I have many classroom resources,which others may be interested in too, including i) Edbiz blackline master books and other Edbiz textbooks stuff mostly for English, and of recent dates. ii. Website for Alternatilve Ideas to encourage everyone, including students, to use their brains for social innovating - working on ideas and projects to help solve social problems and improve the quality of life. http://www.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas run by ACSION, the Australian Centre for Social Innovations, (ie vy) This is linked with the British Institute for Social Inventions, which publishes annually, runs a competition, and has a slightly more 'pop' Website, Global Ideas Bank http://www.globalideasbank.org The UK ISI has been important in promoting many great ideas and projects that are now widely accepted, eg permaculture, conservation methods, natural dying, sustainable life-style, many community groups, Hippocratic Oath for scientists, Index of Quality of Life to compare with GDP, etc. In UK 'social inventing' workshops are popular in some schools, and the students then carry out their ideas to improve schools and local community life. It is popular in English studies, for students' reading, thinking and writing, instead of just practising writing fiction and advertising copy. iii. Literacy for secondary school students with reading problems. This includes an experimental cartoon video which gives an overview of the English writing system and what it helps to know to read and write, based on my lifetime's work as a psychologist supposed to diagnose 'dyslexics' who were basically just confused. It is too irreverent to get establishment support. At present I am breaking my heart and my finance trying to get a professional version made. Media students and schools might be interested in working on this project, as a way of promoting interest in print and how to read, among other things. iv. A houseful of books that are out of print. You might like to ring about what might be useful to you. 57 Waimarie Drive, Mount Waverley, 3149. Tel 9807-4315 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
