Bringing it all back home

This week's list is about historical people that you admire. "History" doesn't necessarily mean "a long time ago", but you shouldn't choose only people who are alive and popular now.

This week's list is about historical people that you admire. "History" doesn't necessarily mean "a long time ago", but you shouldn't choose only people who are alive and popular now.

I'm going to introduce a couple of useful sites to support your reading.

Movie Trailers on the Apple website is one of the best places to have fun while practicing listening. It's a good idea to watch the same trailer 4-5 times.

I believe it was Paul who posted a link to Essay Map. I tried it out briefly, and my first impression is that it will be a more suitable tool for introducing students to essay writing than full-blown mind mapping software.

You may have heard that WetPaint now has a free and ad-free option for educational use. This page offers a good illustration of some of the formatting options available

Whenever I remember, I use attaché to send emails with attachments, because this software includes automatically the full name of the attached file and its approximate size, whereas using the standard method with Apple Mail it's pretty much impossible to find the full name without opening the file or navigating to the Finder.

(Via Softpedia.)

Alan Levine has a nice fairly compact list of web 2.0 sites. Could be a good starting point when looking for a specific kind of site.