Free lecture notes and presentations

Free lectures, presentations and stuff. One of the best cyber study group! Still in the beta, though.

OpenSource Shakespeare - An Experiment in Literary Technology

OpenSource Shakespeare - An Experiment in Literary Technology is a collection of open source texts providing its users with a clean design and easy access to the 1864 Globe Edition of Shakespeare's complete works. Plays are organized by genre, by number of lines and the site also offers a character list and a character search feature. The Sonnets and Poems section facilitates sonnet-by-sonnet or side-by-side comparison viewing.

All texts have a print/save version, which looks even better than the online counterpart.

The Most Useful Tools?

All websites containing such lists claim that their selection is the best of the best. Undoubtedly, most people take the bait and start downloading applications or, in this case, signing up for free web services. This site contains a list of web tools that students could find useful, but also a lot of junk... Feel free to browse through the list of web apps and don't forget to check my blog on a regular basis for more free tools for students. Click HERE or on the TITLE!

The Internet Polyglot

The Internet Polyglot provides us with a great example of a CALL system. Funny games/tests on many topics: insurance, medical terms, etc. Just 21 for now but it looks promising!

WordNet

"WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing."
Click HERE to go to the WordNet® webpage!

Linguee.com/Linguee.de

... or the web as a dictionary! I haven't tested this yet, but it basically helps you to check terminology, phrases and sentences in a bilingual environment, i.e. English-German, German-English. Read the authors' description of this FREE service, test it and tell us what you think (use the "comment" option as, unfortunately, we won't have the chance to meet again in our translation/interpretation class this year):

"What is Linguee? With Linguee, you can search many millions of bilingual texts in English and German for words and expressions. Every expression is accompanied by useful additional information and suitable example sentences.
What is the benefit?When you translate texts to a foreign language, you usually look for common phrases rather than translations of single words. With its intelligent search and the significantly larger amount of stored text content, Linguee is the right tool for this task. You find:

• In what context a translation is used
• How frequent a particular translation is
• Example sentences: How have other people translated an expression?

By searching not only for a single word, but for a respective word in its context, you can easily find a translation that fits optimal in context. With its large number of entries, Linguee often retrieves translations of rare terms that you don't find anywhere else." (www.linguee.com)

The Phrase Finder

Does your dictionary suit your needs? Does it provide you with enough information on a certain word/phrase? If your answer is YES, then don't bother clicking on this link: The Phrase Finder.

The Master List of Free Online College Courses

Click HERE  to visit a collection of free online college classes available to the general public. 

Contents: 

   1. General Collections

   2. Math and Science

   3. History

   4. Arts and Humanities

   5. Business and Economics

The Arts and Humanities pages of Intute

Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists. There are over 21,000 Web resources listed here that are freely available by keyword searching and browsing.

Quick pick: E-Journals --- English.

LitSum: Free Literature Summaries and Study Guides

Litsum is a totally new alternative for free literature summaries! If you are looking for free book summaries or book notes, Litsum has more free literature summaries than any other site. Their literature study guides and enotes include full chapter summaries and analysis, topics for discussion, quotes, style, themes and character analysis. Litsum is probably the largest free literature summary website online! It is a great tool, but you should also consider reading the books. Otherwise, most study guides available on Litsum are useless!

A Great Tool for Students - Bartleby.com

Bartleby.com - one of the best internet publishers of literature offers free access to open domain texts. I strongly recommend: Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Columbia World of Quotations, Oxford Shakespeare, Gray's Anatomy, Strunk's Elements of Style and World Factbook.

Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online

The Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online is a great resource for all of us who want to improve our general vocabulary and understanding of specialized terminology.  The 15 major themes contain more than 6,000 images and see words like never before. Click HERE to watch a demo.

Get FREE Babylon license for EDUCATIONAL USE!

Good news for people in need of a translation software, but short on money. Babylon Ltd., provider of dictionary and translation solutions, started to give away free licenses for educational use. I joined in today and immediately got a reply. So give it a try. You may apply for a license of this handy translation tool to on this page .