03 December 2006
other people's stories
Every story on OPS is a story a contributor heard from someone else. These stories have been overheard and misheard, told and re-told and sometimes refined over time.
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.
A List Apart: Primer
by 3 otherstips on a variety of aspects of web sites for new designers and web site owners
Edward Tufte home site
by 4 otherslots here from a major figure in information graphics; especially interesting are many entries in section, "Ask E.T."
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
by 3 othersa basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin
28 November 2006
A Research Guide for Students - Site Map
a very large portal for students and teachers, including how to search, formatting of research papers, and many content links
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.
24 November 2006
Writing Demonstrations
interactive demonstrations of Conducting Electronic Searches; useful both for the information contained and as a demo of web design and writing instructional media in a library context; the larger site is a resource for writers.
22 November 2006
Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing - lifehack.org
by 22 otherssimple, intuitive, thought provoking tips that really work
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
Visual Rhetoric
extensive course materials
19 November 2006
Poynter Online - Writing Tools
50 writing tools, a quick list; we can all benefit from these
The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson
entire book online
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
16 November 2006
Sequence Analysis
by 1 otherby a teacher, great handout for students on how to analyze a film sequence
Seeing Is Believing?
another page of visual illusions with explanations
14 November 2006
Word Circuits
"This is a place for poetry and fiction born to pixels rather than the page--writing that's digital down to its bones." An excellent resource with both online poetry, often Flash poetry, and other links.
13 November 2006
Guerrilla Filmmaking 101
the nitty-gritty of no-budget filmmaking, good on deflating romantic notions often held by first-timers
EasyRGB - The first RGB and COLOR search engine on the Web!
by 11 otherspractical suggestions about real life colors matching computer generated RGBs.
11 November 2006
Zensufi Park
Zen/sufi stories help those with writer's block or pinned down to traditional narrative arcs
Fifty Ways to Take Notes
by 31 othersboth online and offline, include clippings or your own musings or both
06 November 2006
fresh styles for web designers
2001: interesting range of inspirations
