public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags research & definitions

01 December 2006

AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web

by 1 other
narrative+history+pictures+encyclopedia; "safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest"

artists and art...the-artists.org

by 1 other
extended visual, biographical, and textual database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists

Gene Pool

by 2 others
a science game: "a virtual Darwinian aquarium .. you initiate a primordial soup, and .. check up on what Virtual Mother Nature is up to - about every 15 min. (or every few days)"

21 November 2006

Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview

longstanding and well maintained site by Internet humanities pioneer, George P. Landow. Organized by country and by conceptual approaches. Courses linked to. Useful internal search engine.

Research on Place and Space

by 1 other
huge portal site, across disciplines; "...other terms are sometimes used in place of place, such as home, dwelling, milieu, territory, and of course, space. None of these, though, are necessarily equivalent to the notion of place."

20 November 2006

American Studies Electronic Crossroads

large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research

ArtLex Art Dictionary

by 3 others
search, arranged in alphabetical order, large number of terms

Bruce B. Janz Home Page

very large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy

18 November 2006

Dr Daniel Chandler's UWA Home Page

extensive website of visual semiotician, with course outlines, online papers, and an interesting links page

16 November 2006

Philosophy and Contemporary Culture

by 1 other
extensive links page for cultural studies, theory, web resources, major figures by a teacher

Visual thinking school on Squidoo

by 1 other
basic concepts broken down into useful small steps, with many visual examples to guide process. Web 2.0 in that it provides for interaction and author's introduction to sections.

illusions.html

a page of links to visual illusions and their explanations; kids love these

03 November 2006

09 October 2006

HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!

by 4 others
Check out how blogs work, how MySpace works, how DSL works, how digital cameras work; also how to buy....