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16 Jun 08

Sleep, Attention, and Memory: Not (Maybe) What You Thought-- Blogs Scientific American Community

"sleep can make memories more stable, so that they are more resistant to interference and decay"; and coffee-loaded all-night studying can make the information just slide away

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09 Jun 08

Should I Buy a Kindle? « Amazon Kindle Guide, Free Books & Resources

Lots of pros and cons and readers' reports summarized; some hitches you may not have thought of. Mothersite has good listing of how to get free ebooks in Kindle format or convert them to it.

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02 Jun 08

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

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28 May 08

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Powerpoint

the author's own ideas plus links to other major Powerpoint strategies; he says, and I agree, do not have things you will end up reading to audience; think about how to engage audience

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Photojojo » Unsharp Mask: How Do You Actually Use That Thing?

In Photoshop, you never want to use the Sharpen filter but rather the Unsharp Mask filter; here is an easy guide to how to use that wonderful tool.

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25 May 08

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.

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17 May 08

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

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16 May 08

Digital Photography Composition Tips

a collection of essays from Digital Photography School; commonsensical and good for beginners or those who want to advance

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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.

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29 Mar 08

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.

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28 Mar 08

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.

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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.

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NCTE - Reading and Writing on the Web

National Council of Teachers of English classroom exercises and resources to teach Internet evaluation and writing for the Web

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25 Mar 08

100s of Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter: Our Recession Special | Open Culture

organized by category; Open Culture, the mother site, is one of the best independent learning sites for tips and resources

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Gomestic

readers tips for all aspects of domestic life; well organized and easy to use site; interesting new ways to use household items and do tasks

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24 Mar 08

Technology Review: Blogs: Ed Boyden's blog: How to Think

people working in media and tech need to retool all their professional skills careerwise about every six months; this tells how to do that; one's cognitive framework has to be maximized for constant new learning

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