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
22 November 2006
George Mason's Nonfiction Universe: a resource for nonfiction writer and nonfiction teachers
lots of material useful for documentary film, blogging, autobiography
www.somedancersandmusicians.com
includes net pieces, short essays on art, quicktime movies
Scenes of Provincial Life
a vblog diary from someone who has a good eye and lives in a picturesque environment
21 November 2006
Travel Photos - The Great Mirror
"a large and sprawling collection of photographs of cultural or humanized landscapes. The images are arranged geographically and are narratively sequenced and captioned to reflect the interests of a geographer."
Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview
longstanding and well maintained site by Internet humanities pioneer, George P. Landow. Organized by country and by conceptual approaches. Courses linked to. Useful internal search engine.
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
Research on Place and Space
by 1 otherhuge portal site, across disciplines; "...other terms are sometimes used in place of place, such as home, dwelling, milieu, territory, and of course, space. None of these, though, are necessarily equivalent to the notion of place."
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
American Scientist Online - The Sounds of Spacetime
physicists are finding a way to listen in
Visual Anthropology Review
online journal
Fixings Shadows - Still Photography
work of individual photographers and photographs of historical and ethnographic interest and value, including a section on found photos
Visualising Ethnography
gateway site with links, courses, intereviews, tips
Conversations with Dina
post on how students did visual ethnography using Flickr and the tags people put there
Visual Anthropology Papers
many full text papers available from visualnathropology.net
Visual Culture and the Contemporary City
extensive course lectures with special attention to Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin's concepts, especially Benjamin on the flaneur.
Visual Rhetoric
extensive course materials
Modern Ruins, Photographic Essays - Shaun and Wendy O'Boyle
Traces, in the sense of Walter Benjamin's Arcades project, mark visual culture and always tell a story, if we take the time to notice
Photo Essays in Black and White by Herman Krieger
views of vernacular architecture and everyday use in small towns; from Eugene Oregon
Enculturation 3.2: Visual Rhetoric
2001 issue of online journal
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research
culture.info - sharing knowledge for culture - visual
the visual page from a large European web portal for arts professionals; another page is for media
American Lesbian Photography - Home
"aim is to provide an overview over those lesbian photographers that took pictures of lesbians, and .. to discuss their photography in relation to the time in which they worked"
