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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags academic & learning

01 December 2006

Art, Design, and Visual Thinking

by 3 others
a basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin

27 November 2006

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed

by 4 others
a librarian teaches you about the dark web; originally written 2001, updated Oct. 2006

26 November 2006

activelearning strategies

a philosophy of education that relies on simulations, role plays, real world activities; practical tips and bibliography

24 November 2006

21 November 2006

Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University

Geography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.

GEO 101 World Human Geography

very evocative discussion guides for students doing exercises in and thinking about a wide variety of physical and cultural spaces; writers can gets lots of ideas from this course and its notes

20 November 2006

ArtLex Art Dictionary

by 3 others
search, arranged in alphabetical order, large number of terms

Connectivism Blog

by 1 other
a new theory of education and learning, for a digital Internet culture

18 November 2006

JEP - The Journal of Electronic Publishing

many of the past issues were on thematic concerns; ever of greater importance in academic and knowledge communities is the how-to of electronic publishing

16 November 2006

12 November 2006

Postmodern Thought

by 1 other
contemporary theory, critical theory, cultural theorists

11 November 2006

Overview Map "digital enlightenment: research"

a visual map, with links, of how to use metasites for knowledge acquisition, research, and reading online; author has other such maps on his site; useful for students as mode of presenting info and for info itself.

09 November 2006

Teaching resources links

a wide variety of intriguing paths to follow, listed alphabetically; a interesting way to set up a links page, although I prefer annotations

02 November 2006

walking as knowing as making

a concept of walking = knowledge building sensorially; bibliography of readings linked to here

18 October 2006

Martin Ryder

extensive links in and coverage of topics around the sociology of knowledge

17 October 2006

16 October 2006

06 October 2006

Internet Public Library:

by 1 other
links listed in "subject areas" selected at left of screen

05 October 2006