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Derek Gregory
web site of cultural geographer Derek Gregory, who has available major essays about the Iraq war and how the US misleads people about ethnic conflict.
Setting Guidelines for Discussion
how to use online discussion in teaching, perhaps in Blackboard: many good tips on mother site, including rubrics for evaluating grades; most teachers require a certain amount and quality of entries, and also grade them.
Of Two Minds When Making a Decision: Scientific American
We may make snap judgments, or mull things carefully. Possibly two kinds of thought: intuitive, based on past experience; and rational, rule-based, to evaluate intuition or come into play when decisions are difficult.
Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans - earth - 22 May 2008 - New Scientist Environment
Perhaps more forms of life beneath the surface than above it ... different and effective ways of surviving – ways that could be independent of light and oxygen. These forms of life could exist on other planets.
Stop Torture
law blog with news and legal opinions on activism against torture, especially by US; links
Invictus: A blog on U.S. Politics and the Fight Against Torture
Valtin, psychologist and key writer in anti-torture activism in US, has own blog here and also on DailyKos, where he details fights inside American Psychological Association against its current stance.
Detainee Interrogations, Psychologists, & Other Health Care Professionals
Kenneth S. Pope resigned APA over policy on psychologists participating in the planning or implementation of detainee interrogation. Here is his important, long bibliography on topic.
parameters of science
a survey of almost every aspect of science from the largest to smallest dimensions; brief explanations, definitions, many illustrations; very clearly written
"Gagging librarians is horrendous." The Internet V. FBI: Net Wins - John Battelle's Searchblog
"The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has withdrawn a secret demand that the Internet Archive, an online library, provide the agency with a user's personal information after the Web site challenged the records request in court. "
John Lye's Courses and Sources Pages
a guide to critical reading and writing, good for anyone writing on literature or the narrative arts, including film and storytelling
www.theory.org.uk Resources: Anthony Giddens
A brief introduction to Giddens' general approach, plus more detail on his ideas about self, gender and identity in modern societies; great mother site for culture and media theory
TRANSFORMATIONS
special issue 07 with a variety of applications of Benjamin's ideas and cultural/historical approach to current issues : "Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the Age of Global Culture"
The Five Phases of Flattening a Classroom (Techlearning blog)
teaching how to communicate online as a group, then with another class, then with larger audience; savvy about stages in teaching communicative behavior; I am interested in teaching public writing, its protocols, its etiquette.
University of Essex :: Course Materials :: Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Many courses in literature and film have lecture notes, readings, exam archives, etc. posted here. A model for a college department web site useful to students and others interested in the subject matter.
Literary Study at Univ. of Essex
many online resources for study of literature and literary theory, including lecture notes, texts online, sample exam questions, etc.
99 Resources to Research & Mine the Invisible Web - College Degree.com
tap into the invisible web, the sites that don't get indexed by broad search engines
darkmatter » Home
"interrogating contested issues of multiculture, while eschewing current orthodoxies"; postcolonial, race, cultural studies theory, with a focus on the politics of everdaylife
Stanford Digital Journalism Course / Stanford Digital Journalism Course
Howard Rheingold's course wiki with links to lots of good material online
The Ipod Hacker: 100 Ways to Use Your iPod to Learn and Study Better
first post of a new blog, and it has lots of information, plus links to other sites with more information; a site to keep an eye on
Michael Chanan
online essays by a major writer on documentary and on music; specialist also in Latin American cinema
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