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- YouTube - A Girl Like Me Young African American girls talking about the stereotypes they live with.
- YouTube - Silent Beats 5 minute video on race; good editing, powerful images.
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- Across the Great Divide: Graphic Novels Looks like an interesting blog with plenty of potential class material.
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- Rhetoric and Composition - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks This wiki textbook has some good material, although not genre-based, and perhaps ironically, going online resulted in a text-heavy, image-light textbook. Maybe what this work needs are some videos, some flash demonstrations, more visual language.
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- i d e a n t: Tag Literacy An essay that doesn't precisely offer instructions for using delicious, but it offers some good general discussion of "tag literacy."
- Google at ALA: Google Book Search and Google Scholar A 25 minute long video / talk explaining how to search Google Book and Google Scholar.
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- Writing Center A clear description of how to write a free-standing academic summary.
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- Michael L. Kent, Ph.D. Professor Kent has published on information literacy topics like the value of Google Scholar and how to evaluate sources. He has pdfs to articles on his website.
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- Advertising Age - MediaWorks - Why Web Video is the New 30-Second Spot A potentially relevant article for 120 or 357.
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- T4 - Pay Attention A thought provoking video that cites sources at the bottom of slides. an excellent example of the kind of video commentary I hope students might create at the end of 120.
Links for the day
- See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign An interesting news story about who edits wikipedia, and revealed through a piece of software called "Wikipedia scanner." Some edits seem innocent enough, the article suggests, but others are obviously self-interested. The story also reports that even t
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- YouTube - nirvana - smells like teen spirit The original video.
- YouTube - Rockstar -nickelback Literal video, but good clear images, nice pace.
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- dg28.com - photographer education This site looks like a wealth of information about photography. The short slide show that runs on this page provides many, many examples of great profile photographs, lit in many different ways, taken from many different angles, scenes set to be interest
Links for the day
- Photography Composition Articles: Photography Tutorial - Composition. A concise, clear tutorial on photographic compositions. The author covers the rule of thirds, diagonals, cropping (what to leave in and what to cut out), portrait vs. landscape, and viewpoint. The photoinf.com website has additional tutorials for those
- BibMe - the fully automatic & free bibliography maker (MLA, APA & Chicago) This bibliography maker looks mildly useful, but its own database is not deep, and when I entered a URL, it had a lot of trouble making sense of the USA Today article I wanted to cite. Users will need to know most of the pertinent information in order to
- 50 Tools that can Improve your Writing Skills - Dumb Little Man I haven't read all 50 tools, but this list has some great ideas and clear explanations of some pretty common strategies. The list seems to be compiled for journalists, rather than students, so be aware that the list favors the mid-level or journalistic s
The Official (for now) Home Page of Kevin Brooks, Associate Professor of English, North Dakota State University.
Working at the interface of literacy and electracy, print culture and visual culture, text and image, visual and acoustic space. What better way to hold these things together than SuprGlu?
Online Publications
"Changing the Ground of Graduate Education: Wireless Laptops Bring Stability, not Mobility to Graduate Teaching Assistants." (Abstract only.) Going Wireless."The Classical Trivium: A Heuristic and Heuretic for New Media and Digital Communication." Kairos 11.3 (2007).
"What's Going On? Listening to Music, Composing Videos." Computers and Composition Online. 2006.
"Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs." Into the Blogosphere, 2004.
"The McLuhan Retrieval Reviewed." Kairos 9.1 (2004).
Online Projects, in Progress
"Career Compass and Multimedia Lab: The MyStory as Pedagogical, Problem-finding Genre." Presented at the North Dakota Humanities Summit, Oct. 2006."Strangers in a Strange Land: A MEmorial for the Lost Boys of the Sudan*." Presented at Computers and Writing 2007.
"Understanding Weblogs: A Visua-Verbal Probe." Presented at the Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing Conference. Reviewed by Catherine Hooper (slightly different title).
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