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.
more fromwww.edtech.neu.edu
Music special: Five great auditory illusions - being-human - 24 February 2008 - New Scientist
part of a whole special issue on music and science; this essay takes up some things I had not thought of before, although some seem obvious when you thing about them; of use for media production
more fromwww.newscientist.com
Presentation Zen: The "Lessig Method" of presentation
overview of and links to various ways of using Powerpoint
more frompresentationzen.blogs.com
Looking for Good Art: Web Resources and Image Databases, Part 1
2004; in-depth study of how to look for art resources; one of my favorites is the New York Public Library collection, where you can order quality, framable, large photographic reproductions of anything you admire.
more fromwww.infotoday.com
Reading Online--A Tale of Differences: Comparing the Traditions, Perspectives, and Educational Goals of Critical Reading and Critical Literacy
compares two approaches to reading critically on the Internet, and how to teach that skill; "education is always a contextually situated, socially constructed, ideological practice"
more fromwww.readingonline.org
Pew Internet: Writing, Technology and Teens
4/28/08:"Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing [yet]... believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them."
more frompewinternet.org
Foreign Policy in Focus - A Think Tank Without Walls
progressive think tank, one of the few leftist ones in the US, with articles on many aspects of international politics
more fromwww.fpif.org
Learn 35+ Languages for Free in iTunes
one of the most popular kinds of audio podcasts
more fromwww.lifeclever.com
"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"The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has withdrawn a secret demand that the Internet Archive, an online library, provide the agency with a user's personal information after the Web site challenged the records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. "
more frombattellemedia.com
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
more fromwww.brocku.ca
CyberArts
After choosing a piece of artwork and researching the artist, the students create a “tableau vivant”, or “living picture”, image – one in which they dress up, pose for, and become the subject in the image.
more fromwwwf.countryday.net
Opinion: The top 25 overlooked and underrated features in Leopard
especially useful is archive mailbox, which lets you clear out some of the valuable emails you were saving in your mail program
more fromwww.computerworld.com
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
more fromwww.theory.org.uk
Andrea Polli: graduate course in audio production: sound environments
How does one define music, sound, noise, and silence; the social and political functions of these elements? Useful paths for both producers and listeners. Good online resources and links, stimulating ideas.
more fromwww.andreapolli.com
The Fischbowl
blog from high school teachers using Internet applications to teach complex writing and communications skills, often in multimodal, multimedia forms of presentation
more fromthefischbowl.blogspot.com
Dave Gray » dot info
brief, instructive videos on how visual can establish meaning and help thinking in age of complexity
more fromwww.davegray.info
The 101 most useful websites - Telegraph
interesting roundup from an UK perspective
more fromwww.telegraph.co.uk
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.
more fromwww.techlearning.com
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.
more fromcourses.essex.ac.uk
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.
more fromcourses.essex.ac.uk
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