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.
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.
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
by 3 othersa basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin
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
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.
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.
Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing - lifehack.org
by 22 otherssimple, intuitive, thought provoking tips that really work
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
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
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
Guerrilla Filmmaking 101
the nitty-gritty of no-budget filmmaking, good on deflating romantic notions often held by first-timers
Fifty Ways to Take Notes
by 31 othersboth online and offline, include clippings or your own musings or both
October 2006
BBC - Writersroom - Scriptsmart
free screenwriting formatting tool to use with Microsoft Word; I have not tried it and do not know how well it works.
July 2006
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