November 2006
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Mojiti-video commentary software
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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."
Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University
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Geography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.
What Can We Do With Flickr? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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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.
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
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large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research
Incredible Art Lessons
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many art lessons from preschool through college; lots of stimuli for the imagination, lots of detail if you are a parent or teacher
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Sequence Analysis
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by a teacher, great handout for students on how to analyze a film sequence
Low Probability of Racoons - Hypertext and Flash animated poems
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uses the duration of video to make kinetic poetry that has a narrative in the words and beyond them; nice example for students of simple form with complex effects
The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem
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video by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition
Multimedia - From Wagner to Virtual Reality
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attractive web site dealing with concepts, pioneers, images, theory
Teaching Art in the Context of Everyday Life
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a useful essay for all production teachers who want students to see the world around them anew
October 2006
Making Sense of Evidence
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strategies for analyzing online primary materials, with interactive exercises and a guide to traditional and online sources--many kinds of historical materials discussed; useful in most teaching areas
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Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way
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always looking for new ways to interest students in certain kinds of projects involving visual narrative, autobiography, documentary
Lesson Plans for Digital Storytelling
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this is a lesson plan that could be adapted for different ages or kinds of classes, e.g., composition or video production or narrative arts
July 2006
Space Time Travel - Relativity Visualized
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Online papers, images, movies and paper models of the theory of relativity
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