December 2006
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.
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
Poynter Online - Writing Tools
50 writing tools, a quick list; we can all benefit from these
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
Word Circuits
"This is a place for poetry and fiction born to pixels rather than the page--writing that's digital down to its bones." An excellent resource with both online poetry, often Flash poetry, and other links.
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
Digital Photography Techniques
brief description with visual examples of how depth of field, dynamic range, and field of view can evoke a hightened emotional response in a photo's viewer
Photoshop Tutorials - Free Photoshop tips and Tricks - PSLover.com
by 3 othersmany lilnks to how-to tutorials
Hack your way out of writer’s block
witty and perhaps even useful
October 2006
Peter Murphy's Panoramic VR Weblog
panoramic pictures and social context; often witty in their detail
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.
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