The value of education

http://www.dothegreenthing.com/stories/34495_story_from_robertlesliefielding

Scottish Natural Heritage

'WRITE TO THINK'

A book of activities to help undergraduate students develop their thinking skills whilst improving their writing.

Robert L. Fielding

AN OUTLINE

with

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter headings

Sample chapter

Resources

www.writingintothinking.blogspot.com

Storytelling

"A story is told eye to eye, mind to mind, and heart to heart."

Scottish proverb

http://www.timeout.com/edinburgh/attractions/venue/1%3A12315/scottish-storytelling-centre-john-knox-house

Informal Writing - Preparation

http://whatsnewintheworld.blogspot.com/2010/06/informal-writing-and-preparation.html

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

READ SOME OF MY OWN CREATIVE WRITING

IN

UGRU JOURNAL

http://www.ugr.uaeu.ac.ae/acads/ugrujournal/spring2010creativewriting.shtml

DISCUSSING AND THINKING

using

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

#1

GREEN ISSUES

The Quiet Revolution

http://thequietrevolution.webs.com/

A land ethic - Aldo Leopold

http://www.dothegreenthing.com/stories/33281_story_from_robertlesliefielding

What we have lost - D. H. Lawrence

http://www.dothegreenthing.com/stories/33282_story_from_robertlesliefielding

Environmental ethics - Rachel Carson

http://www.dothegreenthing.com/stories/13791_rachel_carson_and_environmental_ethics

Just so much and no more - Donella Meadows

http://www.dothegreenthing.com/stories/33283_story_from_robertlesliefielding

How we look at Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://www.dothegreenthing.com/stories/33284_story_from_robertlesliefielding

Getting and spending - William Wordsworth

http://www.dothegreenthing.com/stories/33292_story_from_robertlesliefielding

Competing in excellence - Thomas Hurka

http://www.dothegreenthing.com/stories/33544_story_from_robertlesliefielding

The good life - Henry David Thoreau

http://www.dothegreenthing.com/stories/33556_story_from_robertlesliefielding

Learn to think critically

http://criticalthinking1949.webs.com/

View our holiday flat on the Med in S. Turkey

http://ourplaceinturkey.blogspot.com/2010/04/photos-of-our-lovely-flat-on-med.html

Writing to learn

http://www.rlfielding.com/exploratorywriting.htm

The artist

http://www.leodefreyne.com/

View the outline and sample chapters of my forthcoming great book

'LIFE WORKS'

http://pandoraslid.blogspot.com/

Make Poverty History

http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/

Respect English

http://www.rlfielding.com/respectenglish.htm

Blog

http://respectenglish.blogspot.com/

Do some work during the vacation -

CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW

http://www.rlfielding.com/thisweeksactivities.htm

My students - the 10-minute window is here

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/freewriting.htm

DRIVE SLOWLY - DRIVE SAFELY -

SAVE LIVES

Short short story competition $3,000 first prize

http://writersdigest.com/short

Read Gulf News Notes online

http://www.gulfnews.com/notes/

Find ways to be creative - go to Creativity Web

http://members.optusnet.com.au/charles57/Creative/index2.html

Creativity and You

http://creativityandyou.webs.com/

REDISCOVER YOUR TALENT - FIND YOUR REAL TALENT

http://findingyourrealtalent.webs.com/

New Look UGRU Journal

http://www.ugr.uaeu.ac.ae/acads/ugrujournal/index.shtml

CROSSWORDS GALORE

http://mycrosswordpage.webs.com/

Support the Earth – it has supported you since you were born –

and still does!

Earth Day Network - http://www.earthday.net/

Envirolink - http://earthday.envirolink.org/

Picture this – Earth Day 2009 - http://www.picturethis09.org/

Write English sentences for me

on

TWITTER

Start today - follow me!

http://twitter.com/

Brit Writers Awards

http://www.britwriters.co.uk/

Ginger

1993- 2009

Rest in peace, love!

Work hard! Be nice!

WRITER

&

LANGUAGE LECTURER

Listen to this great talk by Sir Ken Robinson

'Do schools kill creativity?'

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

and his talk on 'The Element'

http://www.thersa.org/events/vision/vision-videos/sir-ken-robinson-the-element

'Upon this gifted age, in its dark colour,

Rains from the sky a meteoric shower

Of facts …they lie unquestioned, uncombined.

Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill

Is daily spun; but there exists no loom

To weave it into fabric.'

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Is writing the loom to weave our wisdom into fabric?

Here is a possible answer -

http://heldtoaccount.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html#7563126296114786682

Scottish poetry link

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/poetryblog

Resources Archive of the 1st MENAWCA Conference

http://tcc.qatar.tamu.edu/1865.aspx

Listening for my students -

click on the link below then choose a talk to listen to

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks

Saudi Aramco World

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200303/

Please visit

United Arab Emirates University

WRITING CENTRE WEBSITE

http://www.ugr.uaeu.ac.ae/writing_centre/index.shtml

MY VIRTUAL WRITING CENTRE

http://www.freewebs.com/myvirtualwritingcentre/

MY VIRTUAL LIBRARY

Where you can get all kinds of help with your writing and your reading too!

http://www.freewebs.com/myvirtuallibrary/

MY INDEPENDENT LEARNING CENTRE

http://www.freewebs.com/independentlearningcentre/

WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

http://www.freewebs.com/writingacrossthecurriculum/

LINKS TO MY BOOKS AND MY WRITING

'GINGER'S TAIL'

(Travelling by cat)

&

'OTHER PEOPLE-OTHER WORLDS'

(A collection of short stories, sketches and monologues)

Available @

http://www.amazon.com/

&

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/

READ MY BLOGS

'LIFE WORKS' - AN OUTLINE

http://pandoraslid.blogspot.com/

For students

http://www.whatsnewintheworld.blogspot.com

This blogsite contains most of my current writing for learners of English, and for teachers of it.

For readers generally

http://www.fascinatingfillers.blogspot.com

This blogsite showcases the different styles and genres in my writing

For people who like travelling

http://www.geneticallyunmodifieddiaries.blogspot.com

This blogsite includes my travel writing

For people who like cats

http://acatsjournal.blogspot.com

This blogsite is a serialised form of my first book

FOR MY STUDENTS

INTERNET CLASSROOM ASSISTANT (ICL)

Share what YOU are doing with me and your classmates

Join A Class

GET WRITING NOW

www.nicenet.org

A first for me

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhubarb_rhubarb

Philosophy Resource Centre

http://radicalacademy.com/studentrefphil.htm

Try listening to some things on this site.

Click here:- http://www.elllo.org/index.htm

Or try this - British Council Listening

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-skills-listening.htm

For Lisa Barlow, may God bless her

and may she rest in peace.

Rest in peace, Brian Milloy

Poetry pages of Elizabeth Thomas

www.upwordspoetry.com

Music to start your day - Kathleen Ferrier singing

'Orfeo ed Euridice'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2cmIFpUQQY&feature=related

Short stories for my students in Level 3

Click on the link below - read the next part of the story - coming soon!

Read the excellent endings that were written by some of my best students.

http://storiesforstudents.blogspot.com/

Write about what you think will happen next.

Send me your ideas to

www.nicenet.org

WORLD FOOD DAY

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/world_food_crisis/?ito=1691&itc=0

Read about the Gulf News initiative

on reducing the use of plastic bags in UAE malls and supermarkets

http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Environment/10247812.html

The International Day of Peace “is meant to be a day of global cease-fire, when all countries and all people stop all hostilities for the entire day. And it is a day on which people around the world observe a minute of silence at 12 noon local time. […]And let us pledge to do our utmost to carry out the important decisions on peace taken by last week’s 2005 World Summit.”

	-- Kofi Annan -- United Nations Secretary-General 21 September 2005