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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags tips & culture

01 December 2006

Black Film Research Online

good discussion of Black film in Chicago; also a large section on how to do Black film research on the Internet

No More Marriages!: Welcome To The Film Criticism Blog-a-Thon!

Andy Hobal's film blog runs a carnival on film criticism; the film bloggers run many blogathons and garner good accumulated comments

Edward Tufte home site

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lots here from a major figure in information graphics; especially interesting are many entries in section, "Ask E.T."

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.

Lists of Bests

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again, I am fascinated by lists of bests, especially as related to literature; they comprise both an ideology of the canon and a sociology of popular tastes, a la Bourdieu; in an extended form, they comprise much of amazon.com

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed

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a librarian teaches you about the dark web; originally written 2001, updated Oct. 2006

26 November 2006

activelearning strategies

a philosophy of education that relies on simulations, role plays, real world activities; practical tips and bibliography

22 November 2006

Jo’s Toolkit for grassroots and student journalists

tips and links for lots of aspects of the media, both print and visual

21 November 2006

Adding meaning and value to information

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

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

19 November 2006

Open Source Radio Show

"Every time we have an idea for an hour of radio we post it to the site." Via blog viewers help build shows which air after research.

18 November 2006

ZoneZero: from analog to digital photography

a large socially committed ejournal, edited by Pedro Meyer, one of the pioneers in digital photographic art; galleries, essays, investigations into image circulation and production within digital communication, especially the Internet

16 November 2006

Sequence Analysis

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by a teacher, great handout for students on how to analyze a film sequence

creativebits | mac design community

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a professional blog and community site for graphic designers working on Mac OS X

15 November 2006

13 November 2006

Wayfaring

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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

Владимир Гвоздев и gvozdariki

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check out witty animations from a Russian animator, simple, elegant