[etni] Re: Geocities will disappear.

  • From: liron perlmutter <lironmp@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jackpil@xxxxxxx, ETNI <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:30:24 +0300

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
>
>
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