04 December 2006
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights - Yahoo! News
Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
03 December 2006
Main Page - Teaching Hacks Wiki
31 articles on instructional web technology
What to do!: Everything You Need to Teach and Learn Online
a good explanation of free tools, tested by user
01 December 2006
Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society
by 2 others"Our interests extend to the wondrous, the curious, the singular, the esoteric, the arcane, and the sometimes hazy frontier between the plausible and the implausible." a whacky collection
AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web
by 1 othernarrative+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"
Visual dictionary
by 3 othersjust what it says, a dictionary but in pictures; kids will love it; a good way for learning English as a second language
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
by 3 othersa basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin
Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus. Free online reference, research & homework help.
by 3 othersa look-up source for information
28 November 2006
A Virtual Library of Useful URLs - Subject Headings Arranged by Dewey
some of the best education Web sites in a Virtual Library arranged by the Dewey Decimal Classification System
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.
Mojiti-video commentary software
by 11 othersuseful for teachers making clips to analyze in class; "personalize any video with your story. With visual spotlights, you can narrate your personal videos, add captions or subtitles, or comment on any scene."
26 November 2006
MIT communications forum archive
the various programs are on many topics of media and mass communications; available in audio, video, or print format; good overview of contemporary media issues by academics and practitioners
activelearning strategies
a philosophy of education that relies on simulations, role plays, real world activities; practical tips and bibliography
24 November 2006
Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need
by 9 othershow to refine a topic and its searches; updated for web 2.0 and specialty searching; good for anyone starting to do Internet research on a topic and will take you to some previously unused search tools
TeacherSource | learning.now . Tag - You're Delicious! | PBS
may 06 discussion of how delicious works; useful overview and collection of comments. PBS teachersouce is also worth visiting from time to time
H2O Playlist: UDL and Web 2.0: Confronting the Drunk Librarian
considering Web 2.0 in the context of Internet useability for people with disabilities
22 November 2006
Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing - lifehack.org
by 22 otherssimple, intuitive, thought provoking tips that really work
21 November 2006
What Can We Do With Flickr? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
how to create hotspots with popup notes on Flickr. Very useful for image analysis and assignment requiring students to comment on social aspects or formal aspects of image; or to formally critique them.
20 November 2006
iberry.com -- The academic porthole
publicly available courseware (lecture notes, handouts, slides, tutorial material, exam questions, quizzes, videos, demonstrations etc) from the world's universities, colleges and other educational institutes; other educational resources
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
19 November 2006
(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
blog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint
Video History Project: Resources
information from/about practitioners and groups of videomakers; technical explanations of early video formats and equipment
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
RCCS: Course List of Cyberculture Studies
Site is a center of such studies; course list regularly updaged
