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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags learning & design

01 December 2006

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

Art, Design, and Visual Thinking

by 3 others
a basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin

Gene Pool

by 2 others
a science game: "a virtual Darwinian aquarium .. you initiate a primordial soup, and .. check up on what Virtual Mother Nature is up to - about every 15 min. (or every few days)"

28 November 2006

HHMI's BioInteractive

by 1 other
excellent 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.

26 November 2006

24 November 2006

22 November 2006

Sharpening 101

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

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

ArtLex Art Dictionary

by 3 others
search, arranged in alphabetical order, large number of terms

18 November 2006

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

Visual thinking school on Squidoo

by 1 other
basic 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.

14 November 2006

Puzzle JumpStation - Links to Puzzles on the Web

visual computer puzzles; if you have kids at your house or visiting, this will keep them busy for hours; levels from easy to difficult

13 November 2006

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

11 November 2006

43 Folders

by 50 others
personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better; check out "classics"; good for grad students who need to organize gettting through and out earning a real living

ZEN

by 4 others
a meditative site that quietly provides a new way to experience sound, image, temporality, space, and body

Boohbah Zone

by 1 other
delightful interactive flash animation; if you have children or kids in the house, they will love this

The Getty

museum site has many important photography exhibits, some with audio commentary

Overview Map "digital enlightenment: research"

a visual map, with links, of how to use metasites for knowledge acquisition, research, and reading online; author has other such maps on his site; useful for students as mode of presenting info and for info itself.

06 November 2006

02 November 2006

31 October 2006

if:book

by 3 others
a blog from the Institute for the Future of the Book, where much interesting work on screen reading and publication is going on