December 2006
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights - Yahoo! News
Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
November 2006
Imagining the Internet
by 1 otherpopular site from Pew Internet Project; allows people to make predictions, read predictions from the 90s; nice for kids
Video History Project: Resources
information from/about practitioners and groups of videomakers; technical explanations of early video formats and equipment
The Eye Page
an exploration of eye structures in nature
Center for History and New Media
by 1 otherextensive site, with resources about historical moments and syllabi, tools for Internet research, and projects undertaken by the Center
Internet history
by 1 otheron other pages, find history of other important Internet developments, such as Google and PayPal
Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources | OEDb
by 7 othersThe invisible web, or deep web, is estimated to be 500 times bigger than the searchable web and comprises databases and results of specialty search engines that the popular search engines can't index.
Fifty Ways to Take Notes
by 31 othersboth online and offline, include clippings or your own musings or both
Henry Jenkins: Eight Traits of the New Media Landscape
succinct and useful as an overview 11/06
McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto, version 4
edited version of essay
Cambridge in Colour - Digital Photography Tutorials
by 24 othersuseful how-to information, broken down into phases
Solution Watch - Your descriptive source of solutions
by 14 others, 1 comment"reviewing and providing in-depth walkthroughs of today’s best products and services"; valuable because of plethora of new Web 2.0 software; explanation of how to use it gives clues as to if you would want to try new software.
Teach and Learn Online
a large wiki network of people interested in all things eLearning, flexible delivery, online education, networked learning, and web 2.0
October 2006
Tracking Down Educators that Use Photo Sharing (flickr) | Teaching Hacks.com
aiding social networking and sharing of resources for using photography in education
howstuffismadeblog
manufacturing processes, labor conditions, and environmental issues involved in the production of contemporary goods
academhack
by 1 other"Tech should make teaching easier and more effective, not harder and more frustrating."
Main Page - ParticipatoryMedia
wiki for course on Participatory Media and Collective Action
September 2006
the complete idiot's [eejit's] guide to all aspects of filmmaking
clear and witty, useful for practitioners as refresher or for students, especially production teachers
July 2006
Clusty the Clustering Engine
by 56 othersThis is a top-notch new kind of search engine (Web 2.0). My test case for searches is "film theory" as the search term, and such a search brought me many new resources I was previously unaware of.
Teaching Generation Z
imaginative ideas on elearning
Academic Commons |
liberal arts teaching materials
