public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags learning & identity

01 December 2006

Lateral Thinking Problems - Preconceptions

The site poses problems in lateral or logical thinking, from easy to hard, with both hints and answers. Great party conversation and something kids will like.

21 November 2006

Adding meaning and value to information

what we do with information that might make it useful and desirable to others

Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University

Geography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.

GEO 101 World Human Geography

very evocative discussion guides for students doing exercises in and thinking about a wide variety of physical and cultural spaces; writers can gets lots of ideas from this course and its notes

20 November 2006

Listology: "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

lists like this give me ideas of what to look for in the library; the whole idea of "listology" is whacky and fun

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

Thich Nhat Hahn

many links to this philosopher's writings on the web

Zensufi Park

Zen/sufi stories help those with writer's block or pinned down to traditional narrative arcs

ZEN

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

06 November 2006

02 November 2006

walking as knowing as making

a concept of walking = knowledge building sensorially; bibliography of readings linked to here