Asia Education FoundationSelect lists of Asia-related texts for the teaching and learning of English in the Australian Curriculum
http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/for_teachers/main_english_text_page.html
NSW HSC Online;
http://hsc.csu.edu.au
Education Network Australia (EDNA)
http://www.edna.edu.au
Semiotics for Beginners by Daniel Chandler:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html
Adbusters: A great source for resistant readings of media issues and consumerism.
http://www.adbusters.org/
The Media and Communications Study site: Useful help with all media analysis
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Functions/mcs.html
The chaser: Australia's only satirical newspaper:
http://www.chaser.com.au/archives.asp?ED=15&B1=View
Voice of the Shuttle: A website for humanities resources.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
A journal of film and popular culture:
http://www.imagesjournal.com/
The WebQuest page
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/
A literary criticism web site:
http://www.cumber.edu/litcritweb/
The Republic of Pemberley: A site devoted to all aspects of Jane Austen.
http://www.pemberley.com/
A rich resource for the study of film, and teaching film theory on the web
http://www.imperica.com/sofia//
Kairos is a refereed online journal exploring the connections between use of language, technology, and pedagogy.
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/
Hypertext resources of all kinds including theory, criticism and examples of interactive writing.
http://www.eastgate.com/Hypertext.html
The National Council of Teachers of English is the professional association of English teachers in the United States.
http://www.ncte.org/
The National Association of Teachers of English is the professional association of English teachers in the United Kingdom
http://www.nate.org.uk/
ATOM
The Australian Teachers of Media produces study guides and educational kits for feature films, documentaries and television programs at:
http://www.metromagazine.com.au/metro/03/032.asp
The Reading Enriches Learning website has student activities organised into small-group, whole-class and individual based on texts suitable for middle year students.
http://www.curriculum.edu.au/rel/
Conceptual Metaphor Home Page
This server is a research tool for those interested in the study of conceptual metaphor systems. This site allows the reader to trace links between metaphors and gain a better idea of the ways metaphor underlies so much of our ways of thinking about aspects of our lives and our world.
http://cogsci.berkeley.edu/
Concept Mapping
This is an old site but has detailed information about various kinds of concept mapping.
http://users.edte.utwente.nl/lanzing/cm_home.htm
English Online
A rich and wide ranging resource for English teachers containing units of work, professional development and student sections to support wide reading.
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/
A useful introduction to contemporary literary theory
http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/
Rugby
A variety of lessons on Rugby pitched at Stage 4 and directly relevant to the NSW English syllabus at:
http://www.rugby.com.au/edrugby/aus.rugby/pages/376
EnhanceTV
This website contains many free services for teachers including
- Weekly email of educational TV highlights
- Over 500 study guides and feature articles
- Educational online TV guide
- RSS feeds
- Podcasts
- A searchable archive of over 40,000 film & TV titles
http://www.enhancetv.com.au/
CopyrightAware
Copyright and Intellectual property have emerged as major issues effecting the use of the web and distributed resources. The MCEETYA ICT Schools Taskforce has developed a website as a source of news, ideas and resourcesfor schools on responsible information use and copyright law. The website summarises the legal aspects of copyright in simple and easy-to-understand pages.
http://www.copyrightaware.gov.au/
2003-2012 United Nations Literacy Decade
Literacy as Freedom' is the theme of the United Nations Literacy Decade(2003-2012) launched at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 13February, 2003.
http://www.unescobkk.org/education/appeal/litdecade/
Online Journals
Curriculum Corporation have initiated a new free online journal, Curriculum Leadership, which aims to provide comprehensive coverage of issues concerning education leaders in primary and secondary education. Curriculum Leadership is published every Friday except during the Christmas and January period. Access is by registration, which is free of charge.
http://cms.curriculum.edu.au/leader/newcms/leader_view_issue.asp
Text resources
Luminarium: A library of Medieval, Renaissance and 17th Century English Literary texts:
http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
Drewe's Script-o-rama: Great online resource for film and television scripts:
http://www.script-o-rama.com/
The Bad Poetry Index:
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bad/index.html
The purpose of Poetry Connection is to showcase quality poetry to literature students and aficionados alike. In addition to texts of published poems, there is also a biography on each featured poet.
http://www.poetryconnection.net/
Trailer World: Movie trailers - a great resource for teaching summary or persuasive language.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/