01 December 2006
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
by 3 othersa basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin
28 November 2006
James Elkins - Syllabi
many of this teacher's lectures on art, visual culture, and social issues are here, along with his syllabi
26 November 2006
media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages
"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."
Links to cultural studies syllabi
from the Cultural Studies L site, a listerv and a source of other resources as well
activelearning strategies
a philosophy of education that relies on simulations, role plays, real world activities; practical tips and bibliography
21 November 2006
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
20 November 2006
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
Conversations with Dina
post on how students did visual ethnography using Flickr and the tags people put there
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
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research
18 November 2006
New Media Courses by Trebor Scholz
many courses, large site
Dave Harris and Colleagues
large collection of work, lectures, course materials in media studies, leisure studies, sociology
RCCS: Course List of Cyberculture Studies
Site is a center of such studies; course list regularly updaged
Dr Daniel Chandler's UWA Home Page
extensive website of visual semiotician, with course outlines, online papers, and an interesting links page
Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog: The Intro Textbook: A Comparison
an entry in a film blog that I like that compares and contrasts the Film 101 textbooks commonly used
16 November 2006
06 November 2006
Internet resources for course on web art production
links to theory, artists sites, institutional resources, good sites for tutorials, and ejournals on/for web art
Photoethnography.com
links to courses compiled by Karen Nakamura, who notes that most courses in Visual Anthropology teach visual analysis and not visual production
Teaching Art in the Context of Everyday Life
a useful essay for all production teachers who want students to see the world around them anew
Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry
Course outline and reading list for fine arts course on landscape photography; excellent bibliography; will require a trip to the photography books section of a fine arts library
31 October 2006
Dr. Helena Sheehan / Home Page
much material on her media and society courses, including powerpoint lectures
David Gauntlett, Professor of Media and Communications, University of Westminster
homepage with many interesting links by prolific scholar
