public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tag academic

26 November 2006

Mediascape

ejournal, interdisciplinary approaches to visual culture

activelearning strategies

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

24 November 2006

Writing Demonstrations

interactive demonstrations of Conducting Electronic Searches; useful both for the information contained and as a demo of web design and writing instructional media in a library context; the larger site is a resource for writers.

22 November 2006

DIGITALSOULS.COM - new media art | philosophy | culture

"one of the longest continuously running online galleries and e-zines dedicated to new media art, digital culture and philosophy; contributions by international artists and writers including Brian Eno, Yoko Ono, John Berger, Sean Cubitt, Susan Sontag..."

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

Research on Place and Space

by 1 other
huge 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."

Generation, translations and essays

translations and essays of key European cultural theorists, often Marxists; interestingly crafted site

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 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.

American Studies Electronic Crossroads

large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research

ArtLex Art Dictionary

by 3 others
search, arranged in alphabetical order, large number of terms