Stumbled across this image while working on 'Northanger Abbey' and thought it would be useful for todays blog about some excellent Austen sites as well as some more useful classroom web tools. Austen is so addictive - reading, image surfing and film adaptations. There are so many blogs dedicated to the fashions of the era as well and and after yet another viewing of 'Sense and Sensibility' I think I agree with the sentiments expressed in the image. Men certainly do look better in cravats.
(for watching shows online)
Some other ICT tools useful for the classroom include the following:
One
Word. So Little Time.: http://oneword.com/index.html
Interesting site! Useful for writing exercises. "simple. you'll see one
word at the top of the following page. you have sixty seconds to write about
it. as soon as you click 'go' the page will load with the cursor in place.
don't think. just write."
Telescopic Text: http://telescopictext.com/
Telescopic Text: http://telescopictext.com/
Very clever website that is useful when teaching about good creative writing and
expression.
Great site with a mass of novel reading strategies and literary units.
Another tool that I found on an American homeschooling site is how to have any written text transformed into audio. For a MP3 clip I think you have to pay but it is great for rhetoric exercises as it offers English and American accents as well as male and female so that you could compare how something is read and what the impact is on meaning. Hope you find these gems useful.
