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Catalog of links to online reading collections including Rob Waring's extensive reading links and the Project Gutenberg libraray

This page at the College Writing Center at Potsdam, the State University of New York, has links to numerous writing websites. For example, there's link to the Purdue OWL resource page for students and teachers of English as a second language.

Complete, step-by-step demonstration and instructions for getting started with WordPress: sign-up, site navigation, blog creation, creating and deleting posts, adding categories and tags (labels), using views, tabs, and filters, using pages, creating links, adding images, and embedding videos (23 short episodes).

Pro-public post loaded with suggestions and a link to sample guidelines.

"Student photos, and especially linking names with specific photos, is a common concern that comes up when blogging, sharing videos, or using other web services online. / Information that helps someone identify a student should always be shared with care" (Sue Waters, September 26, 2013).

Authors of Teaching Writing Using Blogs... are hoping to collect "material related to the topics in this wikibook: links, references, files, descriptions of teaching activities, or student work." For permission to comment on or edit this wiki, "request access from Richard Beach, University of Minnesota, at rbeach@umn.edu" (Front Page, 2010.08.03).

List of and links to English pages attached to the Kumamoto Prefecture Web Site: Agriculture, Int'l Exchangee[s], Tourism ...

"Blogger pages let you to publish static information on stand-alone pages linked from your blog. For example, you can use pages to create an About This Blog page that discusses the evolution of your blog, or a Contact Me page that provides directions, a phone number, and a map to your location." (¶1)

Definition of collaboration Sebastien Pacquet point out in Radical Inclusion - Open Virtual Collaboration introductory discussion (Linked-In, c. Nov. 2009).

Shows and tells ways attributing quotations of words or short passages about which you blog to their original authors with links and acknowledgements

"If you are an educator who would like to use royalty free music in your classroom, click on the Free Music Programs link to submit an application to download stock music free of charge" (Free Royalty Free Stock Music for Education, ¶2, 2010.04.13))

"You can export your members' profile information at any time from the Manage Members page This will generate a comma-separated (CSV) text file that you can open using a program like Excel. It'll contain information about your members, including their name on your Ning Network, a link to their profile page, their email address, the date they joined, their birthday, and their answers to all of the profile questions on your Ning Network."

"The Academic Word List (AWL) was developed by Averil Coxhead at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The list contains 570 word families which were selected because they appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. The list does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English (the General Service List), thus making it specific to academic contexts. The AWL was primarily made so that it could be used by teachers as part of a programme preparing learners for tertiary level study or used by students working alone to learn the words most needed to study at colleges and universities." This page gives a compact listing of all the word families in the AWL, divided by sublist, each word linked to a simple definition page.

Introduces second video in Tim Murphey's "Japanese student voices" series, explains problems arising from rising tuition costs for students going overseas, and links to various related articles.

"LinkWithin is a blog widget that appears under each post, linking to related stories from your blog archive" (Show Related Stories Under Each Post, para. 1, 2011.05.14).

Resource "links for students to use" as they move from traditional reading, to critical reading, and on to critical literacy

This page at the College Writing Center at Potsdam, the State University of New York, has links to numerous writing handouts. For example, there's a handout illustrating the use and misuse of apostrophes and commas, and another explaining and illustrating the use of transitions.

"The main part of this website, the History, can be read as a kind of story, in chapters, following the development of the English language from its Indo-European origins, through Old English and Middle English to Early Modern English and Late Modern English, before a brief look at English Today. But there is also section on Language Issues (including How New Words are Created, Language and Geography and English as a Global Language), a Timeline of important dates in the development of English, a Glossary of some of the technical and historical terms used, and a list of Sources and Links." (Introduction, ¶5)

In this blog post (2014.09.30), Sabio Lantz (pen name) represented the history of the English Language in a single diagram. The main source of info. for that diagram was another website to which there is a link at the end of the post.