Online ESL Test -- Canadian. Very good.
ESL Quiz--go here for a series of interactive tests; you even get an instant mark!
About ESL-- Excellent site; check the links on the left of its front page. There are good interactive exercises and games there.
Dave's ESL Cafe--for teachers and students. Forum pages are interesting.
Internet TESL Journal --mainly for teachers, but has a marvellous links section including things for students, including interactive tests.
Common Errors in English This is very valuable for all students. Really clear explanations. Even just browsing will teach you a lot.
English Grammar Online: English (UK)
Guide to English Grammar: Includes essay writing. American, but well worth exploring. In fact, the best site for students especially Year 9 and higher.
Dictionary.Com -- excellent dictionary and thesaurus site.
The Macquarie Dictionary
Chinese poetry in Chinese and English
Have fun and profit from this On-line English-Chinese Dictionary
Writing and Study Skills
Board of Studies NSW
HSC On-line (CSU)
Writing Tips: Essay Builder -- Very good basic ideas. Comes from:-
Tips-o-matic -- helps you with sentences, paragraphs and essays. This was missing in action for a few months, and I am very glad it has reappeared, as it is excellent.
Creative Writing for Teens. As at February 12 2002, the "Net Nanny" on the school network forbids this site on the grounds it is about something we should not see! I have checked, and it isn't!!! (Sorry if that disappoints some people.) So use from home. There are some very good grammar links there though. Perhaps grammar is obscene?
Fiction Links -- Here you'll find direct links to tons of complete, free articles about every aspect of writing and of being a writer in general.
The Fiction Writer's Page -- If youre an aspiring writer, this page can save you time and energy by show you some shortcuts and basic techniques. Good on voice/narrative viewpoint, for example.
Web site created and maintained by Gary B. Larson of Seattle, Washington: Garbl's Writing Center:
very good.
The Writers' Workshop, part of the Center for Writing Studies, University of Illinois
Purdue University ESL -- study/writing advice
englishbiz: (UK) These web pages provide no-nonsense and straightforward help that is focused purely on ways to help you gain higher coursework and exam grades in both English and English Literature.
UK site on writing about poetry which also leads to many other useful skills in literature study. Part of the previous site.
Dan Kurland's Critical Reading--great for Year 10 through to Year 12. U
Critical literacy questions for evaluating a website
Study Skills Self-Help Workshop--time management and many other issues. Interactive site.
Procrastination (putting things off) and how to handle it.
How to Study
Bored of Studies -- serious help put up by past HSC students, with good links, but not all the content can be guaranteed.
English Studies, Literature, Media
General Literature Guides
Online Literature gives access to many texts.
englishbiz: (UK) These web pages provide no-nonsense and straightforward help that is focused purely on ways to help you gain higher coursework and exam grades in both English and English Literature.
UK site on writing about poetry which also leads to many other useful skills in literature study.
Writing about poetry -- very clear, concise advice for students.
Education World's Great Sites for Teaching about Poetry -- someof these links will also
help students.
About Literature--very aggressive popups, but a great site for all students of writing
and literature.
The Quotes Matrix -- How to explain it? Just go there. Fun and learning all at once.
Shakespeare
About Shakespeare
Shakespeare Online
Surfing with the Bard--a good Shakespeare site for students and teachers.
The Shakespeare Classroom
Shakespeare on Film
Shakespeare Magazine -- for teachers and enthusiasts.
Theory
John Lye: "Ideology: a Brief Guide"--very good for Years 11 and 12.
Literary theory--comprehensive articles and links-- for teachers especially in new HSC
English, languages, art etc. Could also be of use to Advanced Yr 11 and 12, esp. people
doing extension units.
TCG's Literary Criticism & Critical Theory Page is very comprehensive and comparatively
easy to use. It describes each of the main approaches and also provides names of typical
critical works in each category.
Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
k.i.s.s. (Keep It Simple Stupid) of the panopticon is a cultural theory and media literacy
Web site
SBHS YEAR 12 POST-MODERNISM EXTENSION 2002 site is STILL HERE -- has some good
links and advice.
Media
GSCE Media Study Guide--excellent for media studies.
Rotten Tomatoes -- a very good guide to movies.
Critical literacy questions for evaluating a website
Journal of Media Literacy
Douglas Kellner: Media Literacies and Critical Pedagogy in a Multicultural Society"
Developing Critical Skills for the Internet
Dan Kurland's Critical Reading--great for Year 10 through to Year 12. Use it!
Wide reading
Want something to read? Look here--leads to reviews of top books.
Australian Literature--more to read. Look especially at the children's literature link and
you can follow particular authors and read about their work.
Amazing Hub Sites
Humbul Humanities Web Hub from the UK, a marvellous resource. This page is for English
Studies, but you will find Classics, Languages, Archaeology, Comparative Literature and
more Humanities subjects. Teachers and seniors.
Stockport LEA (UK) Sixth Form English Resources -- a very thorough set of links to all
manner of things on English Literature.
London School of Journalism English Literature Resources -- a marvellous collection of links.
Voice of the Shuttle -- more advanced set of links to all things literary; a bit like Humbul.
Tasmanian Education Department English Site has much to offer.
The Library Spot--a good place for finding reference books on the Net.
The Internet Public Library is another good hub site.
Text: The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs (http://www.gu.edu.au/school/art/text/) An international electronic refereed journal
published twice yearly--excellent resource on creative writing and the teaching of creative
writing.
Boys' Education
Here, mainly for parents and teachers, are some links on boys' education.
Boys' Education from the P.L. Duffy Resource Centre, Trinity College, Western Australia
(Rosemary Horton Teacher Librarian). An excellent hub site leading to many readings on
this subject.
Introduction to William Pollack on boys' education (Canadian site)
Australian Men - A Social Underclass -- a report that some might see as paranoid, but
worth a look.
ABC Radio: JJJ special on boys' education
Books for Boys in Year 9 and 10--from Victoria.
Boys and books--from Tasmania.
Breaking down boys and books--By Simon Kiss (Alberta, Canada)
Bringing Boys to Books--Julie Walker, Reader-in-Residence at Wakefield Library (UK)
"The Challenges And Dilemmas Facing Boys In Education Today." Nigel Lewis & James
Edmunds
"Masculinity and Academic Discourse" J L Lemke -- a set of notes for thinking over, by a
highly respected student of academic discourse.
Misreading Masculinity Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture Thomas Newkirk, University of New Hampshire -- a pdf file of a chapter on boys and literacy.
Gender and Diversity Issues
(Teacher/Parent Links)
Learning in a Culturally Diverse Society: DET Policy
Racism No Way--supported by all Australian Departments of Education. A very rich
source for policies, teaching ideas in many KLAs, facts...
Mosaic-- Young bilingual Australians on identity and other issues.
Woglife--recommended by a visitor to this site, well worth a look.
Australia 2030: impact of immigration on North Sydney Boys High School.
Immigration, The Facts - Information Kit -- Department of Immigration.
Second Generation Australians: Report for the Department of Immigration and
Multicultural Affairs 2002
ERIC Multicultural Education Digests
A Synthesis of Scholarship in Multicultural Education by Geneva Gay. A classic of its kind.
The Multicultural Pavilion--American but useful
Standards magazine--Interesting articles on diversity, and very beautiful too.
Multicultural fiction with female protagonists--a useful article with attached book-list.
(English teachers especially)
Religious Tolerance--great Canadian site, very comprehensive. Many essays and links on
all matters religious.
Gender Equity--a framework for Australian Schools
HOMOSEXUAL DISCRIMINATION STATEMENT -- NSW Department of Education and Training.
So far as I can judge, all the following links are consistent with this policy.
Young People and Homophobia -- lots of links relating to NSW -- and supported by Rugby
League star Brad Fittler no less!
Family Acceptance -- a very nice site put up by an American father and mother on having
a gay son.
The Gay & Lesbian Self-Esteem Book by Kimeron Hardin, Ph. D. (Oakland, New Harbinger
Publications 1999) is in the area of cognitive behavioural therapy, unexciting but sound; it
covers quite a lot of things rather well, I think. You can get a good idea of it from this lengthy
digest offered by the publishers.
Mogenic--Australian site for and about young gays, but not in any way pornographic.
Includes some good advice and moving personal stories.
Facts not fancies on the risk of gay men being child molesters. Controversial issue, interesting thoughts.
Youth Suicide--especially gay youth.
AIDS awareness clock graphically shows just how big a world health problem this is. (URL
sent by a reader.)
Education, Literacy, Linguistics, and other teacher links
Sydney Boys High Site
Learning in a Culturally Diverse Society: DET Policy
Board of Studies NSW
HSC On-line
Tasmanian Department of Education English page--excellent resource.
The World Wide Web is Special for Teachers--another (US) teacher's comprehensive links.
Australian Education Site
Education Week (USA)
Fairtest.org -- fact sheets about different assessment issues
NSW Department of Education Discussion paper on selective schools entry -- a pdf file.
Coaching v Teaching: Just what is a fair go anyway? Rosie Williams, July 2002. An article
that I hadn't seen before.
Journal of Critical Pedagogy-- still there although no new journal since end of 1999. Some good provocative articles however.
Claire Siskin: Computer Assisted Language Learning
Journal of Media Literacy
Douglas Kellner: Media Literacies and Critical Pedagogy in a Multicultural Society"
Developing Critical Skills for the Internet
English Grammar Online: English (UK)
Introduction to functional grammar
The Multicultural Pavilion--American but useful
Racism No Way--supported by all Australian Departments of Education. A very rich source
for policies, teaching ideas in many KLAs, facts...
Internet TESL Journal
Dave's ESL Cafe for students and teachers.
TESOL Online--Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, USA.
ATESOL (Australia) Links Page
ERIC ESL Digests--ERIC is the most marvellous place to go for research digests on language
and education.
ERIC Multicultural Education Digests
ERIC Clearinghouse on Language and Linguistics
A Synthesis of Scholarship in Multicultural Education by Geneva Gay. A classic of its kind.
Standards magazine--Interesting articles on diversity, and very beautiful too.
Ten Common Fallacies about Bilingual Education
ERIC Digests by subject
ERIC: ESL and Gifted Students--of obvious relevance in this school.
Bryan Murphy, "Correcting Students' Writing"
TESL Journal --writing search--leads to the latest on teaching writing to ESL/NESB students.
Aboriginal Australia: The Stolen Generation Report.
The ATSIC Aboriginal Site: body representing Aboriginal Australians.
Dharawal People and history of Sutherland Shire.
Australian Cultural Network News.
About Chinese Culture
Mandarin Tools: Chinese language and culture.
Sinologic--another Chinese cultural and language site.
Have fun and profit from this On-line English-Chinese Dictionary
Australian Broadcasting Corporation for news and more.
SBS World News: great Aussie service.
News Trove -- all the news searches you would ever want.
New Internationalist for a decent non-Eurocentric non-USA perspective on the world.
Amnesty International
UNHCR
Human Rights Watch for another sharp eye on world events.
The Korean Herald--Seoul English-language newspaper site. Can be very interesting, and
you might do a search on "education", or "youth"...
The Economist
The Atlantic Monthly--quality writing
Salon.com: quality.--quality writing | 
