Useful Educational And Conflict Resolution Links

Useful Educational Links

Education goals

State of CA Word Analysis & Systematic Vocabulary Development Proposed Standards
National Goals for Education
Prisoners Of Time : Report of the National Education Commision on Time and Learning

Quotations

Oneliners and proverbs
Ye Olde English Sayings
Mathematical Quotation Server
Quotations Home Page
Dave's Random Quote Database
A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Word Origins

Sea World - Latin Lingo - decode each dolphin's scientific name
Penguin - The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Word Origins
Where's THAT From?
Word origins not always black and white
Archive of Your Etymology Questions (from The Logical World of Etymology)
A selection of Greek and Latin roots.
ASK JANIS - Word Origins
Yahoo! - Social Science:Linguistics and Human Languages:Etymology
Days of the Week Word Origins
Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics
Word origins and meanings of Economic terms
A Thesaurus of Word Roots of the English Language
Verbal Clues With Latin
Etymology of Names

Word Sources

State of CA Word Analysis & Systematic Vocabulary Development Proposed Standards
Oxford word categoriies ftp site
Carnegie Mellon Word frequencies search
Homophones in English RP
verbs, adjectives and nouns, and their dependent prepositions
most common irregular verbs
Dictionary of English Phonesthemes Part 1
Mag's Word Finder - finds all words made from letters in a word
Daily newspaper published VOCABULARY puzzles
Directory of /pub/bnc British National Corpus
The Hierarchical Structure of Words
AAC - Augmentative and alternative communication U of Nebraska
Vocabulary.com
Ring of Steel - Shakespearean Insults
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
english pronunciation trivia question & answers
Examples - Gingrich Glitter
The Word Detective
Jesse's Word of the Day
Word for Word: Q&A
Visions - Chrysti the Wordsmith: Previous Words
Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary (and Guru)
Cloze procedure activities

Text Sources

Finding reading materials on the Web
Oxford Text Archive
Oxford text archive by subject gopher
Oxford Large list of e-texts.
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Humanities
The International Lyrics Server
Gutenberg Master Index
Sunday London Times
SIL etext list
Directory of English Language classics
Burma Shave Slogans
Search many wais databases.
Declaration of Human Rights
Exploratoriam - Ladle Rat Rotten Hut
Taglines Galore!
Complex Statements for the Simple- Minded
gopher: Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
Robert & Jessica's Atlantic Connection - Tongue Twisters
Tongue twisters, Zungenbrecher, Trabalenguas, Skorogovorki
Library of Congress World Wide Web (LC Web) Home Page
Library of Congress Public FTP Site
Quotes & Slogans from various pinball games
Duff's Humor Mailing List Archive

Language Games

Puzzamatic - word puzzle generator
Soemarmo's Language Games Menu
Daily newspaper published VOCABULARY puzzles
Generate a random recipe
Gameshows.com
Main Sanitary Nag (Anagram Insanity)
Word.Net's Ambigram.Matic -Ambigrams are words or phrases that can be read in more than one way or from more than a single vantage point.
Puzzle Archives
HandiLinks To Crossword Puzzles
Susie's Place -- The Word Games Page
GHOST is a two player online word game
Andy's anagram solver
Language Puzzles
Crosswords & Other Word Games
PIZZAZ! - creative writing activities and copyable handouts
Cobuild Fill-the-blank Competition

English Dictionaries

The Natural Language Playground
Rhyming dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary Online
WWWebster Dictionary - Search screen
ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form
OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder
List of Dictionaries
OED Key to the Pronunciation
LONGMAN DICTIONARIES HOME
UWA Psychology: MRC Psycholinguistic Database Interface
Index of On-line Dictionaries
Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use - Contents
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
Word Dictionary Structure
The New Hacker's Dictionary - Table of Contents
Longman Interactive English Dictionary

Metaphors

ATT-Meta Project MENTAL METAPHOR DATABANK
Metaphor Center

Writing

LiveText Curricula
Children's Edition Urgent Actions
The Urgent Action Guide
The 21st Century: A Newspaper Written by Teens for Teens
Writing handouts (Purdue University)
Purdue University On-line Writing Lab
All the Best Film, Television, Script, Prose, Fiction, Dramatic Story Structure, Plot, and Development Software

Lesson Plan Archives

LiveText Curricula
SCORE: Lesson Plans
Teachers.Net Lesson Plan Exchange
Blue Web'n Lesson Plans
Sonoran Sky Lesson Plans
CNN Newsroom & WorldView for ESL - Index of Previous Exercises
K-12 Sources - Curriculum - Lesson Plans - excellent list
Odyssey of the Mind - promotes creative team-based problem solving

Speech

The Natural Language Playground
Phonemic Font Package
Synthetic Speech Examples
Synthesis of Speech
International Phonetic Association
Stuttering Home Page
Topic: areas/speech/systems/
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
Let's Talk - listen to cartoon characters, tongue twisters

Grammar

The Natural Language Typechecker
The Natural Language Playground
ATEG: English Grammar
Table of Contents: On-Line English Grammar
Language Activities(Past Verb Tenses)
Verb Tenses
CNN Newsroom & WorldView for ESL - Index of Previous Exercises
Java Interactive Syntax Tutor
HyperGrammar
Grammar for English Language Learners
Table of Contents: On-Line English Grammar
English Relative Clause Constructions
AN ELEMENTARY GRAMMAR
Grammar and Style
11 Rules of Grammar: Main Page
Syntax tutor
Affix Grammar for Basic English
A Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar for English
The XTAG Project
On-Line English Grammar

ESL/EFL

SARAH AND JOHN'S TEFL PITSTOP, ESL, ENGLISH TEACHING
Ernie's EFL activity page
EFL Guidance Test
Internet TESL Journal
Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students
Foreign Language Learning Resources - CALL
CNN Newsroom & WorldView for ESL - Index of Previous Exercises
ESL Quizzes and Exercises
The ESL Quiz Center
Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students

English Resources: Links to Links

LiveText Curricula
The Natural Language Playground
THE ORIGIN OF ENGLISH.
HEL History of the English Language Website
alt.usage.english FAQ
Dave Wilton's History of the English Language Page
English Language Links
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums
University of Virginia: English Electronic Texts Resources
Writers Free Reference
Prof. Vanden Bosch's Writing Resources
LOGOS selected links to other linguistic resources (Sorted by subject)
Finding reading materials on the Web
SCORE Language Arts Cover Page
Readers and Writers Resource Page
Filez - Search 75M files and 1000s of servers for freeware, shareware, & commercial software
The rec.puzzles Archive
Herald-Standard OnLine Manual List
Web Sites And Resources For Teachers
Word Wise Informal Test of Sight Vocabulary
Autonomy and Independence in Language Learning
Internet Resources for Language Teachers
Oxford University Language Centre: List of Language Email Lists
Oxford University Language Centre

Neat Stuff

The Mediator - Conflict resolution applet
Puzzamatic - word puzzle generator applet
Real Graffiti by artifacto
JuggleAnim Applet Page
Outstanding Educational Examples
SIPB Fun Stuff Page
Sound to Graph and Graph to Sound
Presentationware - free interactive web video development
The NPAC Visible Human Viewer
Visual Human Project Home Page

Math education

Mathematical Quotation Server
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
Kepler's Three Laws of Planetary Motion
Outstanding Educational Examples
Puzzle Archives
Geometry and the Imagination in Minneapolis

Biomechanics

JuggleAnim Applet Page
EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE · Pacific Interactive Media
MUYBRIDGE, WebLinks
Muybridge, Magnum Opus
Animal Movies
Muybridge, opener
BIOMECHANISTS OF THE WORLD
Locomotion II
Biomechanics World Wide In Frames
GIPSTRA Quantification of Animal Locomotor Activity

Internet

All-in-One Search Page
Link To Internets' Database of Databases
NASA - WebWeavers Page
CataList, the catalog of LISTSERV lists
E-Mail Discussion Groups and Lists - Resources

Science Education

Sea World Classroom Activities
NSF Geosciences Unidata Integrated Earth Information Server (IEIS)
EEN: Teacher Resources from the Environmental Education Network
Frank Potter's Science Gems - Earth Science II