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PUBLIC MARKS with tags academic & design

01 December 2006

Art, Design, and Visual Thinking

by jlesage & 3 others
a basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin

24 November 2006

Writing Demonstrations

by jlesage
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.

22 November 2006

DIGITALSOULS.COM - new media art | philosophy | culture

by jlesage
"one of the longest continuously running online galleries and e-zines dedicated to new media art, digital culture and philosophy; contributions by international artists and writers including Brian Eno, Yoko Ono, John Berger, Sean Cubitt, Susan Sontag..."

20 November 2006

Conversations with Dina

by jlesage
post on how students did visual ethnography using Flickr and the tags people put there

ArtLex Art Dictionary

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

19 November 2006

Cabinet Magazine Online -

by jlesage
a quarterly journal of art, design, culture; partly playful, some art, some scholarly essays; good mix of specific reviews and overviews

18 November 2006

Early Visual Media

by jlesage & 1 other
pre-cinema, early photography, early film, early television; lots of visual examples and explanations

16 November 2006

The Eye Page

by jlesage
an exploration of eye structures in nature

Seeing Is Believing?

by jlesage
another page of visual illusions with explanations

Book Review of "Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization"

by jlesage
Filmmakers and writers need to be aware of the history and social practice "spoken" by spaces and places. This is about the politics of gardens.

11 November 2006

Overview Map "digital enlightenment: research"

by jlesage
a visual map, with links, of how to use metasites for knowledge acquisition, research, and reading online; author has other such maps on his site; useful for students as mode of presenting info and for info itself.

06 November 2006

howstuffismade.org

by jlesage
visual encyclopedia that documents manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.--summative photo essays produced by students guided by faculty

02 November 2006

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online

by jlesage & 56 others
You sign up, enter the name of a book, then find out what other folks who liked that book also liked; a tag cloud for the book leads to other books on this topic. Quite addictive, and I just used it to look at the info. around one book.

21 October 2006

Knowing Knowledge - a photoset on Flickr by George Siemens

by jlesage
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

18 October 2006

12 Principles of Web Writing and Design

by jlesage
from teacher Craig Stroupe, who has online many useful teaching tools across tech and cultural fields

17 October 2006

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