December 2006
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights - Yahoo! News
Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
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.
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.
Imagining the Internet
by 1 otherpopular site from Pew Internet Project; allows people to make predictions, read predictions from the 90s; nice for kids
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
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.
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.
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research
Sequence Analysis
by 1 otherby a teacher, great handout for students on how to analyze a film sequence
Multimedia - From Wagner to Virtual Reality
attractive web site dealing with concepts, pioneers, images, theory
Teaching Art in the Context of Everyday Life
a useful essay for all production teachers who want students to see the world around them anew
Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 3
by 1 otherOct 06, review of software potentially useful to students and teachers; overview useful for folks interested in thinking about Internet and education in new ways
October 2006
Dr. Helena Sheehan / Home Page
much material on her media and society courses, including powerpoint lectures
barclaybarrios.com: course archive
"Archived course Web sites presented "as is," including student work good and bad, sections left un-updated, and typos." Attractive and useful pedagogical use of Internet in teaching.
June 2006
SupportBlogging!
Fights current backlash against social networking sites, especially in terms of educational policies for k-12 schools and districts.
2 Cents Worth
changing nature of information now
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