational, and podcast uses.
CCMixter
This site features music licensed in the Creative Commons.
Jamendo
This site features music licensed in the Creative Commons.
Freesound
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
This site focuses on sound, rather than music, licensed in the Creative Commons.
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Technology Tools
Audacity
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
iTunes
Apple software to store and convert audio and video files.
TeacherTube
Video up/download site with videos for classroom use as well as how-to-tech videos
Zamar
Zamar provides the ability to transform a file from its original file format to a user-selected file format.
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Web Links for Teachers
ReadWriteThink
ReadWriteThink.org is produced by the literacy experts at the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English, through a grant provided by the Verizon Foundation, and is a member of the Verizon Thinkfinity consortium. RWT offers lesson plans, materials, and links to resources for teaching reading, writing, and well, thinking!
Roobrix
This web tool converts any rubric score into a percentage.
Edutopia
George Lucas Educational Foundations' emagazine full of "what works in education public education." Emphasis here is on creativity and technology in education.
Thinkfinity
Verizon Foundation's professional development site with a focus on education, literacy, and technology. Find free lesson plans and instructional materials in its collection.
Keeping It Legal
In an article for From Now On (June 1996) article, Jamie MacKenzie reports on Copyright and Fair Use as the issue relates to media in the classroom.
Find web links for teachers on the Media for Teachers page.
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