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.
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
Low Probability of Racoons - Hypertext and Flash animated poems
uses the duration of video to make kinetic poetry that has a narrative in the words and beyond them; nice example for students of simple form with complex effects
Knowing Knowledge
useful summary by George Siemens of his ideas from new book; educators need to rethink all ideas about knowledge, education, and learning for young people growing up in the Internet era
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
October 2006
Blogs for Learning
"provide information and resources surrounding the technical, legal, and pedagogical aspects of blogging in the classroom"
The Learning Circuits Blog: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging?
This question prompted a large round of comments, roundups, later reflections.
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
Lesson Plans for Digital Storytelling
this is a lesson plan that could be adapted for different ages or kinds of classes, e.g., composition or video production or narrative arts
Teaching Writing in the Space of Blackboard
Since many teachers use Blackboard, this is useful to them in analyzing how students negotiate aspects of that site and its technologies.
July 2006
DVDBeaver.com - Eclectic Cinema and Digital Versatile Discs - DVD - all regions, reviews, comparisons, film
useful roundup and coverage of DVDs from all regions
Surftrail: Anders Fagerjord's Blog
attractively designed blog tracing the thinkers the author found useful in areas of internet and blog theory, as well as other conceptual pursuits, categorized on the left side of the page
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