About e-rudite.resources

To be erudite is to "have great knowledge or learning". (Oxford Australian School Dictionary and Thesaurus, OUP, 2002.)

                   

What you will find in e-rudite are the results of over thirty years of successful teaching English to HSC students in NSW. This experience includes

·         HSC marking

·         HSC Advice Line

·         a significant period on the Council of The English Teachers' Association of NSW

·         many courses and conferences

·         membership in The English Teachers' Association (NSW).

e-rudite is also the result of a life long love of the subject of English - in all its breadth and depth - and a desire to encourage students

·         to understand and take pleasure in what they read, see and hear,

·         to maximise their outcomes in English, and

·         to take their knowledge and skills into their post HSC lives.

e-rudite HSC is our way of putting HSC support online. Students can get an experienced teacher's advice online and students can give feedback so that what's on offer meets all student needs.

A note about hyperlinked resources:

We have tried to provide hyperlinks to sites that are educational and/or authoritative. Sites that are heavily tied to advertising or pop-ups or make obvious requests for money are avoided.

We have some obvious preferences including www.wikipedia.org and www.abc.net.au.

 Acknowledgements

      For knowledge about e-learning

• UTS: Diploma in e-learning 2006; tutor: Anne Bartlett - Bragg

• Tony Burch of www.BurchED.com.au

•       George Papadeas, IT consultant

The techie stuff - if I can do it, so can you!

• GoDaddy.com for hosting facilities and their great notes for the novice - also cheap as.

      http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp

• W3 for information about site design and standards - the world authority on standards in IT.

      http://www.w3.org

• Your HTML Source for supporting information and tutorials on web design

      http://www.yourhtmlsource.com

•      Pictures used on this site are from the Microsoft Clipart Gallery:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-gb          

• School Icons for the notepad graphic that appears on all the pages - very simple and cute.

http://www.schoolicons.com/eng/web/backgrnds/backgrnd_e.html

• Free software from Wordpress for creating a blog - I liked the name, being an English teacher.

http://www.wordpress.com/

• Stats Counter, a free tool that has enable me to follow the use of the site and to check what people are looking for when they get here

http://www.statcounter.com/

• FeedBurner for allowing you to get feeds from the blog and keep up to date

http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home

• Oxford University Press and AskOxford.com for allowing people to attach a search function to their website

http://www.askoxford.com/contactus/searchtool/?view=uk

  Judy Embrey

Eastlakes, NSW

        

  January 2007