Click a link--like an electronic bookcase!
Below you will find links to sites that are useful and/or interesting. Check
back regularly for updates and new links that relate to what we are working
on in class. If you want to suggest any useful sites, please let me know!
The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to
restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big
Read in partnership with Arts Midwest. The Big Read brings together partners
across the country to encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment.
“Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective story, perfected the horror tale, and
first articulated the theory of the modern short story as well as the idea of
pure poetry. A hero of Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, and Nabokov, Poe has never been
entirely respectable to American critics because of his twin “faults”: being
too eccentric, and too popular among common readers.
It’s time to say the obvious. No author stays internationally popular for 150
years by accident. Poe is one of the classic authors of American literature—a
master of the short story, a magician of the short poem, and a critic of
brilliance and originality. And no small part of his artistic sleight of hand
is that he appeals to readers from childhood to old age. Let us underestimate
him nevermore!”
www.neabigread.org/books/edgarallanpoe/
The Big Read - Edgar Allen Poe--- events
DoSomething.org
This site has great ideas if you are someone who wants to make the world a
better place. You and your friends can find a project here.
Powering Offline Action. Using the power of online to get teens to do good
stuff offline.
Do Something.org
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Writing Resources
Purdue OWL
Free Rice
For each answer you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated
through the UN
World Food Program to help end hunger
FreeRice
Find your own quotes of the day and quotes of the week!
Cool Quotes
Albuquerque Public Library
Need to find a book to read? Working on research? Homework
Help?
Here's a quick link!
Albuquerque Public Library
Online Dictionary
Want to find out what a word means, how to pronounce a word, or
the etymological path a word has taken? Check out this handy
reference site.
Dictionary.com
Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you
provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear
more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds
with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you
create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can
print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to
share with your friends. Try one using a quote of the week or
the characters in your novel!
Make your own Wordle!
What's Your Learning Style?
Learning styles refer to the ways you prefer to approach new
information. Each of us learns and processes information in our
own special ways, though we share some learning patterns,
preferences, and approaches. Knowing your own style also can help
you to realize that other people may approach the same situation
in a different way from your own.
What is Your Learning Style?
Pipe Cleaner Dancer
Have fun with this animation!
Music: Use button A - E to choose different tunes. Use button X
to shut off the music.
Instructions: Click on a round button to start some tunes. Then
use the keyboard, or mouse-over the keyboard on the screen to
dance. Use the round x button to stop the music. Note: the keys
are case-sensitive so make sure caps lock is off.
Pipe Cleaner Dancer
This clock is quite different than some you may have seen before.
Just look at it and study it. It gives you the EXACT TIME of
the DAY in
seconds, minutes, hours, the day, month and year. Just read
the green line.
Everything's there. Study it for a few seconds and it will
all come clear
to you.
Remember these definitions:
1st Line is Seconds
2nd Line is Minutes
3rd line is Hours.
4th Line is Days
5th Line is Months
6th Line is Years
This is the COOLEST clock yet!!
Cool Clock
World Statistics Updated in Real Time -- amazing!
Worldometer-Real Time World Statistics
Live real-time count of world population; energy; crimes; food
production;
environmental impacts; and more. Check it out!
Another Cool World Clock
Here at YoYoExpert we believe that the yo-yo is more than just a
toy and it is our mission to show the world how amazing this
simple object can become with a little practice and perseverance.
Whether you are a beginner or a budding expert, check out this
site to improve
your technique and learn some tricks.
Yo-Yo Expert - Learn Yo-Yo Tricks
Ever wonder what your computer does at night...when you leave it
on and unsupervised? Turn on the sound and check this out! Have
fun!!
Animator vs Animation
Take a look at the Pecos Monument. This is where we will visit during our
fall camping trip.
Pecos Pueblo National Historic Monument
Other Resources
Here are some other resources that you can't find on the internet.