Knock for Fun Shop Musicovery The History of English - How New Words Are Created The drift of word meanings over time often arises, often but not always due to catachresis (the misuse, either deliberate or accidental, of words). By some estimates, over half of all words adopted into English from Latin have changed their meaning in some way over time, often drastically. For example, smart originally meant sharp, cutting or painful; handsome merely meant easily-handled (and was generally derogatory); bully originally meant darling or sweetheart; sad meant full, satiated or satisfied; and insult meant to boast, brag or triumph in an insolent way. A more modern example is the changing meaning of gay from merry to homosexual (and, in some circles in more recent years, to stupid or bad). Some words have changed their meanings many times. Some words have become much more specific than their original meanings. Some words came to mean almost the complete opposite of their original meanings.
Top 10 Best Websites to download free Music Music has always been very close to our souls when its about expressing our emotions. We all love listening to songs, in happiness, during sad moments, when we are anxious, when we are in love, and even more when love is lost. And its even better if we get all the music we need for FREE and without much trouble. By trouble, i mean, those irritating advertisements, pop-up windows, fake links and sign ups. So today we have a list of Top 10 best websites to download music for free and without those annoying ads and pop-ups. It's a website which will fulfill all your music needs. It's a 3 tier Web Service, which lets you search Music files over the Internet, lets you convert Video files to Audio using URL and also lets you convert local video and audio files to other formats, all this with an amazing sound quality. 2. emp3World This is a 10 year old website, and provides you with the best and latest songs for free. 3. mp3skull Most of you might already have used this one. 4. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Assess Student Project Work Techniques to evaluate progress and ensure success Project work challenges students to think beyond the boundaries of the classroom, helping them develop the skills, behaviors, and confidence necessary for success in the 21st-century. Designing learning environments that help students question, analyze, evaluate, and extrapolate their plans, conclusions, and ideas, leading them to higher–order thinking, requires feedback and evaluation that goes beyond a letter or number grade. The term “authentic assessment” is used to describe assessment that evaluates content knowledge as well as additional skills like creativity, collaboration, problem-solving, and innovation. Authentic assessment documents the learning that occurs during the project-building process and considers the real-world skills of collaboration, problem solving, decision making, and communication. Developing Assessment As you design the project, it is helpful to begin with the end in mind. Questions for Students Conclusion
Music A painting on an Ancient Greek vase shows a music lesson (about 510 BC) Music is a form of art; an expression of emotions through harmonic frequencies. Music is also a form of entertainment that puts sounds together in a way that people like, find interesting or dance to. Most music includes people singing with their voices or playing musical instruments, such as the piano, guitar, drums or violin. The word music comes from the Greek word (mousike), which means "(art) of the Muses". Definition of music[change | change source] Music is sound that has been organized by using rhythm, melody or harmony. There are four things which music has most of the time: Definitions[change | change source] There is no simple definition of music which covers all cases. These and other attempts, do not capture all aspects of music, or leave out examples which definitely are music. History[change | change source] Musicians of Amun, Tomb of Nakht, 18th Dynasty, Western Thebes Some animals also can use music.
Telescopic Text JPLAY | hi-end audio player for Windows prompts, lessons, and resources for writing classrooms muso.html Muso is a Windows software application, which acts as both a centralised information repository for your music collection, and an intuitive graphical user interface to allow you to browse your albums, tag them, filter them, and sort them in various flexible ways. Muso provides an alternative front end to your music player and allows you to experience a more meaningful interaction with your music collection. What muso isn't Muso is not a music player or playlist manager. There are many of these available already, with great features like wireless streaming to your hi-fi, bit-perfect output, graphic equalisers, stunning visualisers, smart playlists, and a myriad of plugins. Logitech Squeezebox devices - this is muso's preferred solution for streaming music to your hi-fi. So what's the point? Muso's development was driven by need. Frustrations with existing music players, managers and browsers influenced muso to include the following: Design Philosophy Licencing Support
Six Amazing Websites that Make Your Writing Stronger Long writing activities are not very frequently done in class. I tend to think that my students are like me; I need the right kind of atmosphere. Writing requires time, silence and lots of inspiration. Inspiration, the most important word when writing and something my students claim to lack. These are some great sites that can help you make your writing stronger. Photo by Tekke 1. Skell is easy to use. Search for a word or a phrase.Click on Examples to get the most presentable sentences containing this word.Click on Word sketch to get a list of words which occur frequently together with the searched word.Click on Similar words (not only synonyms) where you’ll find words used in similar contexts visualized with a word cloud. 2.Netspeak is a really helpful site to help you write better. You can find the word(s) you’re looking for by typing signs as seen in the picture below. Type ? If you want to read some sample sentences, you only need to click the + sign 3. 4. 5. 6.
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Plan a Better iMovie Trailer with These PDFs Here are a few trailers made by teachers and students. Next to each one is the iMovie trailer template it uses. My Dream Destination - Italy uses the Expedition template.Verbs uses the Superhero template.Properties of Ionic Compounds uses the Adrenaline template.The Giver Book Trailer uses the Adrenaline template.Project-Based Learning uses the Swashbuckler template.Stylus Status uses the Retro template. Because trailers are so short, the information you convey has to be concise. iMovie’s templates do not leave much room for text. And, the more you write, the smaller the text becomes and harder it is to read. iMovie provides an outline and storyboard for each template. To help plan trailers with more original text and shots, I’ve created a fillable PDF for each template. Each PDF is fillable, so you can open in an app like Adobe Reader or Preview and easily add your own text.