British Council
Unit 8: Proofreading
Plagued by punctuation or stymied by spelling? Lesson eight in a nine-part series of career education and skills activities introduces the importance of proofreading. Learners categorize common writing errors and construct error-free...
Newspaper Association of America
Press Ahead!
Give class members some great news! A media unit teaches individuals about ethics, parts of a newspaper, business writing, photojournalism, and more topics that have to do with the press. Full of material for a variety of learners,...
We are Teachers
What Goes Up Must Come Down
From understanding stock market performance and return on investment to identifying the costs and benefits of credit and avoiding debt problems, this is an absolute must-have resource for financial planning and literacy.
Orange Public Schools
Stagecraft
The house lights dim, the curtain parts, lights slowly come up, revealing the stage. Before the actors appear, before a word is spoken, the audience is drawn in by the lighting, by the colors, by lines of the set, by the props, and...
Other
Learn the Net: About Modems
A basic overview and comparison of types of computer modems. Covers phone modems, DSL, cable modems, ISDN, and business T1 and T3 lines. Good animated illustration of data transmission.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Digital Mapping and Geographic Information Systems (Gis)
Geographic information systems (GIS), once used predominantly by experts in cartography and computer programming, have become pervasive in everyday business and consumer use. This unit explores GIS in general as a technology about which...
Other
The Father of Linux Looks Back
A profile of Linus Torvalds which has some early biographical information as well as his views on the future of Linux and information on his job with Transmeta.