public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags identity & overviews

November 2006

Squidoo

by 1 other
social bookmarking portal lets users share expertise on some subject; room for author's comments and explanations; more discursive than delicious; less writing than a blog; see "Visual Thinking," also "Ephemeral Films"

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

SocioSite

a very large sociology site from the University of Amsterdam; of particular interest are a section on web sociology and one on famous sociology; site is full of both explanations and links to other full text articles

October 2006

Knowing Knowledge - a photoset on Flickr by George Siemens

for those interested in infoaesthetics, this set of 57 images about aspects of knowledge is a stimulating philosophical exercise and a way to ask students how they might have made an image of similar interacting concepts

Jahn: Homepage

major figure in narrative theory has much work available online

September 2006

IDEA Photographic | After Modernism

a useful and attractive comparison of modernist and postmodernist photography, with explanations and thematic organizations

August 2006

Digital Aesthetics

site to accompany Sean Cubitt's book Digital Aesthetics