December 2006
Lateral Thinking Problems - Preconceptions
The site poses problems in lateral or logical thinking, from easy to hard, with both hints and answers. Great party conversation and something kids will like.
Edward Tufte home site
by 4 otherslots here from a major figure in information graphics; especially interesting are many entries in section, "Ask E.T."
November 2006
Visuarios: broadcast your skills
how-to videos or, more commonly, audio/slideshows; useful rhetorically for both technical writing and instructional video learning; web2.0 sharing of video that is perhaps instructionally more useful than YouTube.
Writing Demonstrations
interactive demonstrations of Conducting Electronic Searches; useful both for the information contained and as a demo of web design and writing instructional media in a library context; the larger site is a resource for writers.
Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing - lifehack.org
by 22 otherssimple, intuitive, thought provoking tips that really work
Morgans Office :: biro.bemidjistate.edu | Office / HomePage
very interestingly designed home page of rhetoric teacher, in the form of a wkik; lots of discussion of teaching, new media, softeware
Visual Rhetoric
extensive course materials
Poynter Online - Writing Tools
50 writing tools, a quick list; we can all benefit from these
Word Circuits
"This is a place for poetry and fiction born to pixels rather than the page--writing that's digital down to its bones." An excellent resource with both online poetry, often Flash poetry, and other links.
Zensufi Park
Zen/sufi stories help those with writer's block or pinned down to traditional narrative arcs
October 2006
vitia
well written, much about pedagogy and digital culture, blogging
The New Face of Learning
"In an environment where it's easy to publish to the globe, it feels more and more hollow to ask students to "hand in" their homework to an audience of one. When we're faced with a flattening world where collaboration is becoming the norm, forcing student
June 2006
Kairosnews | A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy
by 3 othersimportant site for teachers of writing
bgblogging--barbara ganley
important and well written edublog. "An active implementer of new media and social software into literature and writing classrooms, my special interests include digital storytelling as a means of academic discourse and integrated web technologies as a veh
Weblogs: Learning in Public
essay Jill Walker, pioneer in newmedia in education
teach and learn
8th grade teacher who incorporates blogging; substantive discussions of the learning processes as enhanced by blog writing
CultureCat | Rhetoric and Feminism
by 1 otherone of the most important edubloggers, engaging and well written blog
Michael Farris Blog
useful annotated bibliography of his research materials
~dmueller
useful collection of materials
May 2006
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