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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags design & tools

01 December 2006

Digital Web Magazine

by 33 others
see Nov. 27 06 and earlier, "The Rise of Flash Video" by Tom Green; many articles of interest to both designers and theorists in this ejournal

AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web

by 1 other
narrative+history+pictures+encyclopedia; "safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest"

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

Visual dictionary

by 3 others
just what it says, a dictionary but in pictures; kids will love it; a good way for learning English as a second language

27 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.

SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards

March 06; useful discursive comparison by judges of top contenders in each of many categories, which rhetorically can be used to teach students how to write about the Internet; sizeable honorable mention lists

Google Page Creator

by 4 others
google tool for helping a person create their own web page and store it free online; very simple interface

Office 2.0 Database

by 41 others
Oct 06 list of numerous web2.0 apps related to office functions, plus links to reviews of them, when available.Effort to have all apps be on web and not desktop, including photo, sound, and video editing, web publishing, drawing.

Mojiti-video commentary software

by 11 others
useful for teachers making clips to analyze in class; "personalize any video with your story. With visual spotlights, you can narrate your personal videos, add captions or subtitles, or comment on any scene."

Google Help : Cheat Sheet

by 32 others
one page of tips to remind you of search protocols on Google

24 November 2006

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.

FindSounds - Search the Web for Sounds

by 41 others, 1 comment
search the web for material for your soundmixes; various file formats and sampling rates can be specified

22 November 2006

Sharpening 101

by 1 other
an explantion of what sharpening in Photoshop does and the theory behind it, plus workarounds

StorySprawl Hyperfiction Story Creator

ongoing fiction sites that readers can contribute chapters to

21 November 2006

What Can We Do With Flickr? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

how to create hotspots with popup notes on Flickr. Very useful for image analysis and assignment requiring students to comment on social aspects or formal aspects of image; or to formally critique them.

20 November 2006

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

by 20 others
such things as i-pod handouts for folks who get one as a christmas gift

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

19 November 2006

Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide

by 79 others
blog; always something interesting here about software or web sites that could be useful