Hello Jack, I use www.100webspace.com to host my website. I'm very happy with it. I build my own html files and I upload them via Fillezilla FTP. They have a wonderful support sevice that will answer any question in five minutes day or night. I hope this helps. Liron. 2009/7/11 Jack Pillemer <jackpil@xxxxxxx> > Hi ETNIANs > Most of you will not see this being on vacation but anyway... > I have just received a notice that Geocities - Yahoo's free web hosting > facilities - will be closing down on October 26th 2009 . We will not be > able to access information on the web which has been uploaded onto these > geocities sites. This no doubt will affect many of us. > > For me personally, it is a major blow as almost everything I have ever > written for my own teaching purposes to be shared with others is up there on > my site > http://www.geocities.com/jackpillemer > I use it as my own personal "storeroom" and I know that other > teachers/pupils/passersby also pop in from time to time and take what they > wish. > > I'm not sure if I will have the time or the energy to copy the whole site > (about 200 files) to another host. I do not know if I want to pay to have > the site hosted. I'm not sure yet what this all entails. > > I generally created html files and parallel Word doc files so it would be > easy to simply take the material and use as is or adapt. If you have used > material from the site and didn't download it onto your own computer, and > wish to use that material again, I suggest you do so before it disappears. > Here is a list of what you can find. Of course link leads to link and you > will have to surf off the main page to find the actual files. > > English teacher as civic educator - I prepared this for a teachers workshop > and never used the material myself on my pupils. On looking at the work I > did, I realise how useful it might be and how relevent it is even though it > was based on elections a while back. > > The Lyrics Project - almost always works well > > English through Art Project - demanding - high level but worth the > effort > > Reporting on Community Service "Mehuyavut Ishit" - a New Curriculum Project > for Grade X -. > Setting up English Rooms for Primary Schools in Netanya - A detailed report > on the project > > Theoretical paper on the use of e-mail in English teaching. > > Dead Poets' Society - using the movie to teach literature > > Time for a laugh - funny stuff to use for teaching > > Teaching English through Content-based instruction (CBI) focusing on Civics > - see part on Declaration of Israeli Independence > > Holocaust Memorial Day Activity for upper grades > > MECA - Middle East Children Association- some matrerial and ideas on > bringing Israeli and Palestinian teachers and pupils closer > > Boyar High school English site- some of the new material on the school > site may also disappear as it is linked to the Geocities site > > Romeo and Juliet - This detailed program for teaching the play is on ETNI > so it will not disappear > > Jack Pillemer > > > ----------------------------------------------- > ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org > or - http://www.etni.org.il ** > ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** > ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** > ----------------------------------------------- > > -- http://lironenglish.100webspace.net ×?×?ר×?×?, ×?×?ר×?×?. ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------