04 December 2006
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights - Yahoo! News
by jlesage
Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
03 December 2006
01 December 2006
Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society
by jlesage & 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
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
by jlesage & 3 others
a basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin
28 November 2006
A Virtual Library of Useful URLs - Subject Headings Arranged by Dewey
by jlesage
some of the best education Web sites in a Virtual Library arranged by the Dewey Decimal Classification System
27 November 2006
Mojiti-video commentary software
by jlesage & 11 others
useful 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
by jlesage
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
by jlesage
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 jlesage & 9 others
how 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
by jlesage
may 06 discussion of how delicious works; useful overview and collection of comments. PBS teachersouce is also worth visiting from time to time
21 November 2006
What Can We Do With Flickr? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
by jlesage
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
by jlesage
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
19 November 2006
(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
by jlesage
blog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint
Video History Project: Resources
by jlesage
information from/about practitioners and groups of videomakers; technical explanations of early video formats and equipment
18 November 2006
Incredible Art Lessons
by jlesage & 1 other
many 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
by jlesage
Site is a center of such studies; course list regularly updaged
Observations on film art and “Film Art”
by jlesage
blog by senior film scholars David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
16 November 2006
Sequence Analysis
by jlesage & 1 other
by a teacher, great handout for students on how to analyze a film sequence
lens culture: contemporary photography magazine
by jlesage & 4 others
Photographyy internationally: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, lyrical, personal, abstract, human, and street photography. Essays, interviews with photographers, reviews of exhibitions and photo books.
13 November 2006
Center for History and New Media
by jlesage & 1 other
extensive site, with resources about historical moments and syllabi, tools for Internet research, and projects undertaken by the Center
Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources | OEDb
by jlesage & 7 others
The invisible web, or deep web, is estimated to be 500 times bigger than the searchable web and comprises databases and results of specialty search engines that the popular search engines can't index.
12 November 2006
Free, Comprehensive Audio and Video Course
by jlesage
Television Production--A Free, Interactive Course in Studio and Field Production by Ron Whittaker, from cybercollege
