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.
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."
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.
Visual Rhetoric
extensive course materials
Seeing Is Believing?
another page of visual illusions with explanations
Digital Photography Techniques
brief description with visual examples of how depth of field, dynamic range, and field of view can evoke a hightened emotional response in a photo's viewer
October 2006
Peter Murphy's Panoramic VR Weblog
panoramic pictures and social context; often witty in their detail
Teaching Writing in the Space of Blackboard
Since many teachers use Blackboard, this is useful to them in analyzing how students negotiate aspects of that site and its technologies.
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