– Free and Convenient Educational Resources –
This is a series of useful resources that are transferable into the classroom.
Used in conjunction, these websites may help direct students to free resources for information,
for example, academic paper formatting, online books/texts, audiobooks, entomology, conjugation,
front page headlines from around the world,
and former U. S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins’ Poetry 180 project
(a poem a day for American high schools). Enjoy.
Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/
Librivox: http://librivox.org/
Poetry 180: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html
Online Entomology Dictionary: http://www.etymonline.com/
Reverso Conjugator:
http://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-english.html
Freedom Forum – Today’s Front Pages:
https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/
NewseumEd – Digital Classroom:
https://www.newseumed.org/
USA.gov – A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies:
https://usa.gov/agency-index
Bonus Links!!!!!:
Wikipedia’s Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Wikipedia’s Criticism of Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia
Wiktionary: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_page
Thesaurus: http://thesaurus.com/
Urban Dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Google Translator: http://translate.google.com/
Google’s other products: http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/
Behind the Name: http://www.behindthename.com/
Behind the Surname: http://surnames.behindthename.com/
Microsoft Keyboard Keystrokes (CTRL + F, etc): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449
Microsoft Windows – Working with files and folders tutorial: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/working-with-files-folders#1TC=windows-7
Formatting Academic Papers:
Purdue Owl Writing Lab: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Citation Machine: http://www.citationmachine.net/
American Psychological Association (APA): http://www.apa.org/
Modern Language Association (MLA): https://www.mla.org/
National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE): http://www.ncte.org/
