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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags culture & how-to

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.

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 others
a 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

Adding meaning and value to information

what we do with information that might make it useful and desirable to others

Sequence Analysis

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by a teacher, great handout for students on how to analyze a film sequence

cin-o-matic

by 2 others
in an easily scannable, filterable, and sortable format, users are quickly able to see what movies may interest them

Wayfaring

by 26 others
Create a map of your life* Build a map for your event* Make a travelogue* Create a map with photos and videos

walking as knowing as making

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

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.

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Like 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

independentfilms.org

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for and about independent films and filmmakers

June 2006