22 November 2006 16:00
soundtoys.net -
ejournal; interactive web soundtoys, artworks and related texts
Jo’s Toolkit for grassroots and student journalists
tips and links for lots of aspects of the media, both print and visual
Vispo ~ Langu(im)age: interactive, visual, and sound poetry by Jim Andrews
theory and examples, with links to other artists
22 November 2006 15:00
Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing - lifehack.org
by 22 otherssimple, intuitive, thought provoking tips that really work
StorySprawl Hyperfiction Story Creator
ongoing fiction sites that readers can contribute chapters to
Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.
21 November 2006 22:00
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.
21 November 2006 21:00
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."
21 November 2006 00:00
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 23:00
iberry.com -- The academic porthole
publicly available courseware (lecture notes, handouts, slides, tutorial material, exam questions, quizzes, videos, demonstrations etc) from the world's universities, colleges and other educational institutes; other educational resources
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
by 20 otherssuch things as i-pod handouts for folks who get one as a christmas gift
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
Pajiba - Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People
by 2 othersmovie and tv review site, very current, well written, various authors
20 November 2006 22:00
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
photos you likebetter: you are what you like
a charming game in which you pick which of two photos you like the best, supposedly revealing something about you
20 November 2006 20:00
Fixings Shadows - Still Photography
work of individual photographers and photographs of historical and ethnographic interest and value, including a section on found photos
Conversations with Dina
post on how students did visual ethnography using Flickr and the tags people put there
20 November 2006 19:00
Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
by 4 othersportal to essays, museums, art work web reproductions
20 November 2006 18:00
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
