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June 25, 2006
Double-click
HERE’S a little something that teachers and students can indulge in while browsing the internet:
Break the news
Are your teachers beginning to complain that you only know what’s in the textbook? When watching programs like “Mastermind Ring”, how many answers do you know to the questions which are asked? Here is one website which you can bookmark and visit on a regular basis. Featured here are newspapers from all over the world. You can go through their pages, read the headlines and bookmark the pages.
www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/
Power tools
Whether you are a teacher looking to brush up the writing skills of your students, or a student wishing to spruce up his/her creativity, this is one website which will definitely help you out. There are no less than 50 highly specific tools given here in detail which you can use. So if there is a particular area which you think is problematic, simply point and click at the link giving below.
www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/fifty-50-tools-which-can-help-you-in-writing.html
Grey areas
If you are tired of black and white boards, here is one website which you can use to make your classes more interesting. This website hosts a whole collection of multimedia presentations on a variety of subjects. Some of the subjects here include biology, chemistry, physics and astronomy. You can download them and use them in your classes, that is, if you can convince your school authorities to provide you with the necessary equipment.
www.worldofteaching.com
Poetry and prose
This website has put together literary texts and study guides of a variety of different authors. You can choose from various sections like drama, fiction, poetry and short stories and read the texts chapter-wise. There is a whole section on teachers’ resources as well.
www.bibliomania.com/0/0/frameset.html — Hafsa Ahsan
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