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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tag tools

21 November 2006

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

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 others
such things as i-pod handouts for folks who get one as a christmas gift

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

Visual Anthropology Papers

many full text papers available from visualnathropology.net

MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine

by 1 other
perhaps an improvement over Rotten Tomatoes, also gives links to blogs that dealt with a given film; worth a try

Storytelling in Flickr on Flickr

various modes of flickr storytelling are described, and the keywords needed to get to them

19 November 2006

Poynter Online - Writing Tools

50 writing tools, a quick list; we can all benefit from these

Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide

by 79 others
blog; always something interesting here about software or web sites that could be useful

Video History Project: Resources

information from/about practitioners and groups of videomakers; technical explanations of early video formats and equipment

18 November 2006

Communication Studies Resources: The University of Iowa

one of the largest set of links, updated regularly, to all aspects of communication; many political themes; a wide range of disciplinary approaches included; highly recommended

Incredible Art Lessons

by 1 other
many art lessons from preschool through college; lots of stimuli for the imagination, lots of detail if you are a parent or teacher

JEP - The Journal of Electronic Publishing

many of the past issues were on thematic concerns; ever of greater importance in academic and knowledge communities is the how-to of electronic publishing

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

Sequence Analysis

by 1 other
by a teacher, great handout for students on how to analyze a film sequence

15 November 2006

Video History Project: Resources - Collections & Distribution Links

documents video art and community television, as it evolved in rural and urban New York State, and across the US