03 December 2006
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31 articles on instructional web technology
02 December 2006
Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts
subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online
01 December 2006
kamera.co.uk what's new
online film magazine with an independent, often European focus
Most Popular Posts from Quick Online Tips
by 1 otherkept updated, an important factor in Interent software hints; I use these often
BBC - collective - the interactive culture magazine
by 4 othersa social networking site in which BBC offers cultural reviews, with clips, and readers comment or write alternative reviews; readers also submit own reviews
Media Art Net | Sitemap
English site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet
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
AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web
by 1 othernarrative+history+pictures+encyclopedia; "safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest"
Flickhead
online film journal, offbeat and cult as well as international film covered
artists and art...the-artists.org
by 1 otherextended visual, biographical, and textual database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists
Visual dictionary
by 3 othersjust 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 othersa basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin
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.
Dr. Chris Mullen, The Visual Telling of Stories, illustration, design, film, narrative sequences, magazines, books, prints etc
by 1 othera very large historical archive, often from advertising, "to provide for all levels of possible viewer a visually orientated taxonomy of the ways in which pictures are used to tell stories." unique collection, also useful for many other purposes
Mojiti-video commentary software
by 11 othersuseful for teachers making clips to analyze in class; "personalize any video with your story. With visual spotlights, you can narrate your personal videos, add captions or subtitles, or comment on any scene."
pixer.us :: online photo editor
by 17 othersI have not tried it yet but am interested in the arrival of word processing, video editing, and photo editing tools to the web. This one has an intuitive interface.
26 November 2006
22 November 2006
ArtLex on New Media
entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful
Sharpening 101
by 1 otheran explantion of what sharpening in Photoshop does and the theory behind it, plus workarounds
George Mason's Nonfiction Universe: a resource for nonfiction writer and nonfiction teachers
lots of material useful for documentary film, blogging, autobiography
self portraits -- imagining ourselves
you can contribute your own picture, a sketch, painting.
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
