Academic Integrity
- UVM’s Academic Integrity Policy
- The University of Bergen in Norway Explains It All to You In Song
Blog Resources:
Creativity, Relaxation, and Productivity
- Festo AirPenguins (watch the video)
- The 9 Greatest Dystopian Music Videos of All Time
- I imagine this is how an artificial intelligence would “watch” Blade Runner
- Catalog Living
- LifeHacker explains how to create the ultimate exercise playlist
- Use the Rule of 200 to start and finish writing projects
- Using Breathing to focus before class
- Want to hear what your favorite Sci-Fi TV & movie themes sound like slowed down 800%? Of course you do! io9 has your fix right here (Some of these might make excellent studying, working, or meditation music.)
- “How to Rebuild Your Attention Span & Focus“
- “How to Deal with Distractions in a Web-Workers’ World“
Formatting/Style Guides Online
Diana Hacker has published a number of great guides related to writing essays and documenting sources etc. It appears that her entire book is not online. Check out this section of her website for information on using MLA style:
There are many other sources online for similar information. Here are a few others that might be of help:
- http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
- http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocMLA.html
- http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/writer_resources/citation_styles/mla/mla.htm
This site deals with how to cite online sources of information.
I focus here on MLA formatting and publishing conventions because that is the style used most commonly in English Studies. English 001, however, is an odd duck in that it’s taught by English instructors to non-English majors. This means, in part, that the formatting and publishing conventions that English 001 students will use most often in their academic and post-college life is almost certainly not going to be the MLA’s.
Here are links to online style guides in other formats:
- Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide
- The American Psychological Association (APA) Style Guide
- Council of Science Editors (CSE) Style Guide
Though most writing guides now have formatting rules for writing online, here is a guide developed specifically for online writing:
Mental Mapping/Flow Charting:
- Bubbl.us
- Gliffy
- Best4c
- FreeMind
- LifeHacker introduces us to BBC Pinball — a mind-mapping collection of mini-grames/programs
- Prezi
- Prezi Models (to read & copy & be inspired by
Music/Sound Hacks:
- JamStudio Loop Maker
- Bill Brown Music
- LifeHacker: Use Royalty-Free music from Incompetech in your next project
Pedagogy
- Tired of FaceBook? Try TeachBook
- ProfHacker academic/pedagogy blog
- Got a minute to spare? Invest it wisely by reading ProfHacker, a blog about teaching
- ProfHacker: “How to Avoid Being a Jerk in the Classroom”
- ProfHacker explains how to Optimally Assign Students to Small Groups (hint: it involves math)
Photoshop/GIMPShop Hacks:
- GIMP – the open-source alternative to PhotoShop
- How to create your own Photosynths
- Removing Backgrounds from Photos in Photoshop
- Removing Backgrounds from Photos in Gimpshop
- Photoshop Movie Poster Effects
- Cloud Canvas (a web-based HTML-5 browser graphic editing/creation online web-app)
PowerPoint Hacks:
- Embed YouTube Clips in Offline PowerPoint Presentations
- You may not want to use PowerPoint at all; why not try 280slides instead?
Rhetoric Resources
Here are some excellent online resources on classical rhetorical terms and history.
- Silva Rhetoricae The Forest of Rhetoric
- A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples
- Aristotle’s Rhetoric
- Aristotle’s Poetics
Technology
- Tim Carmody writes for The Atlantic: “10 Reading Revolutions Before E-Books”
- The Curfew, a new dystopian reality-game sponsored by the UK’s Channel 4
- Portal (the game) presents an “enduring question”
- How to RIP DVD Clips
- Omeka is a program that helps you to store and organize large amounts of media. Here’s an introduction to Omeka, and here’s a post about teaching with Omeka