04 December 2006
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights - Yahoo! News
Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
01 December 2006
Lateral Thinking Problems - Preconceptions
The site poses problems in lateral or logical thinking, from easy to hard, with both hints and answers. Great party conversation and something kids will like.
27 November 2006
Visuarios: broadcast your skills
how-to videos or, more commonly, audio/slideshows; useful rhetorically for both technical writing and instructional video learning; web2.0 sharing of video that is perhaps instructionally more useful than YouTube.
Mojiti-video commentary software
by 11 othersuseful for teachers making clips to analyze in class; "personalize any video with your story. With visual spotlights, you can narrate your personal videos, add captions or subtitles, or comment on any scene."
Imagining the Internet
by 1 otherpopular site from Pew Internet Project; allows people to make predictions, read predictions from the 90s; nice for kids
26 November 2006
Links to cultural studies syllabi
from the Cultural Studies L site, a listerv and a source of other resources as well
activelearning strategies
a philosophy of education that relies on simulations, role plays, real world activities; practical tips and bibliography
22 November 2006
Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing - lifehack.org
by 22 otherssimple, intuitive, thought provoking tips that really work
Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.
21 November 2006
Adding meaning and value to information
what we do with information that might make it useful and desirable to others
Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University
Geography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.
GEO 101 World Human Geography
very evocative discussion guides for students doing exercises in and thinking about a wide variety of physical and cultural spaces; writers can gets lots of ideas from this course and its notes
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
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
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research
18 November 2006
Incredible Art Lessons
by 1 othermany art lessons from preschool through college; lots of stimuli for the imagination, lots of detail if you are a parent or teacher
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 otherby a teacher, great handout for students on how to analyze a film sequence
14 November 2006
Low Probability of Racoons - Hypertext and Flash animated poems
uses the duration of video to make kinetic poetry that has a narrative in the words and beyond them; nice example for students of simple form with complex effects
The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem
video by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition
11 November 2006
Knowing Knowledge
useful summary by George Siemens of his ideas from new book; educators need to rethink all ideas about knowledge, education, and learning for young people growing up in the Internet era
09 November 2006
Teaching resources links
a wide variety of intriguing paths to follow, listed alphabetically; a interesting way to set up a links page, although I prefer annotations
06 November 2006
Multimedia - From Wagner to Virtual Reality
attractive web site dealing with concepts, pioneers, images, theory
