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.
A List Apart: Primer
by 3 otherstips on a variety of aspects of web sites for new designers and web site owners
Zoom In Online: the internet video channel providing essential info on media & entertainment
business and technology for media artists; many interesting perspectives and tech histories
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.
Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed
by 4 othersa librarian teaches you about the dark web; originally written 2001, updated Oct. 2006
Jo’s Toolkit for grassroots and student journalists
tips and links for lots of aspects of the media, both print and visual
Article - At Home and Abroad: Some Views from the Avant-Garde on DVD by Daryl Chin
some tips on good avant garde films you can now buy on DVD
Adding meaning and value to information
what we do with information that might make it useful and desirable to others
The Digital Journalist November 2006 Issue Contents
monthly online magazine; wonderful examples of documentary photography
Sequence Analysis
by 1 otherby a teacher, great handout for students on how to analyze a film sequence
Third Coast International Audio Festival // Chicago Public Radio
one of the best sources for audio documentaries; here also are many how-to sessions
cin-o-matic
by 2 othersin an easily scannable, filterable, and sortable format, users are quickly able to see what movies may interest them
Teaching Art in the Context of Everyday Life
a useful essay for all production teachers who want students to see the world around them anew
walking as knowing as making
a concept of walking = knowledge building sensorially; bibliography of readings linked to here
Hack your way out of writer’s block
witty and perhaps even useful
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance"; tips for screenwriters looking for ideas
October 2006
Kate Bornstein's Blog for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws: The Voice Lesson
"Kate Bornstein in a slide show version of "The Voice Lesson," a trans-positive, feminist, funny look at how women are expected to talk." Makes good use of audio as unique medium for exposition of this content. Example of how audio slide show works.
September 2006
One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence.
by 1 otherLike one of my favorite sites, postsecrets, this has a kind of documentary wit that resides in brevity and style.
July 2006
MemoryMiner - Digital Storytelling Software - Software
"Photos as individual frames in an endless story board, allowing sound, video, documents and URLs added to each frame. "
Audio documentary by Chuck Kleinhans
much radio documentary and many audio archives focus on first person narration
June 2006
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