01 December 2006
AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web
by 1 othernarrative+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"
Visual dictionary
by 3 othersjust what it says, a dictionary but in pictures; kids will love it; a good way for learning English as a second language
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
by 3 othersa basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin
28 November 2006
HHMI's BioInteractive
by 1 otherexcellent science site with explanations and many visuals; interesting site design
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.
Mojiti-video commentary software
by 11 othersuseful 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."
24 November 2006
H2O Playlist: UDL and Web 2.0: Confronting the Drunk Librarian
considering Web 2.0 in the context of Internet useability for people with disabilities
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
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
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
by 1 othervery well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers
19 November 2006
Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide
by 79 othersblog; always something interesting here about software or web sites that could be useful
Cabinet Magazine Online -
a quarterly journal of art, design, culture; partly playful, some art, some scholarly essays; good mix of specific reviews and overviews
18 November 2006
A History of Photography to the 1920s
complete book online
JEP - The Journal of Electronic Publishing
many of the past issues were on thematic concerns; ever of greater importance in academic and knowledge communities is the how-to of electronic publishing
16 November 2006
Sequence Analysis
by 1 otherby a teacher, great handout for students on how to analyze a film sequence
The History Place - Child Labor in America
online collection of Lewis W. Hine photos
lens culture: contemporary photography magazine
by 4 othersPhotographyy internationally: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, lyrical, personal, abstract, human, and street photography. Essays, interviews with photographers, reviews of exhibitions and photo books.
Illusion Works
illusionary effects, demonstrations, and artwork
The Eye Page
an exploration of eye structures in nature
Visual thinking school on Squidoo
by 1 otherbasic concepts broken down into useful small steps, with many visual examples to guide process. Web 2.0 in that it provides for interaction and author's introduction to sections.
13 November 2006
www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site
large site, attractive new design as of 11/06. essays, links, delving into popular culture and playing with it, theoretical explorations and savvy; highly recommended
"We"--with the words of Arundhati Roy
a 64-minute Internet documentary made anonymously in New Zealand, using Roy's speech and a montage of politically inflected imagery; new style of essayistic documentary; DVD at hi-res available
