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Shvidko, Elena. (2015, March 20). Six websites for learning English idioms [weblog post]. Retrieved from http://blog.tesol.org/6-websites-for-learning-english-idioms/

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.

"This is the official Website for the Fukuoka chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)." (Welcome to Fukuoka JALT, ¶1, 2010.09.30)

This tutorial by Zachary Zawarski explains "how to create a map with custom locations that you can publish on your website" (¶1). "The greatest benefit of this tool is that current entries can be edited and new entries can be added to the map through the Google spreadsheet without having to update the map's code..." (¶2, retrieved 2011.09.07). Thanks to Denise Krebs for pointing it out, and demonstrating how to do it in a recorded RSCON3 session (Elluminate recording entitled: Where in the world? Or, adding a directory map using a spreadsheet to your wiki.  For more info., please see her blog posts: http://mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org/2011/07/28/posting-a-directory-map-at-rscon3/ http://mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org/2011/08/06/mapping-our-connections-my-rscon3-session/

A menu of 15 posts in "a series of essays, articles and tutorials on the topic of understanding the theory behind great website designs" (retrieved 2012.03.08).

Let's you go from a website to see websites that have the same content.

Basic version, free; premium packages, 15-day trial

Offers free stat's page for blogs and other websites

"Drop.io offers a simple upload widget that you can embed into your course blog or website" ( ¶2). Mr Byrne's 2010.02.25 post includes slideshow of "directions for installing the Drop.io upload widget on Blogger blogs and Edublogs blogs" (¶2).

"For the exercises given in this website, the word families for each sublist have been further divided into six groups for ease of study, with three separate gap-fill exercises for each group" (¶2).

"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.

Quick summary of practices for consumers

"This review of TypingWeb was written by Erin Brereton"

Website for linking up researchers in Japan, done by NII (formerly NACSIS)

Allows you to mark up a web page and either save the image on your desktop or upload to a free website. Will use it to note problems with student blogs

Very interesting site for various checking of assignments

One of four tabs in the SuperPower: Visualizing the internet collection, including: The top 100, ..., Net growth, & How it works

Neat website for online presentations (combine video and powerpoint)