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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.
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"
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
Introduction to New Historicism
broad, multi-layered website, of interest to those in cultural studies, film studies, literary studies, and other areas of the humanities; some good summaries of work of major thinkers
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… » The Best Science Websites For Students & Teachers — 2007
not only is this good for teaching and learning science, but Ferlazzo uses it to teach English to immigrants, giving them a process to do, discuss with each other, and write about.
CHNM Essays--Sending Your Courses into the Blogosphere: An Introduction for “Old People”
on how a college teacher found that his students did not take email or a class discussion site seriously, but responded well to blogging
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Home Page
very large set of links, in many kinds of categories, useful in teaching and learning
Modern Poetry - Open Yale Courses
can get downloads of course pack, audio or video/Flash downloads of lectures; one of the best designs, simple and clean, for online courses I have seen
Why schools should exclusively use free software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
in opposition, parents want kids to learn proprietary software, like Windows and Word, for future in career. I support the free side, and OLPC, but it's an important current debate and folks should know the arguments pro and con.
Welcome! Ultimate storytelling guide
especially useful are sections on course material and oral history
PBS Teachers | learning.now . One Story, 50 Tools, Infinite Possibilities | PBS
background to how Alan Levine of CogDogRoo created a story about his dog, Dominoe, in fifty different ways, using as many web applications; it's a model of contributing to knowledge of how to use the Internet well for creative projects
Digital Rhetoric
an interesting argument that says college writing courses should also teach digital literacy, in its broadest sense, and in narrower sense, writing for the screen, including basic image presentation skills. Attractive site.
History Toolkit
short essays designed to help the beginning historian conduct and organize his or her own historical research; include forms for you to print and use in your own research. Good section on doing and evaluating oral history.
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